THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Friday, April 1, 1977
Vol. 87, No.117
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Balloon issue still unresolved
See story page 12
Sport funds loss likely for women
The Student Senate probably will allocate funds to Women's Intercollegiate Athletics during this spring's budget hearings but it won't be in office until Harper, StudEx chairman, said yesterday.
"We're going to recommend that the budget be passed including the funds for Women's Intercollegiate Athletics but include a rider on the bill saying we're going to discontinue funding intercollegiate activities." Harner said.
The Women's Intercollage Athletics request is a line item of $45,406 on the Senate budget. The amount is approximately one third of the program's entire budget.
THE STATE provides the remaining two thirds of the budget but won't reimburse the program for the entire amount if the Senate doesn't fund them this spring, Harper said.
"The state's budget is completed just as we begin ours," he said.
If Women's Intercollegiate Athletics isn't mandated, they have nowhere else to turn for help.
Jill Grubaugh, who is on the Women's
Intercollegiate Athletics advisory board, said that without the Senate funds, the university would not be able to fund athletics.
"The program needs the money to send teams to the various universities," she said. Women's Intercollegiate Athletics are nurtured from men', which are self-supporting."
HARPER SAID he was confident that the Senate would approve funding for the program this year because the program could end without Senate funds.
Another reason for funding Women's Intercollegiate Athletics this year, he said, is to give the state a year in which to provide the funds the Senate will stop providing.
The state is required to provide funds for women's sports in compliance with TITLE IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions.
Harper said the Finance and Auditing Committee's general budgeting philosophy of not funding intercollegiate activities was a long-term Senate policy.
Funding requests flood Senate budget hearings
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first of the Senate's spring budget hearings, three Student Senate committees last night heard funding requests from 21 student organizations.
The three committees - Academic Affairs, Cultural Affairs and Student Services - have a total of $48,729 to allocate to the 21 groups and 25 other groups they will hear from on April 4 and 5.
The 46 groups are requesting a total of $82,362.
The organizations presented detailed budgets to the committees justifying their proposed expenses for the coming year.
The budget requests included many routine allocations for such things as office supplies, publicity material, office rental, telephone services and salaries. At their meetings next week, the budget includes all of the in the budgets, and will then present them to the Student Senate at the April 12 meeting.
The requests heard by the Academic Affairs Committee were Blacks in Communications Caucus, $5,000; Student Association for Combined Health Services, $796; Dicta, $864; Undergraduate Atthropology Association, $39; Vertebrate Biology, $39; Asian Studies, $300; Entropy, $238; Undergraduate Philosophy Club, $210; German Club, $200; and KU Student Art Education Association, $95.
The Student Services Committee heard requests from Kansas Environmental Services, $10,543; Consumer Affairs Association, $8,269; Friends of Hillsboro, $8,064; Dollars for Legal Aid, $4,100; MECHA, $2,300 and Hillop, $1,075.
The request heard by the Cultural Committee were Tau Sigma Dance Society, $, $\phi$; 0651, International Club, $, $3.500, University Dance Company, $, 1.000, KU Folk Dance, $735; Operation Friendship, $00.
Scoop 'er up
Mike Lundblade, Wichita senior, found himself without a bat. while nlaving softball
yesterday in front of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. A nearby shovel seemed to do quite nicely though as Landblade hit grounders and飞 balls to some of his friends.
Newly appointed vice chancellor plans to survey student opinion
A survey to sample student opinion on various topics will be developed at the university of Kansas, David Am伯, Binghamton, for a facelab encoder for student affairs, said yesterday.
The survey will be patterned after one now used at Kent State University, where Ambler is vice president for educational and student services.
Ambler, who was in Lawrence this week to look for a house and meet with University and student officials, will take office here July 1.
The Kent State survey samples students for their perceptions of the school and their opinions on issues facing the university and awareness of the university's resources.
"WE CAN T RELLY on just our hunches as to what the students know and are also. Amber said. "We need to try to get a system up where those things can be tested out."
Computerized lists are made of different Kent State student classifications, such as
muter and married student A random sampling is then taken from each category.
Ambler said the Kent State system once discovered that a large percentage of students there had never heard of the student health center. He said he hoped the new system at KU would help avoid such problems.
Textiles subject of art research
The system also will examine student attitudes and problems and try to discover why some students leave school prematurely.
BY CAROLELL Staff Renorter
By CARL CEDER
Except for a vacuum cleaner, Marshra Craig appears to have all the necessary instruments to perform surgery; a scalpel; a pair of sharp, tapered tweezers; a magnifying glass and a bright light to illuminate her subject.
The subject Craig, Newark, N.J., graduate student, works with isn't human or vegetable, however, it is mineral. It is also about 600 years old. She works with 30 fragments of pre-Colombian textiles at the Museum of Art in Spoon Hall.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Craig is doing research on the textiles for a curatorial problems course taught by Charles Eldridge, director of the Museum of Art and associate professor of art history.
The textiles are remnants of tapestries, garments, fishnets, baskets and blankets from the Chancay Indian civilization in Peru, Craig said.
"TWO OF THE most interesting pieces we have are the fragments with bird and feline characters woven in the design," she said.
Textile preservation
Marsha Craig, Newark, N. J., grad, student, works with
Those characters, drawn in an abstract design, seemed to have been very popular in the Chancery Indian culture, Craig said, and their faces were made exclusively with natural dyes.
the Chancay Indian used certain berries in their coloring process to make a color: certain vegetables, such as cucumber; certain vegetables, such as a yellow color; and tree bark for brown tortoiseshells.
she said that because the civilization was limited to using only natural dyes, the Indians didn't have the great variety of colors that are available today.
One of the problems involved in working with the fragments of textiles is testing them for color fastness, Craig said.
"THERE ARE two techniques used for cleaning textiles and checking color fastness in the said. "One is wet cleaning, which is done with a brush. Another is dry cleaning, which uses chemical
Craig said that before she had test the fabrics in water, the pH content and acidity had to be checked because too much acid in the water would damage the fibers.
The textiles are cleaned primarily to
"I WANT to start looking immediately at information to see how we can improve our services and help students and student decision-makers involved in decision-making," he said.
"WHAT WE ARE concerned with in terms of conservation of textiles is halting deterioration by not exposing the fabrics to dirt, humidity and light," she said.
restore them as closely as possible to their original condition, Craig said, so they could be used in instruction or could be placed on exhibition.
However, Craig said many of the fragments were so damaged by weathering and so deteriorated by microorganisms that restoration wasn't feasible.
"From my studies so far, the material used in the weft, or horizontally woven fibers, was wool or other animal hair and cotton." "The fibers of the weave, was cotton," Craig said.
"As long as there is an understanding about where responsibility rests, I see no area where student involvement can't be encouraged." he said.
Craig said that her main concerns now were cleaning, identifying and cataloging the textiles. After a textile has been cleaned by vacuuming, it is identified by examining a strand of its material under a microscope, she said.
Ambler said he hoped students would become more involved in matters affecting the school.
ACCORDING TO Craig, most of the
The recent investigation into the alleged beating of an Iranian student was handled by a law enforcement agency.
tapestries, garments and blankets were woven on backstraps or ankle looms, primitive and movable machines used to weave thread or yarn into cloth.
"The basket and fisnet designs were done with macrane knots, which are the same as those used today because they are universal technicians." she said.
See TEXTILES page three
The textiles are part of a major collection, craig said, and their historical and artistic value is not to be missed.
"IF A STUDENT is unhappy with his course load and living situation, he has a greater potential for dropping out," Ambler said. "We need to find these problems and solve them so we won't waste that student's resources."
"PD LIE to see student issues like that handled by students themselves," he added. When you have conflicts between student and faculty, the students will be involved in the final decision."
Ambler said he wanted to start on the system immediately but wasn't sure how much he would accomplish before he arrived in Lawrence.
Ambler was hired to replace William Balfour, who resigned to resume teaching as a professor of physiology and cell biology.
He said his immediate concern after taking office would be to become more familiar with KU and to analyze information from the student survey.
However, matters such as the judgment of faculty members should be left to other faculty members who know the issues best. The knowledge suggested ways teaching could be improved.
Ambler said the best way to combat KU's predicted enrollment was to continue maintaining the quality of KU's programs.
"Nothing sells like the product itself," he said.
Clever capers a part of April Fool frenzy
"Freeda," she screamed. "Your dog—it's lying in the street. It was just standing there, in the middle of the street, when this car came along. He slammed on his brakes, and well, I don't know if Tippy's hurt, but he's just living there."
Muriel rushed panic-stricken into the bedroom this morning.
Freeda threw off her bedcovers. Fumbling around for her robe—bug-eyed and frantic—she was distracted by muffled laughter coming from Muriel's direction.
The chuckles rolled into hysterical laughter as Muriel, gasping for air, said, "APA!"
Funny? Perhaps, but Freeda didn't think so. She dumped a can of dog food into Muriel's bed and decided not to talk to her for several days.
April Fool's Day, also known as All Fool's
April, is, according to 'Armour's Almanac',
a day when it is customary to play practical
 games—risking the possibility of losing them.
Christine Chaudier, in "Everman's Book of Ancient CUSTOMs," says, "It's 'a day when everyone is entitled, if I can, to make other people look ridiculous by getting them to believe something that isn't true, or by being unsuspectingly on some foolish erasure."
Where in the world did a custom employing such acts begin?
Some say France initiated the custom in 1564, when it adopted the reformed calendar, thus changing the beginning of the year to Jan. 1.
Previously, the New Year's Day was celebrated March 25, followed by a week of festivities. This made April 1 the eighth day of the feast and a magical time.
- Although the once-central spring day has lost its prominent position, many people still keep up the old April Fool's Day customs.
Spreading from France, the custom of playing tricks, which appeals to the prankster innate in most people, won general adoption.
Chaundier has suggested that the holiday came from an ancient Jewish custom commemorating the day when Noah supposedly sent the dove out of the ark too soon. Finding no ground on which to rest, the dove had to return to the ark.
According to the theory, Chaundair said, when old Jewish people forgot the anniversary, their friends sent them on useless errands to remind them not to forget to carry out the rites, whatever they may have done, while making the fruitless journey of Noh's dove.
Whatever its origins All Fool's Day continues to be a thorn in the side of the more sober-minded, and a source of joy and amusement for the more fun-loving sorts.
"Armour the Almancar" says that in parts of Scotland, the custom was known as "dabaw".
"In other parts," the book says "it is known as 'hunting the cuckoo,' a cuckoo being a glove. In France the person who does this is called Davil, and one man's gouw is another man's poison."