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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 87, No. 125
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 14, 1977
Faculty track races via mail
See story page eight
KU Senate allocates $290,276 for special projects
and JOHN WHITESIDES Staff Reporters
The Student Senate last night completed its budget for next year by allocating $280 and acting on the budget recommendations to the Services and Academic Affairs committees.
The Senate approved the recommendations of the Culture, Sports and Communications committees Tuesday night.
The Senate made several changes in the Student Services Committee's recommendations. The Women's Coalition has advocated for a $700 allocation of $700 for a self-defense
brochure, bringing its total allocation to $1,770.
Mike Harper, StudEx chairman, told the Senate he had found a group in Kansas City, Mo., that printed the same type of brochure and would reprint it for the Women's Association. Mr. Harper printed an insert demonstrating self-declaration positions and procedures for another $125.
The Senate also passed an amendment giving $700 from unallocated funds to Kansas Environmental Services to keep it operating on a trial basis next semester.
The Student Services Committee had recommended not funding the program, which provides weather forecasts, because of a budget shortfall. The service to the student body was underfunded.
The service is manned by meteorology graduate students and currently has a dial-in service with KJHK radio. The group is JKHK's only weather service, though the station can receive weather reports from the Associated Press.
LARRY COSGROVE, founder of the service and student senator, told the Senate that the funds were essential to the program's suvival.
"If we don't get them, we're dead," he said. "There's the same mockery owl still叫."
year. New programs need to be given a break."
Some Senate members argued that the service duplicated other available weather services and would benefit only those looking for it and not the entire student body.
Steve Owens, Salina junior, disagreed. "I think we're being too hard on this group in particular," Owens said. "We fund other groups that benefit only members of our community, provides experience and training for methadone students and should be funded."
THE AMENDMENT passed, and the Student Services recommendations were passed after defeat of a motion to send the budget requests of the Women's Coalition
and the Commission on the Status of Women to the Finance and Auditing Committee to
The budget recommendations of the Academic Affairs committee were passed as presented. Another bill allocating $475 of unallocated funds to three groups under the jurisdiction of the Academic Affairs Committee also passed.
The additional allocations were $75 to the Undergraduate Philosophy Club, making its total allocation $165; $250 to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for a total of $321; and $150 to Blacks in Communication for a total of $350.
The bill would restore funding for requests the Academic Affairs Committee requested to cut to meet its allocation limit. The Senate thought the requests were needed.
THE UNDERGRADUATE Philosophy Club would be funded the additional £75 to pay for two printings of its journal, and the additional money had allocated money for only one printing.
The additional $250 for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics would allow the group to take trips to the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation plant in St. Louis and the Boeing Company plant in Wichita.
Blacks in Communication would receive an additional $150 to print a brochure ex-closure for their local radio station.
The Senate defeated two amendments to the bill. The first would have provided an additional $150 to the Association of Women Engineers to pay postage on newsletters.
See ALLOCATIONS page three
the Rev. Richard Taylor leads the Kansas Dry Forces' fight against liquor by the drink
Taylor shows good record for dry forces
Note: This is the first of two articles on liquor by the drink in Kansas.
By STEVE FRAZIER
Contributing Writer
Contributing Writer
TOPEKA-The man at the top of the stair in W. 21st W. St. smiled.
Many say his work is the main reason Kansas is without liquor by the drink.
—A repeal of the prohibition of liquor being on board for the kill twice in the *House of Coke*
— A bill to allow the sale of 3.2 beer in private clubs after midnight on Sundays was sponsored by the Conservative Party.
His supporters cheer, and his opponents acknowledge his reputation as one of the leaders in this movement.
"This session we whipped 'em on everything." Taylor said.
Some of his detractors say he is a malicious tyrant who bullies lawmakers against relaxed law loraws. Others say he is by monopoly-minded private club owners.
—An extension of the time during on-screen
watching in tavernas to 1 a.m. during Daylight
Saving Time.
One opponent, on the floor of the Kauzas nominated him as "sack bobster" of the team.
THE MAN GRINDED as he dodged assessment of his personal power and denied charges of using intimidation as a lobbying tactic, but the biggest smile broke across his face as he reviewed another perfect record.
It was April 8, and the Rev. Richard Taylor Jr., executive director of the Kansas United Dry Forces, could feel safe that the two leaders had been earlier in both houses of the Kansas Legislature meant success. The legislature would reconvene April 27 for final consideration of bills now in conference lawsuits against major laws wouldn't be among those bills.
A Senate concurrent resolution to amend the Kansas Constitution to provide for liquor by the drink by county option was killed in a Senate committee.
TAYLOR, $2, IS a seasoned professional. He knows what his opponents say about him and he often answers their charges by saying "I've already answered that," as he
A bill to allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages in National Guard armories was passed by the Senate but killed in the House.
A Senate proposal for city-option liquor by the bill was killed on the Senate floor. — A Senate chairman drinks in restaurants seating more than 10 persons was killed on the Senate floor.
springs from his chair to retrieve from one of the file cabinets lining his office walls yet another article, clipping or newsletter that explains his position.
"You can keep this," he says, and adds the specially printed material to the already furnished book.
Taylor will then supplement his answers to well-practiced phrases that echo statements in the text.
WHILE AT Wichita, Taylor served on the board of directors for the United Dry Forests. The board comprises representatives from several church denominations, the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Prohibition Party. The United Dry
season "agreed with me, that you honor the players who have finished the game by giving the game your best as long as you have time on the clock."
The legislature may provide for the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in certain areas. Subject to the foregoing, the Legislature may regulate, license and tax the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and may regulate the possession and transportation of intoxicating liquors. The open saloon shall be and is hereby forever prohibited. Kansas Constitution
THE FEW QUESTIONS that seem to catch him off-guard are answered after some hesitation and will be referred to again until Taylor is satisfied he has answered them. "No comment" isn't in his vocabulary.
the Kansas Issue, the United Dry Process
heritage church, 60,000 Kansas
heritage churches four miles
Taylor, born in Dwight, grew up in Enterprise, near Abilene. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor of Dame University and served as a gunnery officer aboard a U.S. Navy patrol boat
AFTER EIGHT YEARS at Salina and another eight years in Concordia, Taylor was transferred to the University Methodist Church near Wichita State University. There, after a 1970 plane crash that killed 22 men and fans, he met fierce his sermon, "Life is a Football Game," which he delivered at a memorial service for the players.
"Life is like a football game," he said,
"and the game has an end. Now when the game ends, and I walk off the field, I get to meet the coach face to face.
He left his job as a diesel research engineer with Fairbanks-Morse in Beloit, Wis., to enter the ministry. He received his theology degree from Drew University in Madison, N.J., and returned to Kansas to serve as a Methodist minister in Salina.
"If there are players who still have time on the clock, they must continue to give the game their very best, even if some of their biddies are off the field."
Taylor said the surviving WSU players who voted to continue the 1970 football season.
In 1968, the United Dry Forces board of directors asked Taylor to be executive director and lobbyist for them, but he declined.
Kansas Constitution, section 10 of article 15
Forces also go by the name Kansers for Life at its Best, which Taylor describes as "a union of users and nonusers who refuse to be pushers."
"See, lots of people think I fought and clawed to get their exclaimed position," he said. "I turned it down once. But the second time (in late 1970), my bishop said, 'Dick, maybe
God needs you in Topeka at this special time in your ministry."
TAYLOR'S BISHOP appointed him to his present position in July 1971. Taylor is appointed to his post each year for another one-year term.
However, it was in 1970 when liquor by the drink was on the state-wide ballot, and Taylor was not yet officially head of the United Dry Forces, that he met State Sen. Norma Gaar, R-Westwood, and one of the leading supporters of liquor by the drink.
Gaar was the senator who, in 1975, was quoted as saying "I dedicate to you, Richard Taylor, the title of sick lobbist by a letter that Taylor was prompted by a letter written by Kenneth Carlat, Topeka that Taylor had sent and to all Kansas legislators.
CARLATS LETTER said, in part, "To you, Senator Norman Gaar, a prime mover in this legislation, I dedicate to you a very close friend, Ed. at the age of 22, married father of two children, killed by an automobile driven by a woman drunk out of her mind."
Taylor said he based his opposition to relaxed law laws on the assumption that strict regulation reduced consumption of alcohol. Taylor cited a 1974 HEW report that says Kansas per capita consumption of wine and distilled spirits is less than half the amount in Missouri. That Kansas should keep laws that prohibit liquor the drink, sales to those under 21 years.
See DRY FORCES page ten
Part-time ombudsman to channel complaints
Persons grappling with the complexities of the University of Kwaasan will soon have access to a new research facility.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
told SenEx yesterday that the University
would have an ombudsman starting next
fall.
The ambushman, according to the University Senate's Rules and Regulations, will aid members of the University committee by providing them with a lot of know where to go to solve them.
The ambudsman will direct students, faculty and staff to the proper channels within the University structure where special grievances can be dealt with.
ALTHOUGH THE ambassador won't have the authority to take disciplinary or legal action, he will have direct access to all administrative officials. This will establish a link between anyone who has a special problem or complaint and the established system of procedures for solving University-related problems and complaints.
KU never has had a faculty ombudsman. Deanell Tachia, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Campus Grievances, said yesterday that the primary objective behind such an effort was to “make some order” out of the complex system of grievance procedures.
The Advisory Committee on Campus Grievances currently is working on the department's request for a referral.
TACHA SAID that a complete description and set of qualifications for the job would be finished late next week. At that time, the committee will solicit applications from faculty members for the ombudsman position, she said.
Basic qualifications for the position outlined in the Senate's Rules and Regulations include "a comprehensive knowledge of University organization and procedures, and at least six years previous service on the University faculty."
Tacha said that it would be essential that the ambulanceman have a 'good working relationship' with the medical staff.
The job probably would be part-time, according to Tacha, allowing the faculty member to continue work within his own department.
Shankel said the ombudsman would be paid about $8,000 a year. The funds will come from KU's increased enrollment this year, which has allowed the administration to add new positions, including the ombudsman position, within the University.
ELDON FIELDS, chairman of SenEx,
said the University Council and SenEx had been working on the creation of an ombudsman's position for nearly two years.
Chancellor Archie Dykes and Shankel had been hesitant in the past to endorse the idea of having an ambassador, and early last fall they told SenEx that an ambassador was unnecessary because of the University's elaborate grievance procedures.
But Shankel said yesterday after the attack that killed Dykes and Dykes had been convinced that KU was not a terrorist.
"We just wanted to make sure that the patient system dealing with grievance matters."
Watson's job meeting topic
The Lawrence City Commission has scheduled an executive session for 3 p.m. today to discuss the job performance of Buford Watson, city manager.
The meeting is closed to the public and the press.
Final consideration of requested parking fee increases at the University of Kansas will be discussed at the Kansas Board of Regents meeting tomorrow in Pittsburgh
Complaints about city services heard during the recent city commission election campaign are thought to be the cause of Watson's evaluation.
Regents agenda includes parking fee, sabbaticals
Authorization of the proposal, which was presented to the Regents at last month's meeting, would boost yearly parking fees by as much as $15 at the KU Medical Center and as much as $10 on the Lawrence campus.
The proposal is one of 12 concerning KU on the Regents agenda. The monthly meeting will be at Kansas State College at Pittsburg.
Representatives from all seven Regents schools will attend the meeting.
THE KU administration will be represented by Chancellor Archie Dykes;
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor;
Keith Nichter, director of business and
financial affairs; Max Lucas, director of
student life; and Steve Leben,
student body president.
Besides the parking fee increase request, KU will ask that the Regents approve an upgrade to the library's schedule, the construction of a $24,000 tunnel running under the site of the new law school building to the satellite union; and recommendations for sabbaticals and promotions.
KU ALSO will request that nine kU professors receive emeritus status and that the thermodynamics laboratory be named KU urata, professor of chemical engineering.
See REGENTS page eight
Artwork adorns museum doorway
Bv CARLCEDER
Staff Renorter
For the first time since coming to the University of Kansas in 1963, the stone tympany of the Lamentation over Christ is seen, under an arch over a doorway.
It stood for centuries over the entrance to a Spanish church and last week was removed from storage at the Museum of Art at Spooner Hall and placed over a doorway behind the yard of the new Helen Foresman Spencer Museum, which will open January 1978.
The doorway of the new museum was specially designed to accommodate this particular room.
THE TYMPANUM (an architectural term for sculpture in the arch above a portal) weighs nearly 3,000 pounds and is seven feet long.
It is a Pieta, which literally means
"pity" and is a term applied to artistic representations of Mary holding the crown.
The sculpture, which is divided into three sections, dates back to the beginning of the 16th century and shows elements of both Medieval and Renaissance styles. The subject of the Lamentation over Christ was popular among Medieval artists.
Betsy Broun, acting curator of graphic arts at KU's Museum of Art, said Tuesday that the deaths of the costumes suggested a possible connection to Western European country, or Burgundy, as region in France. The figures are contained in a rounded Renaissance arc rather than a pointed Gothic one, which indicates that the figures were a late Gothic early Eriaden period.
"THE SENSITIVE modeling of Christ's anatomy and drapery shows the artist to create a sense of depth."
BUT THE POSSIBILITY of La Armedicina as a site for the tympanum has been both supported.
Supporters say the dates of the work on the church match a possible date for the bishop.
The central figures in the Lamentation are Mary and Christ, with the additional figures of Mary Magdalene, St. John, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
Although the origin of the tympanum is uncertain, some say it came from the ruined Monastery of Santa Maria de la Reina in the Mount Montel Monte, Spain, which was built aguard the
the figure," Braun said, "and the artist has arranged all the figures so they could be clearly viewed from below. The heads of the figures at the top all project strongly forward, and the body is tilted forward to make it clearable to the spectator standing beneath it."
They also say that the measurements of the tympanum at KU are very close to the measurements of the space where a tympanum was set at La Armilla Monastery.
Arguments against La Armedilla as the site of the tympanum say the region is so isolated that the sculpture is almost too fine for it.
REGARDLESS OF THE origine of the
condition, with little damage.
Brou says it is extremely rare for a University museum to have such a monumental and important piece of Medieval sculpture.
"Medieval objects that are available today are smaller, more portable objects," she said. "KU is extremely fortunate to have the imposing work of art in their collection."