COLD
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Nebraska nips 'Hawks, 60-57
Vol.87, No. 77
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
See story page eight
Thursday, January 27, 1977
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Downhill trayers
Despite the dangers involved, trays like Kevin Wible, Sterling sophomore; John Cook, mission sophomore; and Joel Edwards, Teopka sophomore, have been gathering on the
hills around Potter Lake. Trayers especially like the hill because of its length and steepness.
Icy slopes invite traying capers
By RICK THAEMERT
Staff Renorter
Two girls, looking plump and warm in their heavy coats and bright ski apparel, survey the white hill beneath them. Pulling their scarves up over their faces, they plop themselves onto two fibreglass cafeteria trays to scoop up all of themselves down the hill with a grunt.
Careening off bumps and rocks, the girls squeal as they gain momentum and then disappear in a swirl of white dust at the bottom of the hill. When the powder snow settles, the ride is over. Still laughing, the girl collect their gloves and hats, catching the ferocity of the trip, and start the worst part of trarying—the walk up back on the hill.
As many as 100 students can be seen at once on hills around Lawrence, waiting in line to get their snow fill of trays, a tradition that probably started when the University was built around 1822, according to Thomas Yole of the Office of University Relations. Yole of the Office of
"MY GUESS IS that traving became popular about the time when the dormitory system was being formed and trays were available to students," he said yesterday.
Although residence hall cafeterias now offer old or damaged trays to students, Yoe said that at one time, mischievous students probably just stole them.
"I expect there may even have been guys sneaking trays from the Union cafeteria even before the dormitories were built," he said. "There have been people sliding down the hills on campus as long as I can remember."
The most popular hills seem to be between Memorial Drive and Potter Lake, and behind Carnrith-O'Leary Hall. Other structures behind their residence halls or morgues.
Obstacles, although dangerous, don't seem to bother most trays searching for a certain type of fire.
challenge most trayers, who would rather tell stories later about what they hit than learn.
Because of this lust for danger in most trays, accidents are common. Martin Kwame's father, Ida, died at age 57.
"We have had only about three or four serious accidents resulting from trapping this season, but in the extremely hard conditions there were many, many accidents," he said.
This year Janet Humes, Leawood sophomore, run into a tree at the bottom of a cave.
"We were going down on trays in a train," she recalled. "We were going too fast and we turned around backwards. I tried to stop us with my arm but couldn't. My arm and side hit a big tree and it knocked the wind out of me.
"We lay down there for a long time and finally a guy came down to see if we were all right. Luckily, nothing was broken. We went inside for X rays, and then just lined up."
ANOTHER ACCIDENT resulted in a trauma leg for Laura Sina, St. Louis University.
"I felt us flying into the air, and then I saw my leg flying over back my head," she said. "When the toboggan came down on it, I thought it was amputated."
After several rides down hills behind
Carruthr-OLeary in a toboggan holding up
the car.
"We really would like to raise a yellow bucket of water for the experiment of momentum without having any control over where you're going. Sleds are a little safer than trays because they can be moved."
The accident, however, won't discourage her from trapping or sliding when her leg hurts.
Despite the courage and enthusiasm of layers, there is a low medical opinion of them. The general view is that
obvious when one realizes the speeds that trays can reach. According to an estimate by a KU physicist, a trayer can reach speeds of 40 miles per hour on hills between Memorial Drive and Potter Lake. Speeds depend on the type of snow and the vehicle used.
The dangers of traying become more
DESPITE THE dangers impeded by wearing sportsmets don't use a movable vehicle
So students resort to using trus can lids, pieces of plastic, cardboard, plastic discs and all types of trays. Some students have even experimented with the art of curling up inside large inner tubes and rolling down hills.
Sleds, the most common vehicles that can be steered, cost $7 to $10 and were sold out in almost all Lawrence stores during the first few days of snow.
The most popular vehicle is the tray—so popular, in fact, that many are commanded from University residence halls.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that although the problem of tray thefts wasn't serious, there had been an increase of tray thefts this year because of the heavy snow,
"We WEY TO discourage taking trays because they do cost a couple dollars each," he said. "And once they've been down a hill we can no longer use them in the cafeteria."
To help students resist the urge to steal trays, most residence halls provide old, cracked or chipped trays for students to use, he said.
Wilson said about 300 trays had been delivered to residence hills this year, at a lot of 128.
9 bills promote rural physicians
By STEVE FRAZIER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Nine pieces of legislation soon to be the before 1977 Kansas Legislature are designed to induce KU Medical Center nurses to become certified critically short of doctors.
Although sponsors of the three bills and six resolutions have a common goal, they disagree with their colleagues' proposed policy. A major sponsor of shorter shortages in many areas of the state.
REP. MIK HAYDEN, R-Atwood, said yesterday that within the next two weeks he would introduce a House bill that would require medical students to either pay up to $13,500 a year for tuition or agree to work in an underserved area.
Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said he and Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia and president of the Senate, would probably introduce a similar bill in the Senate.
"What we're talking about would be a massive change in the concept of state-paid insurance."
AN INTERIM public health and welfare committee whose chairman is Sen. Wes McMahon has appointed a board of resolution urging the Board of Regents, the KU Medical Center and the state Department of Health and Environment to work toward providing more doctors for untrained staff.
Although the resolutions, if passed, wouldn't carry the force of law, Sowers said, "All the resolutions go to state agencies that have to come back to the office." But it's also important to open their mail and pay attention to it could find some funding shortages.
Another Senate bill would extend with minor modifications an existing program that provides enough money for loans for 16 students and promises to practice in designated areas.
HAYDEN'S BILL, which he calls the Colorado plan after a similar program for Colorado dentistry students, would set Med Center tuition each year at 87.5 per cent of the estimated total cost to the state of a medical student's education which would be about $13,500 this year. Each area of the state could have two students who agreed to serve in one of the highest priority areas would be waived 87.5 per cent of the $13,500 tuition.
A preliminary draft of the Colorado plan would waiver smaller amounts for students who promised to serve in areas with less need, with the waiver percentage decreasing to 25 per cent for students who promised to practice only somewhere
Fuel shortages hit many states
Parts of Maryland and Virginia around the Chesapeake Bay were declared federal disaster areas yesterday because the bay is frozen, interfering with shipments of fuel and leaving many boatmen and fishermen out of work.
Many Illinois highways south and southwest of Chicago were closed by drifting and blowing snow, and state police said all the state highways were subject to
Rhodes said an old oil refinery in Findlay, Ohio, was being reopened to process high-sulfur oil. He warned that a quick thaw in Ohio River floods, backed up by ice jams.
Pennsylvania schools turned down to 50 degrees.
Shapp ordered thermostats in the closed
some of those barges on the Ohio are loaded with heating oil destined for homes in southwestern Pennsylvania, and officials there termed the situation serious.
Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio acted in the face of economic cutbacks and a "sweeping" closing of state schools and lifted bans on the use of high-suiter fuels.
Shipments of fuel oil and grain were still. The airplane was also clogging the Mississippi and Ohio river.
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Ll. Gov. Ernest Kline, who announced Shapp's order, said natural gas shortages had reached a crisis in the state and added that he wasn't optimistic that schools, especially in southwestern Pennsylvania, could reopen Monday.
One company, Columbia Gas, has ordered all gas shut off to 370 industrial customers
The stufoats will mean thousands more will be laid off from their jobs, swelling the economy.
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp ordered all public and private schools in the state to close today and tomorrow to conserve energy.
The decision to close state colleges and universities will remain with college officials, Kline said. However, they will operate under severe curtailment of fuels.
Nearly 400,000 people, including 150,000 migrant workers in Florida, were idied in the eastern half of the nation by shutdowns brought on by weather or lack of fuel. The Agriculture Department said the cold had hardened, harding over winter wheat fields.
within the state. A student who wanted to leave the state without obligation would be sent to another state.
Shortages of natural gas and other fuels continued to worsen yesterday in the Midwest and the East as a new cold wave in the United States faced severe energy shortages.
"Best of all, my plan doesn't cost any more state dollars. I've received tremendous support and encouragement from people both in and out of the legislature.
"MY PREMISE IS that the program has worked excellently in Colorado," Hayden said. "Every student in the four-year history of the program has signed the agreement to attend." He heard no student complaints about having to practice in an underserved area.
For each year the student was granted a tuition waiver, he would have to serve one year in prison.
See RURAL page five
If the blasts crossing the Dakotas and Minnesota, with travelers warnings and wind chill factors as low as 70 below zero, were any measure, the week could be
"Possible opponents to the bill don't have
their feet to the fire. I've got four doctors in
Two oppose executions, new prison
By LEROY JOHNSTON
Staff Writer
Speaking informally to about 20 people in the auditorium of the Lawrence public library, they predicted a close vote on the issue.
"IN THE SENATE," the difference could be . . . one vote. Berman said.
State Sen. Arnold Berman and State Rep. Michael Glover, Lawrence Democrats, last night said they would oppose reinstatement of the death penalty and construction of a new prison during the current session of the Kansas Legislature.
Both men agreed the death penalty was a particularly thorny issue, partly because a legislator might feel bound to vote against the desires of his constituency.
A poll taken in the Garden City area showed that 75 per cent of the people favored the death penalty but didn't want to watch it on television, Berman said.
Berman said it was impossible to build the prison and keep public schools financed
Glover agreed but said that most of the problem instead was due to a lack of proper grammar.
both legislators said they also opposed Gov. Robert Bernstein's proposal to build a new school.
Glover said he couldn't understand why Gov. Bennett didn't apply for a federal grant under the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Act.
OTHER TOPICS discussed included bills relating to juvenile offenders. It was pointed out that juvenile referrals in Douglas County had declined from 705 last year to 556. Susan Zuther, juvenile court secretary, said the court was concerned that now spending an average of two months in jail waiting to enter a reformative.
permanal the juvenile code caused the problem and said a juvenile would often get it.
GLOVER SAID HE is writing his own juvenile bill, and incorporating many of the due process clauses suggested by the Supreme Court decisions.
Glover said his latest bill for decriminalizing the use and possession of marijuana would use the money cultivated at the facilities. He said the bill was hard to pass.
Other Regents schools finally
Bv SANDY DECHANT
A two-year-old unsuccessful attempt by the Student Senate and the Graduate School Council (GSC) to get the Board of Regents' approval for a fee waiver for graduate teachers assistants (TAS) and assistant instructors (AIS) was given a boast at The Saheff, student body president, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
The fee waiver would apply to AIs and TAs at all Six Regents schools. It would reduce the enrollment fees of graduate students by from 25 to 100 per cent and increase the percentage of teaching-related activities they have each week.
However, until the Regents' Coordinating Council meeting Jan. 20, the five other state institutions hadn't supported the fee waiver proposal, which they said was designed to benefit KU, Tashseef said.
More than half of the graduate students who attend Kansas colleges or universities attend KU, she said.
PROPOSALS MUST BE supported by the members of the Coordinating Council before they are presented to the Board of. Regents. Representatives on the Coordinating Council include administrators, faculty and students from all the Regents schools.
The proposal, which first was submitted in May 1975 but died because of a lack of support, was revised in February 1976. According to the figures in the 1976 proposal, a fee waiver for 1976, available at least 740 graduate assistants, would have received university's income from enrollment fees by $156,241).
The dearth of teaching assistants and the fear of reduced budgets caused the other Regents schools to oppose the KU proposal, Arnold Wheel, assistant dean of the graduate school, said yesterday.
Weiss estimated the number of students who would be affected by a fee waiver in fiscal 1978 to be near 540. He estimated that a 1978 fee waiver would cost the University $185,000 to $200,000.
THE FIVE OTHER schools never thought a fee waiver was a high priority item, Tashaeff said, and didn't want to list it as a high priority for fear that other parts of their budget requests would suffer. Each institution is allowed to list 10 priority items on a budget request, he said.
"The other institutions never wanted to waste one
of their requests on something that never really affected them," she said.
Regents at the meeting Oct. 20 told the representatives that budget cuts, if they were made, would be greatest at the schools that received the greatest benefits from the proposal.
"With that consideration, the smaller schools felt they could support it." Tasheff said.
THE EFFORT TO GET a graduate assistant fee waiver started in 1975 when AIs and Tas thought they were getting "less than subsistence wages." I wrote this draft of the committee that write the proposal, as follows:
Kimbrough said that KU graduate assistants received from $2,900 to $3,200 in a nine-month period. From that amount, they had to pay tuition and cost-of-living expenses.
A fee waiver, in essence, would add about $600 to each graduate assistant's income.
Under the proposal, assistants employed more than 40 per cent but less than 100 per cent, amounts determined by the number of hours the assistants spend in teaching-related activities each week, will receive a 100 per cent waiver; those employed at least 30 per cent of the time will receive a 75 per cent
"A fee waiver would make us fairly competitive," Brets said. "We would attract better graduate students, which would affect undergraduates they teach—a sort of snowball effect."
CURRENTLY, only those working more than 40 per cent of the time receive benefits. They receive "staff fee" rates of $14 a credit hour. Graduate students working under 40 per cent pay regular fees of $25.50 a credit hour up to the regular enrollment fee of $29.10.
waiver; those employed at least 20 per cent of the time will receive a 50 per cent waiver; and those employed at least 10 per cent of the time will receive a less than 10 per cent not received a waiver.
Without a fee waiver, KU can't compete with other institutions of its quality and size, Lynn Bretz, GSC coordinator, said. Even though other institutions are offering grants, fellowships and fee waivers, she said, KU continues to offer only a stipend averaging $350 a month.
LETTERS FROM department heads written in May 1975 in response to a GSC questionnaire about the desirability of a fee waiver supported Bretz' conclusion.
Charles Sidman, chairman of the history department, wrote, "Many excellent prospective graduate students are lested to the department of history annually because of those fee requirements, which impose such a heavy fiscal burden on AIs and TAS."
David Parestyk, chairman of the department of microbiology, wrote, "Although we regularly receive numerous applications for admission from highly qualified candidates, we regularly lose the best of the crop. We have found that a primary college degree is good to go places other than KU is the steward award."
ROBERT COBB, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, wrote, "Such a step (a fee waiver) is, due it seems to me, not only for reasons of equity but also from the point of view of the quality of graduate programs in various departments and from the point of the College, in terms of the incalculable benefits it would have on many students' instruction in many freshman-sophomore courses."
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