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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 87, No. 124
Cubs arm bands to honor Wrigley
Wednesday, April 13, 1977
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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$1.50 fee, move to stop women's financing pass
Bv LINDA STEWART
and JOHN WHITESIDES Staff Reporters
A $1.50 increase in the student activity fee and a resolution calling for an end to Student Senate funding of the women's intercollegiate athletics program after this year were approved last night by the Student Senate.
The Senate also approved the use of up to $80,000 of unallocated Senate funds for
improvements in recreational facilities and okayed the budget allocations of the Sport Department.
The Senate will meet again tonight to consider the budget recommendations of the Academic Affairs and Student Services committees.
The student activity fee increase was approved after little discussion by the parents. The fee is for students each semester to $11.00. The fee increase would provide for maintaining the
current number of open hours at Robinson
Gymnasium new year and improving
facilities.
The $60,000 allocation from unallocated funds would also be used for improvements to recreational facilities, such as the lawns and tennis courts and the resourcing of intramural fields.
Steve Leben, student body president, explained that the Senate now had only 37 seats. "They're not going to vote," he said.
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Watson's job to be judged
By JOHN MUELLER Staff Reporter
City commissioners will meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow in closed session to discuss the job performance of Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager.
"PEOPLE NOTICE it every day. They
The commissioners haven't publicly announced that they plan to discuss Watson's performance during the closed session. But one commissioner said yesterday morning that Watson's actions as city manager had necessitated the session.
Arersinger, the commissioner said, was unhappy with the low priority Watson allegedly had given sniper pickups. She "really gave him (Watson) hell," the commissioner said. "Situation is still way down on the issue, and I think it sterily important.
Commissioners Don Binnis and Marcie Argersinger "have been just furious sometimes about the way things have been called in city," the unidentified commissioner said.
don't notice the chucklehounds until they fall in them, and they don't know that maybe the police department isn't as keen as it could be. knows. But everybody knows sanitation.
Apparent budget and morale problems in the sanitation department last fall caused it to lose about 10 percent of its staff.
"Apparently those three guys who campaigned together have really made some decisions; they've come to some kind of agreement on how they're like the city to be and how they've put their heads together, but they've campaigned together for 20 or 30 meetings."
The commissioner also said that Barke, Clark, Jack Rose and Ed Carter had come to the conclusion.
CARTER, THE commissioner said, "fancies himself as a management expert—be's really keen on personnel, and that's all right.
"We do have evaluation procedures set up for every city employee except the manager."
this, and of course, it's only fair to let him know what the basis for evaluation is."
Carter said yesterday afternoon that better evaluation procedures for city employees were being implemented.
"We should set up a system," he said.
"We need more effective procedures."
He declined further comment on the reasons for the closed session.
WATSON, when asked after last night's city commission meeting whether the council would be planned to discuss at tomorrow's session, said, "No, they haven't. But even if they do," he added.
that other one the commissioner with the "publicity," the commissioner said, referring to Dick McClanathan, city planning director, who resigned three months ago. Charges that the city planning department had been inefficiently administered.
Only the five city commissioners and a newspaper publisher knew why the closed session was called, according to the unidentified commissioner.
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Bubble gum seems to provide some relief to the long hours out in
by senators during the senate meetings. Am Holderman, Hutchison freshman, doesn't mind the amount of business to be
New commissioners approve police lobby guidelines
Donald Binns will serve as the new vice mayor.
Commissioner Marnie Argeringer Was unanimously elected the new mayor of Lawrence at the Lawrence City Commission meeting last night. She is the second female mayor in the history of Lawrence.
Mibee also expressed his thanks to citizens and commission members.
Barkley Clark, Ed Carter and Jack Rose were sworn in as new city commissioners last night. Clark and Carter will serve four terms and Rose will serve a two-year term.
"I MIGHT get emotional," Pence said in making his exit. "I think being a commissioner is a very responsive job. I thank everybody."
Amid poems commending their services to the city, outgoing Commissioner Carl Mibeck and Mayor Fred Pence received the keys to the city from Argersiner.
"I'm going away from this job a stronger and better person," he said.
The new commission also approved guidelines for policemen lobbying before the Kansas State Legislature on police and law enforcement. The guidelines had been deferred from last week.
The Lawrence Police Department developed the guidelines to maintain closer supervision of the activities of officers in lobbying at the state capitol in Topeka.
UNDER THE new policy, an officer assigned to legislative monitoring duties on city time couldn't represent the interests of law enforcement or the Lawrence Police Department.
The action was prompted by news reports of an officer's lobbying activities while on
city tin' The officer, Tom Tschopph, had
the city and the kansas Eastern order of
buying.
The officer's activities were in apparent violation of a year-old action in which the city commissioners agreed to let an officer lobby for the city on law enforcement matters. The agreement allows an officer to lobby only part-time.
RICHARD Stanxw, chief of police, was present at the meeting to voice his support of the new guidelines, which he assured commissioners would be followed.
Included in the guidelines is a recommendation that the city commission's views be solicited on the lobbying stance for sensitive matters, such as capital punishment, gun control and mandatory sentences.
Binns b expressed his apprehension of such a rule, saving he didn't want to be a sensor.
"We're not really muzzling anybody," he says, but in very sensitive matters the complains can be heard.
THE POLICE department's proposal also requires that the lobbying officer working on behalf of the city or the department operates on a weekly basis to the chief of police.
Included in the reports will be the amount of time spent during the reporting period and an estimate of the amount of time required during the next week, reports on new legislation developed during the week and reports of regulatory situations that should be taken on legislation.
In other business, the city commission approved a price rise in the water bill, and in a humorous note refused a sign variance from the U.S. Army Reserve Center.
An approximate 11 per cent price rise for the average household will take effect on MPs.
ACCORDING TO Buford Watson, city manager, the rate increase will be used to help finance the new water treatment plant and voters in the primary election last March.
The city commission scheduled an executive meeting for tomorrow at 3 p.m. to discuss the job performance of city ad-hoc committees, the meeting is close to the public, and the press.
The regular April 19 commission meeting was canceled because several commissioners will be attending a conference in Denver.
Kansan officials chosen
The summer and fall Kansan editors and business managers were selected last night by the Kansan Board. The first three candidates were Des Moines Iowa, junior, and the summer business manager will be Larry Kelley, Lawrence senior. The fall editor will be Jerry Seib, Hays junior, and Jody Lehr, Kansas City Kan., junior
Just resting
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
Traveling was slow yesterday so Steve Quinn took a nap while his partner Jimmy Murphy tried to get the two a ride. Both men are from Rochester, N.Y., and both seemed oblivious to the sign behind them.
Delay on new student loan plan likely
Bv DEENA KERBOW
Gov. Robert Bennett yesterday signed into law legislation that would help establish a guaranteed state student loan program in Kansas. But the legislature delayed the program until after fall semester begins.
"The main force for delay is the Washington Office or Education." Jeff Weinberg, University of Kansas
The nonprofit Minnesota organization that would sponsor the program must be approved by the Office of Education, a branch of the department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington.
Staff Reporter
"It's very unfortunate," Weihring said. "It has been sitting on somebody's desk in Washington for years."
Weinberg says the delay could be a serious problem for students who will need the program money to
It is projected that applications for loans will be taken in August, but that money won't be disburished until December.
"I think students are confused about when this money will be available," he said.
Weinberg said the University couldn't make arrangements for offered payments from students.
"All state schools' fees must be paid at enrollment," he said. "And the University's short-term loan program will do its best, but our funds are limited." The loan is a size of the loans that the students are going to need."
He said many more students would receive financial aid under the new program.
Richard Hawk, director of the program's financing foundation, estimated last fall that the number of students receiving loans would more than double if the program became law.
One reason for the increase would be that, in addition to guaranteeing loans made by commercial banks, the Minnesota foundation also would lend students who were refused loans by commercial banks.
"—At public schools in Kansas," he said, "there is a great question on residency. One thing that keeps many students from residency is that they receive assistance from outside the state. They will be borrowing from here rather than from their home towns under this new program."
"The program will not discriminate against nonresidents," he said. "If a student comes to KU from Guam—and I know Guam doesn't have a campus—the he can get a loan through our state loan program."
Jerry Rogers, KU director of financial aid, said. The real beauty of this program is that the sponsor is not required to pay for training.
He said the foundation would be the insuring agency for the lender (local banks), but also would be the borrower.
Weinberg offered three other reasons for the expected increase in the number of student loans:
He said that students who had never applied for commercial loans would request loans under the new program when it became known that the money was available.
The loan project will be administered by the Higher Education Assistance Foundation.
The foundation "is not trying to born in on banks," he said, "though I suspect a lot of banks will be eager to get out of loafing to students. They're coming in, but they don't want to take lending interest from the banks."
The interest rate for a state guaranteed loan is seven per cent. However, he said that a student from a family that has an adjusted gross income of less than $100,000 aid that would pay a portion of the loan interest.
"The student pays back the loan after graduation and assumes the interest payments, but doesn't have to reimbuse the government for the interest it paid during the student's school years."
The program will be financed through the sale of revenue bonds that will be exempt from taxation. The terms and conditions are set forth below.
Rogers said that an added advantage of the program would be that some students would be able to get in touch.
Enrollment rise still expected
If the number of recent applications to the University of Kansas is any indication, KU's 1977 fall enrollment should increase as previously predicted, because dean of admissions and records, said yesterday.
Dyck said a 1977 fall enrollment projection of 22,750
students at the Lawrence campus was still accurate.
students at the Lawrence campus was still accurate. Reports have said KU freshman enrollment would decrease during the next several years because Kansas high school graduating classes are decreasing in size. But Dyck said the number of freshman applications received by the University has been increasing, and the time last year. Applications for new students often are used as indications of protected enrollments.
DYCK SAID he thought people were applying earlier this spring because of last year's housing shortage. A shortage of rooms in the residence halls last fall has encouraged potential KU students to apply early so they are assured a place to live, he said.
The Office of Admissions and Records has received about 100 more freshman applications this spring than at this time last year. Dyck said, but the number is still growing. He will end up close to the number received last year.
Dyck said the number of Kansas high school students was about the same as it was last year, but the numbers have risen.
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