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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
City government could be altered
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 7, 1977
Vol. 87, No. 84
See story page three
Vice chancellor selection to be made public today
The new vice chancellor for student affairs will be named sometime today, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said late last night.
Although Shankd didn't reveal the name of the new administrator, it was learned that the replacement was from an in-house employee other than the University of Kansas.
Shankel said the announcement was to be made jointly with the other institution at an undisclosed time today. Richard Rundquist, chairman of the search committee to select the new vice chancellor, said that he expected the announcement would be made at 10 a.m. today.
The position of vice chancellor for student affairs was left vacant after William Bafour, professor of physiology and cell biology at UCLA, departed last May to return to full-time teaching.
Since July, a search committee to select a
replacement for Balfour has reviewed applicants.
From a field of 120 applicants, the 11-member committee selected 14 candidates. The group met on December, after personal interviews were held at KU with the finalists, the names of three candidates were given to Shankel and Chancellor Archie Dykes to make a final decision.
The vice chancellor position was advertised nationally and selection procedures were based on affirmative action guidelines.
After a decision on whom to hire was made, the Office of Affirmative Action had to approve the selection before a job offer could be made.
Balfour, who joined the KU faculty in 1975 as an assistant professor in the School of Medicine, was appointed vice chancellor for the University before by former Chancellor W. Clark Weree.
Bailorf, in his 20 years at the University, has been chairman of the College Biological Sciences Committee and director of a series of in-service institutes in physiology for secondary school teachers of biology. He has also helped to direct the science and mathematics camps in the KU Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Debates scheduled for candidates
Since August, Donald Alderson, dean of men, has been acting vicechancellor for the university.
The vice chancellor for student affairs coordinates the functions of the offices of the dean of men, dean of women and dean of foreign students, admissions and records; student financial aid and housing; the Student Health Service; and the Kansas Union.
Earlier last month, Shankel said that the new vice chancellor probably would take office in April or earlier, but that it definitely wouldn't be later than July 1.
Bv MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Reporter
Two debates will give University of Kansas students a chance to appraise the candidates for student body president and student senate. The student Senate election Feb. 16-17.
The first debate, sponsored by the Senate, will feature both presidential and vice presidential candidates. It will be at 7:30 in the Jawahir Kroon of the Kansas Union.
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will sponsor a debate between the three presidential candidates at their house, 1918 Stewart Ave. at 8 p.m., Feb. 14.
Both debates will use a panel of three persons to ask questions of the candidates and a moderator to enforce a time limit on candidates' responses.
Sherri Grey, Spectrum presidential candidate, said, "Last year the questions from the floor were used to some detriment. These questions ought to reflect a little less experience in assessing the quality of the candidates better because of the quality of the questions."
KEVIN FLYNN, Elections Committee chairman, said last week that the committee had decided to use a panel because of the lack of evidence from the audience at last years' debate.
in the past those who've attended the debate have already had in mind whom they were supporting, and their questions showed it." she said.
TASHEFF SAID she thought the debate format would work well.
Panelists for the Senate debate will be Eldon Fields, SenEx chairman and professor of political science; Jim Bates, Professor and Tedle Tasheff, student body president.
Flynn said the committee had extended the duration of the debate to two hours this year because three teams, rather than two, were running.
Steve Leeben, Reflection presidential candidate, said the debate could be short.
"I think that's definitely too long a period for people to sit and listen," he said. "I think we could present our opinions in a shorter amount of time."
Although he said he approved the idea of a question asking, Leben had he hoped
the candidates could also question each other.
Flym said a moderator would be chosen from lists of 18 persons submitted by each of the 3 moderators.
The moderator chosen will limit candidates to three minutes in their responses and five minutes in their closing remarks. He will require candidates to answer questions directed to them, while allowing them to confer with their running mates.
For the first time, questions also will be directed to vice president candidates during the Senate-sponsored debate, Flynn said.
Charlie Mitts, Lambda Chi Alpha president, said his fraternity was spon-
sering a debate because members wanted to encourage students to vote.
"The goal is more student involvement," he said. "Last year, 20 persons attended the debate and about 20 per cent of the student body voted, which is ridiculous."
The fraternity hasn't set time limits, but it has selected three faculty members as panelists. They are Karlyn Campbell, professor of speech and drama; Ellen Gold, assistant professor of speech and drama; Emily Parson, professor of speech and drama.
Like the Senate debate, no points or evaluations will be given for the candidates' responses unless the panel reviews the answers and answers in general, Mitta said.
Faculty Follies
Works by "John Philip Booster" were performed rather humorously by members of the KU music faculty, Kenneth Smith,
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
professor of performance and Antonio Perez, assistant professor of performance, among others made their debut Sunday at the University of Florida.
Bennett approves new student loan program
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Reporter
A nonprofit corporation willing to administer $20 million in federally insured student loans (FISL) for Kansas students, at no cost to the state, sounded too good to bear.
So last fall, when the Higher Education Assistance Foundation of St. Paul, Minn., offered to handle the Kansas FISL program, Jerry Bergen and John Conard, Kansas to hold of Regents officials, began to give some flaw in the foundation's offer.
The result: "The foundation seems to be as absolutely pure as the driven snow," Conard, Regents executive officer, said last week.
Richard Hawk, the foundation's director, and the program could be under way by
AND GOV. ROBERT Bennett, at the Rengest' request, has asked the U.S. Office of Education to approve the Minnesota loan program, the guarantor for the FISL program in Kansas. In addition to guaranteeing loans made by commercial banks, the Minnesota foundation also would finance money directly from the banks were refuted loans by a commercial bank.
The foundation would operate in Kansas as it has for several years in Minnesota by financing its activities through the sale of revenue bonds.
Students would pay 7 per cent interest on the loans either while they were in school or when they are graduating. Parents whose income is more than $25,000 a year would pay the loan's interest while in school. Students dependent on incomes of less than $15,000 a year will have the loan and the interest after graduation.
GUARANTEED STUDENT loans now are available through commercial banks, but Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid at the University of Kansas, said many banks are unwilling to handle such loans.
"There's little, if any, inflow in these loans." Weinberg said. "Plus, the paperwork required of the banks by the federal government is amazing. Banks would rather just loan the money out to someone else or student at a profitable rate of interest."
"Those who do handle student loans do it mainly as a service to their customers' sons."
Banks now handle **8 million** to **10 million** in FISL in Kansas, according to Hawk, but it hasn't been done.
about 20 million if the Minnesota plan is approved.
BCAUSEO of banks' reluctance to make federally insured student loans—which carry a maximum interest rate of 7 per cent—the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK), a Topka-based student laborbystudy agency, to administer the FISL program.
Doug Oblander, ASK executive director, said he learned of the Minnesota foundation that had created a program to prepare a bill that would establish a state FISL guarantor agency. After talking with Oblander, Hawk need the need for an expanded FISL program in Kansas, Oblander said.
Hawk wrote the Regents, and soon the Regents, ASK and Hein were exploring the area. He then moved to New York.
HEIN INTRODUCED a bill to establish a student FISL agency, but he said he recommended that it lied dormant because the Minnesota foundation was involved that his proposed agency was modified after the Minnesota foundation and could be self-supporting after four years, but that a number of other businesses vantages Hein and disadvantages included the initial costs $125,000 the first year—
and Kansas inexperience in operating a self-supporting guarder program.
"The only advantage my bill has over 'asking the Minnesota foundation to come in would be if there were a way for the state government to do that," But I don't think that would be very likely.
"When Richard Hawk was in Topeka, grilled him for two hours like Perry Mason, trying to find the catch. The reading I got interested in students and their problems."
HEIN SAID he wouldn't recommend that his bill to establish a Kansas FISL agency be killed until approval for the Minnesota plan was certain. Hawk and Bergen said approval of the plan was almost certain, but not automatic.
The Minnesota foundation operated as a state agency for several years. Hawk said the foundation switched its status from state agency to private nonprofit corporation because of a new law that allowed the foundation to both make and guarantee loans.
Berengh said that because the foundation was going to become a lender, the governor of Minnesota asked Hawk to make the foundation a nonprofit corporation. Revenue bonds then would become the sole responsibility of the corporation, not of the
state of Minnesota. The foundation now
makes about $600 million a year in FISL.
IF THE Minnesota plan is approved, Hawk said, the foundation would incorporate in Kansas as a separate organization. The bank would sell revenue bonds to finance its operations and would deposit the money in the bank that gave the best returns. Hawk said the Minnesota founders of the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
"Kansas banks always will have the opportunity to bid for the funds," Hawk said, "but to protect the program, we have a reasonable rate of return on our deposits."
THE FOUNDATION has never crossed state lines, Hawk said, because its previous status as a state agency made it impossible to move into other states. If the program is not successful, the state said, the foundation might consider opening offices in other midwestern states.
bergen said loans under the program would be available to any student in a Kansas public or private college or applied to Kansas public school and also to Kansas in-out-of-state schools.
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Robinson can't handle increased HPER enrollment
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELI
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Swim classes are held at the swimming pool in Robinson, with enrollment in physical education classes up 100 per cent in the last four years. The pool, the only one on the collegiate swim teams and recreational swimming.
campus, is used for physical education courses, practice of both men and women's in physical education classes up 100 per cent in the last four years. The pool, the only one on the collegiate swim teams and recreational swimming.
The class sections are crowded, with 49 students in dance classes for which the
By DAYNA HEIDRICK
Staff Reporter
Enrollment in activity classes in the department of health, physical education and recreation at Kansas has increased 100 per cent in the last four years, even though KU, unlike many other universities and colleges, doesn't require physical education classes for graduation.
"Students feel a need to develop as total individuals, to be complete persons. They are interested in a total education, not just a job orientation," Wayne Ossess, chairman of the American Education Association, explain the increase in the number of students taking physical education classes.
Oness said that the number of students would be even greater if the department could handle more space for travel from offering more vented the department from offering more classes of classes.
"WELL MORE than 50 per cent of KU students had no opportunity to take dance, music or golf—they were closed after the first afternoon of enrollment." Osness said. "We could double the number of activities sections and still not meet the needs of the student."
recommended number of students is 30, he said. Swimming classes that should have no more than 25 students enrolled have 30 in a beginning swimming class and 39 in a water
Closed class sections affect physical education majors, who need the classes for graduation and must wait until they are ready to enter. Should should have taken as sophomores, he said.
THE ROBINSON facility, which houses HPER classes was considered inadequate to meet future needs of KU students when it was built in 1966.
Because only $1.5 million was available at the time, the current structure was labeled Phase I and plans were made to build the second phase II, if when funds could be made available.
Three years ago, preliminary plans were made for the construction of the Robinson addition. Final planning was completed last summer, and some considerations regarding approval of construction funds.
EVEN IF the addition were built today, it would be 30 per cent short of the instructional space needed, as determined by guidelines for space requirements and established need. With the increased enrollment, 209,941 square feet are needed altogether, but the new facility would increase the space to only 151,760 square feet.