THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No. 111
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Owens talks about future
fhursdav, March 24. 1977
See story page eight
Senate approves Union fee raise
The Student Senate approved a resolution to raise a t-student increase in Kansas Union fees.
Steve Leben, student body president, said passage of the resolution indicated the Senate would support the increase and would draft a petition to Chancellor Archie Dykes at its budget meetings April 12 and 13.
"With the overwhelming approval
of everyone said, the Senate will also
give final approval."
The Senate has no authoritative power to reject or accept the $1 increase, but its recommendation will be taken into consideration by the Chancellor when he submits budget proposals to the Board of Regents in April.
THE UNION Memorial Corporation Board of Directors needed tentative approval of the $1 increase to continue plan's budget, estimated at $8,540 for next year.
The $1 increase would raise students' Union fees to $15 and will provide an additional $30,800 for the Union's building, custodian and administration costs.
The board has estimated that an additional $38,138 in income would be made next year from increases in office and room rentals and service charges.
Adding the $36,000 expected from the $1 increase, the total income will be $7,138-$24,402 short of the $98,540 needed to meet costs.
THE LARGEST operational cost increases will arise from added expenses for labor and benefits, implementation of a new unit in the Union and a rise in utility costs.
The University now pays 60 per cent of the total cost to rent rooms in the Union. The amendment requests student members of the University to pay the administration to pay the total cost.
The resolution approved by the Senate was amended to include a request to the University to pay for all Union services it uses.
THE SENATE approved Leben's appointments of Katie Rhoads as Student Senate executive secretary and Mike Harner as StudEx chairman.
Randy McKernan objected to Harper's appointment saying he thought Harper was
Bernie Williams, who wrote the amendment, said there has been a longstanding discrepancy between what the University pays to the Union and what it actually owes.
Several other senators also objected to the appointment, saying they favored an American company.
The Senate elected seven new members to the University Council. They are Reggie Robinson, Tom Byers, Tim Cloon, Jill Walker, Chris Caldwell and Valerie Howard.
Three senators were elected to serve on anxix. They are Chris Caldwell, Tillom and Owens.
In other business, the Senate approved a $100-allocation to Operation Friendship, a three-year-old program created to promote American and foreign students at KU.
"I think the University ought to pay its debts," he said.
The allocation will fund the program for the remainder of 1977.
Bennett asks that cuts in budget be restored
Winter said, "We just didn't have any money how these funds were being applied."
Gov. Robert Bennett yesterday asked the state legislature to restore cuts made by the Senate Ways and Means Committee to help families and family practice program requests.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R. Ottawa, committee chairman, has said he didn't want to create an energy "slush fund" controlled by the Regents office.
The Senate passed the appropriations bill with the cuts recommended by the committee. It now goes to the House Ways and Values Committee, expected to be considered early next week.
Staff Reporter
Bv ROSS MCILVAIN
SEVERAL OFFICIALS said yesterday that the legislature probably would have restored the cuts even without the governor's support, but that they appreciated his support.
Bennett also asked that $500,000 cut from the Regents general maintenance fund that $1 million cut from the schools' utilities budgets be restored.
A total of $739,000 of the family practice program appropriations would go to set up a model family practice center in a Kansas community.
The Senate committee had earlier expressed approval of the projects but cut the funds for them because it thought no one would. It specified how the money would be spent.
Bennett, in a letter to Senate and House leaders, asked the legislature to restore $47,400 in funds for family practice programs at the KU Medical Center and $2.5 million in energy-saving programs at all seven Board of Regents schools.
WINTER SAID that he approved of the
The Senate Ways and Means Committee is expected to draft a bill setting up guidelines for the family practice program when it meets tomorrow, to pave the way for eventual restoration of the funds for the program.
idea, but that there should be legislative guidelines requiring the local community to pay part of the expense. Winter said Great Bend and Salina had shown the most interest in becoming the site of the proposed clinic.
Staff photos by JAY KOELZE
John Conard, Regents executive officer,
said yesterday. "We didn't expect the
Senate cuts would be a permanent removal.
When I talked to Sen. Winter this morning,
he said they had the bill practically drafted."
ROBERT KUEL, executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center, said last night one guideline that might be in use to prevent infection between the local and University authority.
The University would oversee the educational aspects of the program under the guideline, he said, and a local physician would oversee the treatment of patients. Under the program, he said, medical students would spend the first year of their residency in Kansas City, Kan., or Wichita, or third years at a family practice clinic.
KUGEL SAID the fact that Bennett had supported the program even before it went to the committee and had specifically asked the legislature to restore it was an indication that he considered it very important to solve the back of family practitioners in Kansas.
Kugel said he didn't understand the reasoning behind the funding cuts for the program, but said he was pleased that he had recommended their restoration.
Construction on the Clinton Lake area is proceeding slowly but surely. Since water impoundment isn't scheduled until March of 1978, the lake bottom is now used for the storage of flood waters and the storage of flocks of geese returning from their winter migration.
Clinton's progress
By NANCY TEETER
Staff Reporter
Despite delays in planning the Clinton Lake area and possible increased costs of the planned Clinton Parkway, officials say they are optimistic that construction of both projects will begin on time.
Impoundment of water for the lake is planned for March 1978, and the county plans to begin accepting bids for the lake from the public.
Clinton Lake, four miles west of Lawrence, will be about half the size of Perry Reservoir.
Don Jordan, Clinton Lake ranger, said recently that bids for Phase 1 of public use development at the lake should be submitted within a week or two of delays in receiving contracts and problems in obtaining right-of-way for some of the construction, no bids had been
The Army Corps of Engineers estimates that bids for Phase I won't be accepted until late this month or early in April.
Jordan estimated that Phase II of public use development would begin within six months. Phase II construction will complete the lake's recreational facilities and includes construction of loop roads, restroom and shower facilities, playgrounds, and water and electrical hookups for campers. It also will cost $1 million or 54 million, be said.
"Impoundment will begin no later than March 1978, and maybe sooner, depending on the state of construction," he
Phase I, which will cost from $1 million to $5 million, is the first phase of construction of recreational facilities at the site.
ACCEPTANCE OF bids for Phase III, construction of time quarters for the project manager, also is scheduled for
See CLINTON page seven
Parking fee discussed by officials
"Everybody agrees that we need additional revenue. The question is how to do it."
A recent recommendation to the Board of Regents for an increase in the price of parking permits at the University of Kansas has been approved by the university's authority of Kansas officials agreed yesterday.
"I don't think there's any way we can get around an increase in the price of permits," he said. "I think it will be a problem."
The Regents will act on the request at their April meeting.
KU last week requested that the Regenta
zone be increase for most parking
zones in the city.
THE UNIVERSITY Parking and Traffic Board originally submitted the request to the University Council, which then modified the proposals before sending them to the Dykes. The Dykes, who again modified the proposals before submitting them to the Repsents.
"We probably won't know how much money we'll get until mid-Augel." I am Davia, the teacher.
The original proposals would've provided the markup program an additional $68,445.
Dick Tracy, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said the increase was due to the steady rise of operating expenses, including salaries, equipment repair and improvements. He said the present financial system offered no choice but to raise prices.
THE PARKING PROGRAM now receives state support. All expenditures are paid for by the city.
"One solution would be to find another way to finance the parking system," Tracy said. "However, I have no reason to believe that will happen."
The proposed fee increases are:
$15, from $60 to $75 annually, at the KU Medical Center:
$10, from $30 to $40, for universal permits;
**88** from $40 to $88, for universal permits;
$7, from $30 to $37, for yellow, red, brown and blue zones
$3, from $15 to $18, for residence hall permits
The increase originally proposed by the Parking and Traffic Board for residence buildings is
AT THE UNIVERSITY Council meeting two weeks ago, Leben proposed a $2 cut in the increase, which would have made the fee $18. The council rejected the motion, however, and approved the board's original proposal by a 14 to 8 margin.
Leben, Jess Paul, president of the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH), and Mike Taraboulos, former president of AURH, then met with Dykes to present Leben's proposal. Dykes accepted it and recommended the $2 cut to the Resents.
Leben said that capital improvements all across campus were needed, but that the original proposal would have forced persons living in residence halls to pay for 38 per month.
"I don't think there is any way the residence halls would have received benefits totaling 38 per cent of the additional revenues," Leben said.
IF APPROVED BY THE Regents, the changes will go into effect this fall, and will be made by the Board.
Change in city government form debate's topic
By STEVE STINGLEY
Staff Reporter
Charges that Lawrence's city commission-city manager government was unresponsive and that a proposed mayor-council government would be too costly needed in a debate last right concerning a city form of government to charge the city's form of government.
Hang up on obscene calls
"The cardinal rule when dealing with an obscene phone call is to hang up." Collins said. "Our studies have shown that 83 percent of the time they 'thin' you back."
According to Bill Collinson, public office manager at the Lawrence branch of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., she did the right thing.
Earlier in the evening when she answered the phone, she was greeted by a stream of obsentities. Both calls were irritating and even a little frightening.
Carol picked up the telephone, said hello and was answered by heavy breathing. She held her breath.
USING THE telephone to make obscene calls is a federal offense. Collinson said that recourse was "up to law enforcement" a legal area be called touchy.
"When we catch an offender, most of the time we get them to seek help," he said.
"More and more have become aware that we can catch them. We trap callers if the victim receives and continues to receive the call, because it determines a matter not for us, but for the law."
According to Collison, who must handle complaints about obscene calls for the police, the state has imposed a penalty of
decrease in the number of obscene phone calls in Lawrence and the probably 'probably not' ones.
Lawrence Southwestern Bell has enough equipment for "trapping"—a term Collinson said was preferable to tapping three lines at a time.
Since 1971, when the telephone company started charging for nonpublic service, or unlisted phone numbers in Kansas, the number of unlisted numbers declined. Collinson, there is "just five cent or less of the numbers since there's a charge now.
"ON ONE CALL there's not too much we can do, because it's over and done with," he said. "There's no way to catch anyone doing that."
FOR STUDENTS living on campus, unlisted numbers are out of the question. Residence halls never have unlisted numbers because they're contracted through the University, according to Collison.
"These are mostly Lawrence residents.
although they don't usually get unlisted numbers because the police are receiving calls for private cars.
Capt. Mike Hill of the KU Police Department, handles complaints of obscene phone calls. He said they weren't "an everyday occurrence, not even a weekly occurrence, though we're not surprised by it.
"the victims of obscene calls are apt to be women," he said. "they are not unattainable from a place like this."
"USUALLY, TROUGH, men complain about harassment and threats in phone calls rather than obsessions."
When someone in a KU residence hall is
See OBSCENE CALLS nage stx
The debate, sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, featured four speakers: Commissioners Barkley Clark and Carl Mibek, who support the present form of government, and Mark Kaplan and Michael A. Henshank, both students, who support the proposed change.
Lawrence voters will get the chance to decide on the April 5 general election ballot whether they want to shift to the mayor-council form of government.
The city now has a city commission, comprising five commissioners elected at large and a city manager appointed by the commissioners. The proposed council would elect seven councillors, council members elected by geographical districts and a mayor elected at large.
Poor voter turnout for local elections and a history of "neighborhood struggles" with the commission were proof that the present government was unresponsive, Kaplan and Gleason said.
They said that only a token citizen participation in city government was taking place now and that there were no real ties between citizens and commissioners.
They said that the present form had worked well since it was started in 1951, keeping property taxes low and listening to public opinion more than any other special interest groups.
Clark and Mibke said that a change to the council-mayor form would mean an increase in administrative costs because it would be paid for by be paid high salaries, and the mayor would have to have a salaried city administrator. The two estimated the cost of the new form.
Kaplan said that the low salaries of the commissioners ($100 per year) limited the kinds of people that could serve. He said that the commissioners were generally professional people and that the common wage-earner couldn't afford to run for of-
Kaplan also said that electing council members every two years and by districts would make them more responsive to the voting public. Council members would be forced to be responsible to a specific group of people, Kaplan said, instead of the more
than 50,000 people all the commissioners were now representing.
Gleason said that as the number of people a commissioner had to represent increased, his ability to represent those people thoroughly decreased.
it was argued by both sides that their respective forms had the capacity to handle special needs of minorities and older, less affluent neighborhoods.
A decision is expected tomorrow to determine what disciplinary action, if any, should be taken in a beating incident involving Iranian students.
Iranian decision planned
Shankel said he couldn't discuss the information.
Shankel ordered the investigation March 7, after the Iranian Students
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that a University of Kansas investigation into the incident probably would be finished by the end of this week because of conclusive information obtained.
Donald Alderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs, and Mike Dillon, acting chancellor for charge of obtaining information and deciding what administrative action is required.
Association (ISA) charged that one of its members had been attacked Feb. 25 by the man the ISA said worked for SAVAK, the Iranian secret police. The man was Kambiz Zbaili, Tehran, Iran, special student, the ISA said.
The investigation has centered on whether the student was attacked not whether the man worked for SAVAK or whether the beating was a political incident.
Davis has said that if any disciplinary action was taken, it would range from a warning to a two-year suspension of a student from the University. Disciplinary provisions are included in the student code.
No disciplinary action can be made public because of the Buckley Amendment's privacy provision.