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Candidates for Student Body President Randy McKernan (center), Sherri Grey and Steve Leben (far right) drew numbers from a patient before last's final debate.
between the three candidates. The drawing decided the debate seating arrangement and the order in which questions would be asked.
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87,No.90
Tuesday, February 15, 1977
City government change debated
Lawrence voters will decide in April 5's city election whether to change the city government from the present commission-manager form to a mayor-council form.
Advocates for both sides said yesterday that their system was more representative of the people.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said that because the commissioners were elected at large and not by wards, they represented the whole city. This, he said, discourages political favors.
Political favors are healthy, according to Mark Kaplan, a leader of the mayor-council movement. He said the "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" system was good because city programs and development are only distributed among the city's wards.
Watson said the present form of government wouldn't be greatly changed if commissioners were elected from each ward. He said the manager form was flexible because he could decide how many commissioners to elect and where they could be elected from.
THE PRESENT system in Lawrence consists of five commissioners, one of whom is officially called a mayor, and another is a professional trained administrator.
The manager is hired by the city and can be fired by three commission votes. He has no contract.
Watson said this was the key to good city management. One fault of the mayor-council form, he said, was that the mayor, who would be the chief administrator, couldn't be removed from office until his term expired.
THE MANAGER gathers and organizes facts to implement policy and gives those facts and his recommendations to the company. The manager responds with an accent or reject these recommendations.
Watson said that the city was like a business and that it needed someone trained in city affairs. He said a good city manager was well informed on the problems facing the city and the solutions to those problems.
Klaplan said there were business affairs to the city, but the city wasn't a business.
Kaplan said he would like to see the manager position eliminated because a manager could conduct business behind the desk, but not with both the public and the commissioners.
Kate Duffey, another advocate of the mayor-council form, agreed with Kaplan, saying that the commissioners didn't understand what to do when the manager presented it to them.
OK on space addition likely, legislators say
Kaplan said the main problem with the present system was that the commissioners were primarily from one class of students and the "little guy" tended to be ignored.
Both Kapian and Duffy said they wanted a mayor-council form with a full-time mayor and councilmen. Full-time mayor, they said, could better serve the city.
THE PROPOSAL in April doesn't say that the mayor and councilmen will be full time, but Kaplan said that that could be written in after the proposal was passed.
Under the mayor-council form, the mayor would be elected at large and would have the power of veto over the county council. Under the county council would be elected from at least four wards.
Kaplan said the present system was the same as electing representatives from congressional districts, as is done in the United States today.
Wayne Ogress, chairman of the department of health, physical education and recreation (HPER), led the Robinson tour. He said some HPER classes were filled the first afternoon of enrollment because of space shortages.
Keeping taxes down and spending less is characteristic of a commission-manager form of government, according to an article by Robert Lineberry and Edmund Fowler from the American Political Science Review.
HE ADDED that the property tax was lower now than the rate in 1970. He said the city had grown substantially but taxes were still held down.
HE SAID that when citizens went to会议 meetings to argue a point on an issue, they generally found that the commission had already gone too far in im-
planning, accompanied the legislators on their tour.
Watson said the present city government was always in the public eye and the community is well-informed.
plementing the policy for the person to do anything about chaining it.
Von Ende said Board of Regents guidelines specified Robinson should have 250,000 square feet of floor space. It now has only 74,000 square feet, he said, and even with the addition, the total would be only about 150,000 square feet.
Von Ende told the legislators the animal quarters were barely passing federal regulations for research animal care, and the officers were appalled "almost to the point of desolation."
Watson said that Lawrence had grown prosperous under the manager-compromis-
dations.
The article also said that that form increased the power of the middle class.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, met the tour group in Malott and explained that the Malott addition would provide more space for the science library, classrooms and animal research quarters.
Kaplan seemed to agree with this, saying that the growth and development in Lawrence was directed toward certain towns town while others were being neglected.
Hess said his major concern with the proposed Robinson addition was that the governor recommended $6.7 million for him, but KU revised its request to $7.25 million.
Hess, looking into a packed weight lifting bag. "If my YMCA looked like this, I would go."
Candidate debate matches records
Lucas said $6.7 million would be the minimum for the new construction. The higher estimate included increases in construction costs because of inflation, he said.
If attendance at last night's Student Senate presidential debate is an indicator, KU students are apathetic about the elections tomorrow and Thursday.
By MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Renorter
Fewer than 75 persons attended the two-hour debate between the three coalition members, a senior body president, and most of the spouses of the candidates or campaign workers. Most of the other spectators were members of the philanthropy fraternity, which sponsored the debate.
Warren said, "They've made a pretty good case for the need for more room today. The only thing that would stop approval of the buildings would be state finances as a whole—we've got to look at everything. But I doubt that will stop it."
Staff Renorter
By STEVE FRAZIER
Chancellor Archie Dykes; Richard Von
Olsen; Michael S. McCarthy; and
other; Max Laxas director of facilities
Steve Leben, Reflection presidential candidate, typified the tone of the debate when he asked the audience in his opening comments to "look beyond the elicited
Completing preparations for tomorrow's and Thursday's Student Senate elections, the Senate Elections Committee yesterday announced polling places and Senate questions that will accompany the election ballots.
Approval of additions to Malott Hall and Robinson Gymnasium by the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee appears likely, two members of the committee said yesterday after an hour-and-a-half tour of the two buildings.
From 8.a.m. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday, polling places will be open in the Kansas Union lobby, Wesco cafeteria, the west entrance to the fourth floor of Wesco, the Joybah Blvd. Information Booth and Learning Field, Warfield, Fraser, Learned and Green balls.
Polls placed for elections
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From 5 to 7 p.m. tomorrow, polls will be open in Lewis, Naismith, Oliver and GSP-Corbin residence halls; Battentfield Scholarship Hall; and the lobbies of Jayawhey Towers, Gatehouse, Meadowbrook and Frontier Ridge apartment complexes.
Hess is chairman of the KU subcommittee of the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
State senators Paul Hess, R-Wichita, and Joe Warren, D-Maple City, agreed with University of Kansas administrators that Robinson and Malott were obviously crowded. Hess, Warren and Joe Barday, an assistant to State Sen. Norm. Gear, R-Westwood, were on campus to review KU's fiscal 1978 budget.
Polls will be open tomorrow only in Martha and Malcolm halls. They will be in Murphy on Monday.
"I just didn't realize that Robinson had such terrible overcrowding problems." Hess said. "I think that both additions are very likely to be approved."
Polls will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Hashinger, Elsworth and J.R.P. residence halls; Douthart Scholarship Hall; Phil Delta Thema, Sigma Phi Epion and Beta Theta Pi fraternities; and Delta Delta
The questionnaire is composed of the following questions:
Hearings on the KU budget begin at the Statehouse tomorrow. Gov. Robert Bennett has recommended $5.5 million in first-year construction costs for the $6.7 million Robinson addition and $11.5 million Malott addition.
Have you ever attempted to apply for a scholarship or grant or loan from the University or any other lending institution? If so, have you ever had any problems in qualifying for or applying for any scholarship or grant? In addition, University office or lending institution.
From 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tomorrow, polls will be open in Delta Upsilon and Phi Kappa Theta fraternities and Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi Omega sororites.
Do you want the whistle that signals the ending of classes to be retained?
Would you like to see Jayhawk Blvd. closed to all traffic (except emergency vehicles, buses, medical and handicapped permit holders and other special vehicles) from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days?
Do you think that Watson Library should have a refreshment area?
Do you think that a refreshment area be included in plans for the program?
From there to the end of the debate,
Leben; Sheri Grey, Spectrum candidate;
and Randy McKernan, emphasizing their
competence in emphasizing their
position as a student body president and the qualifications of each candidate for vice president.
Should the University offer a one
hour credit course, the University
resource package is required.
Reflection coalition members moaned before Leben said that the committee's poll was too early to warrant that it hadn't been necessary to waste time polling more students. He said the poll he conducted for his campaign was different because it was a way to advertise the event.
They used part of their five minute cross-examination pattern to question the other patient.
"Is it safe to construe that your interest in polling students has increased tenfold since you began campaigning for president?" she asked.
McKernan asked Lieber whether he was qualified to direct the Senate after serving only one term as a senator. He asked Grey whether she was sufficiently versed in University policy, not having served on any standing committees.
Grey asked Leben of KU students during his chairmanship of the Senate Communications Committee and why that poll had included only 119 students while one conducted for his campaign included 1,200.
we're giving you tonight and look at our past records in the Senate."
The audience was quietly attentive, breaking into mild applause only a few times when a candidate presented himself favorably. They approached laughter only at skips of the tongue, such as when they directed a question to "Miss Leben."
Leben and McKernan faced the audience when directing questions or criticisms to their opponents but Grey, at the far left and table, looked directly at her opponents.
The candidates rarely answered a question without criticizing an opponent's position, but the criticism was never hostile or startling.
Grey criticized McKernan's plan for the money, saying, "I am not an economist, but I certainly don't see how we can let our donors and endowment Association and devolve itself."
Should it be mandatory?
Leben was questioned by the other candidates on his justification for planning to allocate part of the money to a Feedback program, when student response in the past had been poor and when the Senate wouldn't have the support funds for it in the future.
He criticized her coalfaction for not specifying the amounts they planned to spend on improving particular areas of recreational facilities.
McKernan was criticized by the other candidates for his advocacy of a faculty user's fee before he would consider enrolling them to pay a $140,000 recreational maintenance fee.
The issue of a $108,000 surplus in Senate funds was referred to throughout the debate.
"Sheri, how many basketball do you want to buy?" he asked.
His opponents also disagreed with McKernan on his projection of the ad-
The concern over an anticipated drop in enrolment is a political move by the administration to get students involved in recruiting. Lebae said. He cited figures that
See DEBATE page eight
Two thousand pipes give George real pizzazz
By RICK THAEMERT
Staff Renorter
The fragrance of spice and tobacco saturates the small pipe shop at 727 Massachusetts St. A mélange of pipes cling to the walls like a throne of silent sentinels.
A young Latin American student surveys the walls with wide eyes, then seeks out a man who's leaning over the counter. The man has slicked-back silver hair and sports a cowboy string tie around his green-check shirt. A wad of chewing tobacco bulges from
The man is George Wilson of George'sPipe Shop, and he has been selling pipes in the area.
"You might say I and a little advantage," Wilson, who resembles a heavy Milton Berle. said, "My dad owned a photography unit and when he died, I took over the building."
Wilson, 65, paces in back of the counter nervously. He says he started the business in 1949, when he got out of the service. He already had a collection of 125 nines.
Although he started the business with only
$2,000, he now has about $10,000 invested,
and the company is raising its capital.
"Hell, I've smoked at least 2,000 pipes in my life," Wilson says, switching his "chaw" to the other side of his cheek. "It's a pretty wild business."
Wilson attributes his expertise in pipes to the fact that he has seen many faces and places. His endeavors range from gas attendant in Kansas to soldier in India.
"I invacitate here and there," Wilson says,
straightening the shelves. "I can go into practically any town in Kansas and somebody says, 'Hi, George.' I don't know how many thousands I've ran through here."
Wilson says 50 to 75 per cent of his business is related to the University. He's bad professors who have been customers of him and his students, and dropped in to see him when they're in town.
Because many of his customers grow accustomed to their pipes, Wilson also does
"A guy in Salina can get attach to his pipe and break it. Hell, what he's going to do?"
Although it's cheaper to get a pipe fixed than buy a new one, many pipe dealers consider repairs too much trouble, Wilson says.
"There’s only one shortage in the business," he said. "If a pipe cannot be repaired, Wilson can."
if a pipe can't be repaired, Wilson can replace it with one of his 2,000 pipes.
The Latin American asks to see a large carved pipe Wilson has puffed on.
Wilson says his average pipe costs between five and seven dollars, but he has the same $125 for one-dollar pipe is a armful of black pipe that bears the sign, "$1. What can you expect." The $300 pipe stands nearly three feet tall and costs about $65 for car warrings. Wilson says it came from France.
He also has pipes from India, Algeria,
Italy, and Germany. He cooks a large pot of
a German wine with a steel lid, wine pipes, a three-foot pipe with a coconut bowl, a pipe in the shape of a candle.
Wilson says most pipes are made from Briar wood, although clay, gourds, corncobs and other woods often are used. Meerschaum, a coral-like, fossilized material found only in a small section of the ocean, is the most expensive pipe material.
"I'm the former specialist on water pipes because I was in India," Wilson blonded.
Wilson sells several thousand pipes a
Wood and meerschaum pipes change color as they age and therefore, are裂
open.
Wilson says one of his best sellers is the cornbac pipe many of which he regrettably never made.
sells several thousand pipes a
See PIPES page nine
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURI
George Wilson shows off some of his many pipes