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Vol. 87. No.98
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, February 25, 1977
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Funding for KU additions to get subcommittee okay
Staff Renorter
By STEVE FRAZIER
TOPEKA-A Senate subcommittee plans to recommend construction funds today for additions to Robinson Gymnasium and Wichita High School, Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said yesterday.
Hess said the committee would recommend that KU spend $380,492 of the extra fee money, which excludes the $380,000 for meals provided by the Receipts of their January meeting.
THE KU SUBCOMMITTEE decided not to allow the University to spend all of the excess $1.1 million in student fees collected because of the higher-than-expected 1978 tuition.
The KU subcommittee and the other Board of Regents institutions' subcommittees were scheduled to report their fiscal 1978 and supplemental fiscal 1977 budget recommendations to the full Ways and Means Committee this morning.
"IM PRETTY confident that Robinson and Mallet will go through this session."
Hess, chairman of the University of Kansas subcommittee of the Senate Ways and Means Committee to address the educational programs and capital improvements for the Lawrence campus that had been requested by Gov. Robert Bennett and restored some cuts in funding.
"The subcommittee's recommendations don't get automatic approval" Hess said, in a telephone interview. The subcommittee members have the chance to visit the campus and they go over the plan with the committee.
Hess said his subcommittee would recommend that the Robinson addition be funded at a total cost of $6.7 million, rather than at $7.3 million as requested by the University. University administrators have said the extra $60,000 was needed to cover costs caused by inflation occurring since the date the project was planned.
If the KU subcommittee's recommendations are approved, KU would get $2.5 million in fiscal 1978 for first-year construction costs of the Robinson project and $3 million for the first year of the Malott project.
Hess said the subcommittee decided not to allow KU to spend the extra fee money to encourage Regents institutions to make their enrollment estimates more carefully.
Money requests due on Monday
Applications for $48,965 to be allocated to student organizations by the Student Senate in spring budget hearings are due at 5 p.m. at the Senate office, 105B in the Kansas Union.
Applications can be picked up in the office software. Budget hearings will be March 27.
Tom Mitchell, Senate business manager,
said that as of yesterday he had received
two applications, Last year, he said, the
company awarded $46,350 to about 50
organizations.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said the Regents institutions' calls to students to report what claims that applied to all Regents schools,
These system-wide items—faculty salary increases, increases in operating expenses and shrinkage requirements—will receive a review by the committee in full committee meetings. Winter said.
**WINTER, WHO also is chairman of the KU Medical Center subcommittee, said the Med Center subcommittee wouldn't make recommendations public until Wednesday.**
Hess said his subcommittee wouldn't
recommend some of the new classified positions requested by KU for the new School of Law and visual arts buildings that might not be ready for use when scheduled.
"As I understand it, there is a real
satisfaction the School of Law building won't
be destroyed."
If all the buildings open as scheduled, he said, KU is entitled to the new classified positions and could request money for them supplemental fiscal 1978 budget requests.
The KU subcommittee agreed with Bennett that KU shouldn't get the money
Enrollment expected to be above record predictions
See ADDITIONS page seven
Dryck estimated five weeks ago that final enrollment would total 23,988 students, up from 22,604 in 2015.
Figures from the Office of Admissions and Records indicated a total first-day spring enrollment for both campuses of the University. In April, when the first-day enrollment was 21,356.
Final enrollment estimates for the spring semester are slightly higher than earlier record predictions, Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said yesterday.
Dyck said the final figures, compiled after the 20th day of classes, would be available Monday. But based on figures available so far, he said, "We'll probably be a little higher than our predictions, probably by 100 students."
The 20th day of classes was last week. Dyck said his office needed until Monday to relax the figures because "we have to send all the information through the computers, tabulate it and then subtract the religion numbers" (Dyck, full-time equivalent students, "emphasized").
The delay between first-day enrollment figures and final figures accounts for students who enroll after the first day of classes or enroll in continuing education.
The final enrollment figure for the Lawrence campus will reflect the number of students who enrolled: through the easy-access program; at the Linwood Center in Kansas City, Kan.; in the Topeka Capital Complex program, or in extended courses offered at community colleges in Johnson and Wyndotte counties. The Linwood and Kyester Colleges offer an international satellite courses for University of Kansas credit.
Dyck said the final figure also included students who enrolled late on the Lawrence campus, and off-campus graduate students who received their undergraduate university credit for their doctoral research.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Crash landing
High winds and warmer temperatures brought out Susan Plesch,
Salina freshman and Carlos Veluz. Puerto Rico fresher, to test
the drifts for kite flying in front of Fraser Hall. But the guts proved too much for the kite and the kite flyers turned their attention
Fire guidelines called confusing
Rv LEROV. JOHNSTON
Staff Reporter
Confusion over the exact meaning of the Kansas state fire marshal's October safety recommendations continues to delay fraternities' compliance, Tim Metzler, Interfraternity Council (IFC) president, said yesterday.
"The original recommendations were too confusing to act on," he said. "The fire marshal's office sent one report to the board, and the board approved one to the housing corporation boards."
Metzler said the boards, which control funds for the fraternities, had raised money to make necessary changes in the houses, and they exact guidelines before they proceed.
fire marshal's office to come to KU and clarify its position. Metzler said.
"We're still trying to find out which guidelines are recommendations and which guidelines are requirements."
FOLLOWING THE initial confusion over in reports, which asked for action on the report.
A fire marshal representative was to have come during Christmas vacation but never did, Metzler said, so the IFC recently planned for a meeting with the office March 5.
Metzler said he doubted that the March meeting would resolve the problems either.
"The inspectors will still have to go to each house individually again and make specific recommendations for each one," he said.
METZLER SAID the fire marshal's office
put pressure on the fraternities to
convoy.
"There is no deadline," he said. "All they really want is steady positive movement. We've taken our time on this so we won't be too worried." "We want to get this right the first time."
Interest in fire protection at KU increased after five faterenomies men were killed in a plane crash.
August. Lack of a third floor fire escape was one flaw cited in the accident.
Paul Markley, fire protection technical adviser at the fire marshal's office in Topeka, said he was pleased with the progress being made at KU.
Markley said that his office didn't have the manpower necessary to make rounds as often as he would like, but that he visited underteens and one sorely at KU in October.
Metzler said the fraternities Markley visited had personally requested images.
THE MAIN items recommended for all houses by the fire marshal's office were approved smoke detectors and fire alarms. Metzler said that many bids had been received by the houses for such systems, but that few had decided which systems to buy.
Metzler said another apparent cause of delay was deciding how fraternities and
sororites fit into the fire code requirements, which he called complex.
J. J. Wilson, KU housing director, said the code was clear for University property.
"ONCE A YEAR, they inspect the scholarship halls, residence halls and Stouffer Place," he said. "We have had two cases of injuries that we are in violation of the code."
But when asked about fire marshal recommendations for Stephenson Hall last October, Wilson said, "I'm not even sure they're necessary."
Cal Karlin, Stephenson Hall director, said he had received a list of the recommendations, but added, "I'm dissatisfied with the housing office has moved on this."
**KARLN SAID** that of the 10 items on the last only two minor ones had been imprinted.
KU hears whistle
The peaceful tranquility of Mt. Oread temporarily vanished at 5:22 yesterday afternoon, when the KU team came in for the first time since fall semester.
But Rodger Oroke, director of facility operations for buildings and grounds, said, "We have no the whistle will be blown again."
The whistle was blown, he said, on orders from Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
Shankel confirmed that he had been responsible for the return of the whistle. But he said, "It's not permanent yet. We are thinking about
According to Shankel, "We had a special request from a group to make a tape of the whistle for a surprise performance."
Future use of wasps' home under studv by HPER
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
Wasp watcher
Heather Dew, Ontario, Canada, graduate student, spends many hours each week observing the activities and habits of queen
wasp for her doctor's research project. Dew said it was possible to be emotionally attached to a wasp that had been watched.
By DAVID JOHNSON
Staff Reporter
To some people, the two-story brick and stone schoolhouse on the corner of 2xrd and Iowa streets may be an eyesee, a relic from the days of the three Rs and five-mile walks through snow to elementary school.
But to Heather Dew, Ontario, Canada, graduate student, and seven colonies of wautua, 6th school is home for a research project based on the climate of Victoria.
More a victim of disrepair and disarray the decay and dislipidation, the building sits alone on the southeast corner of a southwest corner.
When the Clinton recreational park was being planned, the KU department of facilities planning thought the schoolhouse would have to be torn down to make way for the project. Seven years later, it became a public housing district house," under the control of the department of entomology.
In another room, Martian Riedy, Hope senior, is doing research work for a senior project. She peers silently into a cellophane-covered, two-foot by three-foot box. There are seven boxes in the room, each containing the nucleus of a wasp colony—a queen wasp
DEW HAS BEEN working on her doctoral research for the past year and a half on the division of labor among paper wasps. After a year of field work, last fall she began breeding the wasps in mating cages set up in rooms in the schoolhouse's musty basement. Because wasps normally mate and build nests in April, he to simulate spring-like conditions with fluorescent lights.
"We spend about 12 hours a week observing and taking data on the progress of the wasps," she said. Each box is observed twice a week.
The wasps are fed water, honey and green caterpillar "wasp-
burgers."
Dew has been stung only once by the paper waps since she moved her research inside. But when she was working as an uncle, Dew also got stung by a paper wap.
ALL THE NESTS are slike except for one that has two queens.
That nest is a study in domestication, Dew said. One queen, tagged "green 50," sits on the nest and lays eggs while the other forages for food and doesn't reproduce.
vespula wasp (yellow jacket) was so painful she quit studying them.
Despite their occasional aggressiveness, wasps are mild-mannered. Dew said.
"If you disturb them, sure they're going to defend their nests,"
"and they'll be angry if you're properly, don't make loud rains or move to nearby, won't bother you."
DEW WILL HAVE to walk slowly and speak selflessly until she finishes her research, probably two-and-one-half years from now.
She now has only herself, her two assistants and occasional visitors to concern herself with.
Last fall, she shared the building with another graduate student who was responsible bees. The bees now have been moved to three locations.
The entomology department has used the building for at least 15 years, but the health, physical education and recreation department would like to use the building to store equipment and sell concessions at ruby and soccer matches.
Tom Willkerson, recreation services coordinator, said his department had done preliminary studies on how the building could be used for intramural and sports club purposes. He said tentative plans called for construction of a sam deck from which people could watch matches and installation of a sauna. The construction would also could be used as a warming house after an outdoor ice rink is built on the adjacent list, he said.
WILKERSON SAID the projects wouldn't be inexpensive
"I'd anticipate it would take several thousand dollars to fix it in," he said. "I would depend on the available funds."
The recreation department has made several requests to use the building after the entomology department relinquishes it, he said, but it never has received confirmation on the request from the office of facilities planning.
Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning, confirmed that he and received the requests, but said he didn't forestall them. He also said he was part of the emergency department.
"I don't have any feeling whether it is serving the appropriate use, but now I would assume that it is or the University would have