Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Wednesday, February 2, 1977
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87,No.81
ough temperatures have risen somewhat during the day, nighttime lows have kept many sidewalks and streets covered with ice. Doug Ferguson, Wichita junior, found out on Friday that a $100 million federal grant had been awarded to
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Bowersock acquisition deferred
Not safe!
By JOHN McANULTY
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night discussed the Bowersock proposal, which could have long-range significance to the city. The council will use specific details could be studied.
The proposal, by Steven Hill, president of the Bowersock Mills & Power Co. and Fibreboard Inc., would enable city to the northeast corner of Massachusetts and Sikh streets to build a new city hall and develop recreational areas on the river
If the new city hall is located there, as set forth in the proposal, rights to the four acres
would cost $1. If not, the site would cost $25,000. The city would also gain two acres just to the east for use as a parking lot for about $20,000.
THE BOWERSOCK and Fibreboard companies own property surrounding the proposed city hall site. Officials of the company say that having the city ball on that site would increase the value of the adjacent land they own.
Mayer Fred Pence said he didn't want to make a decision yet because he didn't know whether he wanted the city to be obligated to build a city hall on the site. The city commission would have 60 days after approval of the proposal to decide on the city
hall before it the $25,000 would have to be paid to the Bowersock and Fibreboard companies.
HILL AGREED not to make the city pay
the $25,000 if legal problems made the city
overcharged.
Commissioner Barkley Clark said he was concerned that legal entanglements might force the city to wait until after the 60 days to make a decision.
Clark said he thought a proposed 99-year lease to the city for the Bowersock Dam was too long. Maintenance of the dam would be the city's responsibility under the proposal, and Clark said many things could change before the lease ran out.
A lease on the buildings would be for 30
Local clergy differs with Vatican
Rv MARV RINTOU!
Staff Reporter
Some Roman Catholic officials in Lawrence find themselves at odds with other priests and the Pope over a doctrine issued by the Vatican and approved by Pope Paul VI that the Catholic Church won't ordain women as priests.
**L'EADERSHIP** (bishops) seems to be against women being priests, so said, *many* women are *priests*.
The Rev. John Rossiter, a chaplain at the St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center, 1631 Crescent Road, said yesterday that he disagreed with the doctrine.
Father Rossiter declined comment on why he be disagreed with the doctrine but said opposition to the ordination of women was mainly determined by cultural differences.
The doctrine basically said that because Jesus was a man and chose only male apostles, only men could naturally be chosen for women, therefore, shouldn't be ordained.
"Whether or not the Pope is right is a subjective judgment. The Pope felt be was being faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ."
Father Rossiter was in agreement with Rev. Richard McBrien, a Catholic
theologian from Boston College, who had said, "There's a division between the church leadership and the scholarly community."
Father Rossiter defined the church leadership as the bishops and the scholarly community as the thinkers or theologians. He said he doubled that the Pope would reverse his decision in response to negative reaction.
"THE DECISION won't be reversed, at least not by Pope Paul," he said. "It would seem the Catholic Church in modern times respond to the majority or DESCISE."
The Rev. Michael Moriarty, of st. John's Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont, said in a speech on Saturday.
"Certainly, I agree with the Pope," he said. "It's a 2,000-year tradition. If Christ had wanted it changed, he would have changed it."
Father Moriarty said the ultimate decision of ordaining women rested with the Church, so that theologians "Don't have any say about it."
"Theologians these days are self-proclaimed and I don't hold with them," he said. "I go with the official Church at all times."
Plan eases staff's school costs
A new program introduced at the University of Kansas this semester is helping to provide financial assistance for costless expenses of University employees.
Staff Reporter
All employees of the University who have worked in full-time classified or unclassified positions for at least a year are eligible to enrol in classes included in the program. To participate, they must remain full-time employers for the program's duration.
years. The new lease would free the city from a complicated 1872 lease, which has hindered development of the riverfront and the harbor. In 1953, the built the first dam across the river. Therefore, the Bowersow company controls the land as long as it maintains the river.
The program, authorized by the state last year, covers the costs of tuition, required fees, books, laboratory fees and other supplies used by employees in the program. The program is offered at the University or at nearby schools. Traveling expenses aren't covered.
By BARRY MASSEY
adult education programs, or other courses approved by the chancellor.
PARTICIPANTS IN the program may take regular curriculum courses at colleges or universities near Lawrence, accredited by the College of Education vocational technical institutions, courses in
Thirty-one people have received financial assistance this semester under the program, Bill Hogan, chairman of the program's review committee, said Monday.
He said assistance averaged $15 to $20 for supplies and $4 to tuition, which pays for three credit hours at staff rates, which are $14 a credit hour.
HOGAN SAID that because the University had budgeted a limited amount of money for the program, requests for assistance were limited to $100.
Participants can take no more than three credit hours during their first semester in the program and no more than six credit hours after that.
To apply for the program, Hogan said, a person must submit an application to the program's review committee and qualify under one of two classifications:
Priority I: Immediate education or training that is required by the employee's department or division as a condition of employment, and that will provide skills or
knowledge for the person's current job.
The applicant must submit a letter of explanation from his supervisor when he applies under this category.
THE COMMISSIONERS agreed that the new lease could be what is needed to encourage private development of what they called a potentially attractive site.
The requirement of one year of continuous prior employment is automatically waived for employees who apply for assistance under Priority I.
Priority II: Education or training that is considered useful for the applicant's future in his job and that would enhance the usefulness of the employee to the University. An employee must have his application signed by his supervisor.
The benefits of the program, Hogan said,
Sister Mary Collins, associate professor of religion, said she thought the doctrine was correct.
"I THINK that it's unfortunate and that it is strange a more women from the church."
THE PROGRAM doesn't cover payment of educational costs of a University employee who wants to complete work for a "terminal degree"—the highest degree attainable in a field—that he started before becoming a University employe.
Sister Mary and Father Rositer said that even though the doctrine was approved by the Pope, it wasn't issued as an infallible doctrine. An infallible doctrine is a doctrine issued by the Pope when he is speaking for God.
Each semester a person must reapply for assistance from the program, Hogan said, and remain in good standing by maintaining his grades to the review committee.
will generally depend upon what each participant wants to accomplish. However, the participants' goals can differ.
"I SEE THEM as staff benefits which people can use to enrich their background, to help them towards a better job, or just to broaden their field of vision," Hogan said.
Although the program isn't designed to specifically help any one type of employee, Jeannette Johnson, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said recently that, it probably would most benefit those with low salaries.
However, Sister Mary said, many people will读 it as infallible.
"For most classified employees it will be very good," she said, "but its primary benefit will be to those employees with low salaries."
Johnson said that through the program a classified employee could take courses enabling him to get a better job or to move up in his civil service classification.
"My own personal ambition isn't to be a priest but I know and support several women," he said. "Even if I support the ordination of women, I personally believe that the Catholic Church isn't ready to deal with women and won't be for three to five 10 years."
Although the program was budgeted
$2,500 this季期, only about $2,000 was
awarded to applicants, Hogan said, and
the staff should as a reserve for un-
forseen expenses.
In other action, the commission decided to put to a public vote in the March 8 primary elections, on whether to use general obligation bonds to pay for the new Water Treatment Plant. The bonds, totaling $4.4 million, would be paid over 20 years.
SISTER MARY AGREED with Father Rossetter that the Pope wouldn't reverse his decision.
"I believe that his statement is sincere and comes from a belief in his own convictions," she said. "A future Pope could change the decision but not Fone Paul."
Lynn Taylor, dean of the School of
bachground, said his student, Prebystrian,
hajiun (Shaheen) Bashar, attended 20.
"The Pope has a tradition that I don't but we have some fine women prestige," she said.
Taylor said he doubted that the Pope would reverse his decision because he didn't think the Pope would be swayed by public opinion.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH had argued for years about the ordination of women and last year accepted it at their national convention. The church will be officially ordained beginning Jan. 1.
Many Catholic women attended the convention to support the ordaining of women in the diocese, the rector, of the Episcopal Church Trinity, 1011 Vermont, said. He said the women supported Episcopal women priests to gain support for their cause in the diocese.
The Rev. Mr. Matthews said that he favored the ordination of Episcopal women but that the Rt. Rev. Edward Turner, bishop of Kansas, wouldn't derrain them.
"the bishop is a traditionalist with a traditionalist viewpoint," he said. "He hasn't eliminated the possibility of anyone sitting at the present time he wouldn't do it."
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THE COMMISSION said that even though water rates would rise, the public would save $5 million by approving the bonds. If the bonds aren't approved, revenue bonds would be used, which the commissioners said would result in higher prices.
The commission also heard arguments by members of the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association for and against the park's wooden center in the Brook Creek Park area.
Opponents of the center said the existing neighborhood center would be adequate if it had to be replaced.
Advocates said the existing building wasn't large enough to hold all the activities.
Interim classes show big gain
Enrollment in the second University of Kansas intercession this year increased by 67 per cent over last year's interspection enrollment from about 600 to 900 students.
Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, yesterday released figures that show 907 places were filled in the intercession courses, which were held Jan. 31. Dyck said, however, that many students had more than one year actual total enrollment was only 905.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chairman for academic affairs and chairman of the interdisciplinary committee, said the study found 300 more than had been predicted last fall.
But future intercession enrollments may be down if bad weather occurs during energy shortages, according to Hutchison and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
Shankel said that "we definitely do have to consider the energy problem. Interaction serves a valuable function, but it's during its duration it's during the coldest part of the year."
Although the size of intersections may be diminished if the energy crisis grows worse, be said, KU still will have an intersection program.
A total of 52 course sections were offered in this year's intercession, both on and off the Lawrence campus. Classes at Lawrence in Ursuline Field Hall and Robinson Gymnasium.
Summerfield and Robinson were adequately heated during intersession despite last month's bad weather, Hutchison said.
The intersession committee will meet in about a month to consider ways of handling possible energy shortages during future intersecessions, he said.
Teletype to break sound barrier for deaf
Bv RICK THAEMERT
Staff Reporter
But unlike many deaf people, Ken Culver, president of the Kansas Association for the Deaf, and his wife, Peggy, refuse to be part of a silent, nonverbal group; they are pushing for improvements for the deaf.
Nothing appeared peculiar about the neatly trimmed, two-story brown house at the end of the street. Nor was there anything peculiar about its upper-middle-class occupants. The two smiling peering through the front door were two normal Americans, except for one thing. They were deaf.
ENTERTING THE HOUSE with Jeannie Ash, Tupeka senator (tol like an american in Paris—a
man of color) and a graduate of the U.S.
As greetings were exchanged, no words were spoken, only smiles and the modest, quiet sound of a laugh.
I was well aware that I had entered a world of communication of which I was totally ignorant, and that I faced a barrier that no person could overcome easily. I relied on Jeannie, who has no hearing impairment experienced with the deaf because of two deaf patients to help me break the communication barrier.
MR. CULVER motioned, and Jennie's quick eyes read his fast moving hands. She explained that he was eager to show me a machine that is rapidly becoming one of the deaf's greatest breakthroughs.
A last, a form of distant communication for the
customer, a mail deliverer, pointing to a large mailbox-shaped machine.
When the phone rings, he explained, lights throughout the house blink to signal the call and the telephone receiver is placed on a coupler beside the teletypewriter.
Mr. Culver explained, through Jeannie, that the
machine was a teletypewriter, and that it transmitted and received messages using electrical signals. For the deaf, the signals come from the telephone.
Except for several codes, such as QM for question and GA for go ahead, the message is nothing more than a phone conversation in written form.
THE PERSON placing the call type his message on a keyboard on the teletypewriter. The message is sent to the caller through the telephone.
through the telephone lines. When the message is received at the opposite end, the machine converts
The roll of paper in the teiletyepter writers remnants of an earlier conversation between the Culvers and Jennie. Except for several codes, such as QM for question and GA for go ahead, the message is nothing more than a phone conversation in written form.
THE CULVERS and Jeannie own two of only one telephone teletypewriters (TTYs) for the deaf in Lawrence, but there are hundreds more throughout the United States and in 10 foreign countries. The
owners are linked by an international TTY telephone book.
Since the first TTY was installed in Lawrence more than two years ago, interest has grown and regional TTY meetings now draw up to 50 people, Mr. Culver said.
However, interest in the system is lacking in some crucial areas. Despite requests by TTY enthusiasts, the Lawrence Police Department hasn't installed a machine.
Consequently, deaf people must channel emergency calls through the Ottawa Police Department which owns a TTY, and that can mean loss of valuable time.
Mr. CULVER said the installation of TTYs wasn't costly. In fact, old or out-dated machines telephone Co., and Western Southwestern Bell machines are purchased. The teletypewriter in the Culvers house is a $20,000 model which Mr. Culver builds. The teletypers usually cost between $100 and $200, he said.
The major expense of the TTYs stems from the phone company's long-distance rates, Mr. Calver said. When TTY users are charged for long-distance calls while operating the machine, the time-consuming typewritten conversations run up phone bills.
ALTHOUGH MR. CULVER said he hoped that one day there would be discount rates for TTY owners. The only way to shorten conversations now is to talk on a machine or on a call机 that costs several hundred dollars.
Mr. M. Curley raised his arms in a universal gesture
Mr. Culver raised his arms in a universal gesture
ringing phone. His eyes, and those of his wife, immediately looked up to the brightly flashing lights. They pointed up, then laughed heartily, obviously aware of the surroffed look on my face.
MRS. CULVER came in from the kitchen making a stirring motion with her hand and looking
. . contrary to what most people think, lip reading isn't widely practiced and is difficult to master because there are many styles of language and many ways of moving the mouth.
Jeannie said that when the Culvers were home alone, they waited at least eight rings before they answered to discourage calls other than TTY owners. However, when their daughter, who can hear, is home, she answers the phone. If there is no TTY call, she answers the TTY call and places the receiver on the coupler.
inquisitive, Jennie said Mrs. Cuver was asking me whether I'd like coffee.
When she returned to the kitchen, Mr. Culver and Jeannie began telling me of another possible improvement for the deaf, called Line 21. Line 21 would be simple written captions that would accompany all television show but would appear only in the homes of those who had the Line 21 attachment. There now is only one with captions—the 11 p.m. news on channel 11.
DESPITE THE difficulty of reading lips, Jeannie said, Mrs. Culver knew everything about the soap operas and understood them better than Jeannie did.
Jeanne said that contrary to most people think, lip reading isn't widely practiced and is difficult to master because there are many styles of language and many ways of moving the mouth.
"Come on now, is she really deaf," Jennie said, looking skeptically at Mrs. Culver and laughing. Mrs. Culver nodded and nudged a definite "yes." In reading Mr. Culver is, in much easier to
lip reading. Mr. Culver said, is much easier to misunderstand than sign language.
He said many people in the Lawrence area doubled the adequacy of sign language teachers, some of whom are teaching a new type of sign language that uses more grammar and often causes problems for young children when they grow older and must switch to the standard method.
Mr. Culver handed me a piece of paper containing all the letters of the alphabet illustrated in sign language. He smiled kindly, his face much more expressive than that of the average person, who often leans on words to communicate. He then turned and motioned to Jeannie.
"He said he'd like to see a sign language class at all the universities, and also a class for professional services, so that doctors, lawyers and all professional people could communicate with the deaf," she said. "He hopes somebody KU and K-people have teachers who can teach deaf people."
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