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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 87, No. 112
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 25, 1977
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Council passes proposal concerning final exams
By JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Renorter
The University Council yesterday passed a proposal that would force KU instructors who weren't planning to give comprehensive final exams to hold their last unit exams during final week or before the last calendar week of classes in a semester.
It would also require that all final exams be given of their results.
Level at least regularly scheduled times. Makes instructors give final exams during the last week of classes and gives students a heavier load in school, according to Don Marquis, member of the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee (AP&P).
He said the proposal was designed to ease that problem.
A special notice of the council's action will now be sent to University Senate members.
who will have one week from the day of notification to petition for a further hearing. If there is no action by the University Board, the applicant may be sent to Chancellor Archie Dykes for approval.
The wording of the proposal, developed by
P&P, was modified by SemEx Wednesday
morning.
AFTER LENGTHY debate about the wording of the proposal, the council accepted the Senx modifications by a 21-6 vote. The proposed proposal was then accepted by a 20-7 vote.
Marquis, who presented the proposal to the Council, said it was developed to answer complaints from students and faculty about the pressures of the final week of classes.
MARQUIS ALSO said the administration had voiced concern that final week was
under-used because of the many exams that were given early.
He said administration officials had said that final tests should either be shortened or eliminated, if it couldn't be used more effectively.
Classes would then be 18 weeks, rather than 14 weeks long, with final examinations in the spring.
Randy McKeran, student member of University Council, and Gordon Wiseman, professor of physics and astronomy, said they saw problems with the proosol.
"I think we beating our heads against the wall," McKernan said. "I don't think there are that many problems with the system now."
Wiseman said the proposal might force some detailed unit exams to be in-line with curriculum changes.
Yellow Cab, bus program spar for Lawrence aged's business
Staff Reporter
By DEENAKERBOW
Yellow Cab Cb. of Lawrence yesterday contested a request by the Council on Aging for federal funds to support the county minibus program. The cab service offered an app to allow passengers that the council's program had taken about 30 per cent of the Yellow Cab business.
The Council on Aging had requested Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMA) funds to replace a mini-bus and to buy another bus, which would allow them to expand their program farther into the county.
The Council on Aging provides mind-bus service for a quarter a ride to senior citizens
Yellow Cab contended, at yesterday's county commission meeting, that its 24-
hour-work day could provide a more efficient service to the elderly, with helping them maintain their health.
WARD THOMPSON of Yellow Cab said he wanted to help Cal Broughton, director of the Council on Aging by releasing buses in order to expand his Douglas County program.
Thompson said that if his company were reimbursed under a plan similar to the minibank funding, he could provide a dividend for every citizen who no increased cost to the senior citizens.
"If they allow us the business within city limits," he said, "we would haul people in Lawrence, and it would allow them to expand their service in the county.
"A lot of counties have gone into sub-
sidating cab companies. The old person
Rebates kept low to build funds for satellite union
The Kansas Union is keeping rebates on cash sales low to accumulate funds for the satellite union to be built near Allen Field House.
Union customers can receive the rebates every six months by turning in receipts from the Union bookstores. The bookstores accept accepting receipts from periods 58 and 60.
"We are keeping the money on hand so we can provide lower rates for the new bookstore." Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas Union, said yesterday.
The University of Kansas Memorial Corporation, which conducts all Union business, sets the rebate percentage. The university has no rebate. December 31, 1976. is 5 per cent.
MONEY FOR rebates comes from the cash sales for a given period Ferguson said 50 percent of the money rebates. That money is set aside for rebate claims, which can be made for a year after payment.
discount has been discontinued, and all cash sales are eligible for returns regardless of the purchase.
In the past, faculty and staff members received a discount on each purchase and are encouraged to stay.
To receive a rebate, customers fill out a form giving their name and address. Ferguson said customers also must present the purchase receipts.
Brebats aren't paid during the first three weeks of each semester to allow for book returns and the rush of student buying books, he said.
"WE RUN advertisements in the Karsan announcing a declaration of period, the percentage and when we will begin paying on that period's receipt," he said. "We also send some out by mail if the request for package is a stamped, self-addressed envelope."
Although every eligible receipt isn't turned in by people claiming rebates, Ferguson said, the rebate percentage is determined as if they had. In the past 12 years, rebates have ranged from four per cent to 12 per cent.
The money from cash sales not designated for rebates is used to maintain the credit balance.
pays what he can afford to pay, and the county reimburses the cab company.
"I cannot compete with free transportation."
BROUGHTON AGREED that Thompson could provide quicker, on-the-spot, trans-
However, Broughton said that he was concerned with using public funds to sub-
"His system is far more efficient," Broughton said.
Three possible methods of funding cab subsidies were considered at the commission meeting: revenue sharing funds, community willlev established for the elderly program.
Peter Wittenlight, county commission chairman, immediately ruled out revenue sharing, by saying, "We don't have much of the money." He also shared funds for this year had been used.
Broughton said that UMTA funds couldn't be used because they were for capital assistance only, and not for operational expenses. He also said that a federal regulation prohibited using those funds for operational costs.
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Ralph Turner of the Douglas County Advocacy Council explained the mill levy, by saying campaign promises were the problem with using the mill levy.
"One statement made to the voters," he said, "was that the money would be used for operation and improvement of transportation."
"To take that money to subsidize would not be in good faith with over 19,000 people who voted in favor of this mill levy," he said.
However, Broughton said that the commission had the authority to use the mill levy to subsidize the cab program, if it decided to.
He said that transportation had been limited to the B62 mini-bus.
THOMPSON URGED commissioners to consider the cab-subsidy program, stressing that it would offer advantages to senior citizens.
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Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Back Stage
According to Terry Ala, (front), leader of the pupeteer troupe, and Jim Bennet, one has to be in shape to perform three out of four contests shows. After several performances, they are supposed to take off.
Sororities to be subject of hearings
Hobart Jackson, associate professor of architecture and urban design and chairman of the committee, said yesterday that the hearings were important because records showed that no KU sorority had ever admitted a black.
The University Senate's Human Relations Committee is to begin closed hearings where light into possible racial discrimination in University of Kansas living groups.
Jackson said that the hearings were planned after recent publicity of an incident in which a KU student said that another woman tried to pledge a sorority because she was black.
All 14 KU sororites have been asked to send representatives to the hearts, to be sent to the college.
"OUR COMMITTEE feels that it's very important that sororites, fraternities and all campus-related organizations and groups should be held accountable policy on discrimination." Jackson said.
The Regents policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religious faith or national origin within an institution under its jurisdiction.
The hearings aren't meant to blame any group for possible discrimination in hiring.
Instead, he said, the committee will make specific suggestions on ways in which campus groups and organizations can work with different minorities.
"One way would be for organizations to
attend University in recruiting
minorities for these positions."
THE COMMITTEE will talk with each sorority for about 20 minutes Monday Jackson said. KU fraternities will be asked to come to similar hearings later.
"We anticipate extending the hearings to other campus living groups and campus organizations."
Jackson said the Human Relations Committee would report to SenEx any recommendations for changes in University discipline and could help solve discrimination problems.
Jackson said the committee would refer instances of possible discrimination to a more authoritative University investigative body. If the Human Relations Committee was investigating it in an organization, the organization could be denied University funding.
The organization would have to comply with the Regents policy on discrimination, Jackson said, before the funding would be returned.
The Human Relations Committee is expected to complete its hearings by the end of March.
Vance to seek weapons cutbacks in talks with Soviets, Carter says
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Jimmy Carter said yesterday that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance would go to Moscow this week to seek actual arm reductions rather than a ceiling on arms growth.
Carter said his administration's goal was, "to change," a cutback in existing weapons.
The President outlined at a braodcast
Student conducts to express self
By PAM EKEY
Staff Reporter
Leon Burke briefly glanced up as the door to his apartment opened. Intently following an opera score as he listened to its performance on the radio, he paused to expel himself—the protagonist had just cut off John the Bantist's hands.
His right hand moved with cadence. Occasionally he sang along.
When the opera concluded, Burke rose, stretched his 6-foot4 body, and collapsed into his chair.
Burke, 23, is the assistant conductor of the KU Symphony orchestra. He is the only graduate student in orchestral music at UCLA.
"That's exhausting work," he sighed, "but I always take time out for the opera."
BURKE SAYS that conducting an orchestra is the ultimate form of musical expression. He began his music career playing piano, organ and flute, but was disappointed with interpretations he could produce with these instruments.
When he was about 16, he began taking formal conducting lessons from a St. Louis piano instructor. He wanted to lead a group of people and help them perform as one body. The entire orchestra was the instrument Burke wanted.
"Music was very personal to me," he said. "I wanted to express it, but my fingers wouldn't express it on the piano."
*WHEN YOU'RE in a good orchestra, all of a sudden, you’re playing within the boundaries of it. “It’s clean, and your joy together,” and then “I’m happy.”
you have a tendency to play better because there's that collective energy to feed of."
Learning basic conducting techniques was easy.
"YOU MUST try to put yourself in the head of the composer," Burke said. "Sometimes I can do this. In the middle of a performance, I conduct this way because I honestly think this is the way the composer wanted it. If you abandon yourself to the composer, then you are faithful to the music."
To find the right interpretation of a composition, Burke researches it before he performs it. He memorizes the score, so he can conduct without referring to it constantly. He reads about the composer to find out what the person is using, and what and what it is intended to represent. Then Burke reads what the critics have said about the original performance.
"You can teach that to a monkey," he said, as he demonstrated a four-four rhythm in the air with his right hand. He continued to talk, ignoring his still-moving hand. The conductor must also acquire an additional vocabulary of gestures, so he can communicate his directions to the group nonverbally, he said.
While the hard hand keeps the beat, the left gives additional information, such as entrance cues and whether the sound should be loud or soft, he said, and the most difficult part is the decision about the music as the composer intended it to be performed.
“If the conductor feels what the music is all about and can correctly radiate that and transmit it to the players, then it can't but show in the music,” he said. “If it shows in the music, then the audience is going to hear it, and if the
The effort is worthwhile. Burke said.
audience hears it, then they'll also be drawn into part of it."
Burke lugged about his first experiences conducting the KU Symphony. "They told me I was very imposing, very threatening from being all over the place," he said as he flapped his long arms to demonstrate his fingertip-to-fingertip armspread, which is about seven and one half feet wide.
Burke said his conducting style is different from that of George Lawner, the orchestra conductor. Lawner's style is refined, Burke said, almost European. Burke described his own style as more exuberant.
"At first I would get everything from people—underecting to overreacting," he said.
As he became more frustrated with the orchestra's slow response, his arm movements became wilder and more
"I turned to one instrument who was in tune with what I was doing, and all of a sudden, this one instrument sounded above the whole ensemble, destroying the effect of the orchestra."
By talking to members of the orchestra and watching himself on videodap, Burke modified his style until the orchestra became accustomed to it. Now, he said, everyone takes his techniques, and he can use more of his original form.
"I tell people, You'll like playing with me, because I try to get in the way of the music," he said. "I try to help the man."
Whenever he works with an orchestra, Burke tries to excite the group through music. He said a conductor couldn't teach an orchestra to play a piece. Instead, he tries to reflect the mood of the music to the players.
news conference an ambitious agenda for American-Soviet talks, ranging from a ban on nuclear testing to demilitarizing the Indian Ocean.
Carter said Vance and other U.S. negotiators would have as their "fall back position" the re-negotiation of the less ambitious 1974 Vladivostok accord, arranging President Gerald Ford to Soviet leader Leonid Brehm. It expires in October.
- If Vietnam acted in good faith to accuse or American officials missing in India, then the aggressively move to admit Vietnam to the United Nations and would make relations better.
While strategic arms based on the Vladivostok formula would place a ceiling on the nuclear weapons delivery systems of Russia, the US would insist that his real goal was actual arm cutbacks.
Other details of the President's meeting with reporters included Carter's statements
—Infiation this year was likely to hit six per cent 'or a little better' and the administration within two weeks would be a very strong "anti-infaction package."
—The United States had no outstanding
The President said Breshnev had been working on the agenda for the Vance visit and had given every sign that he hoped that the talks would be productive.
However, Carter said he would respond to a request for American economic advice from the White House.
Brezhnev and his Soviet colleagues have been very cooperative until now in preparing for forthcoming negotiations, not the one they were supposed to rights statements by Carter and others.
Carter said, "I don't feel we ought to apologize or castigate ourselves for the American role in the Vietnam war." That indicated his belief that the United States has no moral obligation to help rebuild that country through economic aid.
commitments in Zaire, although there were substantial U.S. commercial investments
"We have no hard evidence or any evidence, Carr said, across the Angolan or Caira case."
"We have no obligations as far as military aid goes in Zaire."
The President opened the press conference with a brief speech in which he said there had been some expressions of concern about his extensive discussions of foreign policy issues at news conferences and in other forums.
Carter said, "I think it's very important that the strength of the presidency itself be recognized as deriving from the people of this nation and I think it's good for us even in very complex matters, when the outcome is a question for us. The members of the Congress and the people of this country know what is going on, and some of the options to be pursured."
In talking about Hanoi's attitudes, Carter said the United States would never cease seeking full accounting for servicemen lost in Vietnam. He said that he thought they were in good faith in dealing with the president's commission that just returned from Hanoi.
"I think this is about they can do." Carter said with reference to the limited accounting, and the return of some American bodies to the commission, headed by Leonard Woodcock, president of the UAW.
Noting that in the past Hanoi has wanted to collect reparations from the United States, Carter said the subject wasn't mentioned to the commission.
Questioned about water projects that he has talked about eliminating from the federal budget, the President said that the projects would be discussed in public bearings to determine whether they should be reinstated.
"I don't think that any of the projects to be built will I keep an open mind."