Carter, inaugural combine savvy, emotion
Bv YAEL ABOUHALKAH
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON-Barely a few days into his new role as President of the United States, Jimmy Carter is showing some of his great qualities that made him an enigma to his country.
After all, who else would have recognized the emotional effect that a post-Inauguration walk from Capitol to the Capitol building press and millions of television viewers?
on the first day of a shaky honeymoon with 215 million people?
Who else would have issued a pardon for drafted drivers, a daring but decisive move
JIMMY CARTER'S sense of timing—his feeling for the emotional pulse of
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Americans—has been keenly on display the past few days.
For now at least, America's bubble of good will toward Carter remains unchanged.
The walk on Inauguration Day was only a bit longer than a mile. But it was a masterpiece of publicity, providing reams of copy for the national press and a bonus that kept them on their toes. One had one network commentator incessantly babbling at the "uniqueness of it all."
long as he continues to pull political strings as he did last week.
CARTER'S MOVE Friday to pardon thousands of Vietnam war draft evaders evoked most stunned responses on Capitol Hill, with a majority saying those lines during his campaign, but he had
reportedly backed off in the past few weeks because of opposition from Conqress.
Carter made his choice perfectly clear Friday, going over Congress' head in issuing the pardon. He thus fulfilled what he had said during the campaign:
"I don't have the desire to punish anyone. I'd just like to tell the young folks who did defect to come home, with no requirements for it. They're humanitarian capacity, or anything," she said.
THE MAN CARTER replaced, Gerald Ford, bask in the light as
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, January 24, 1977
Vol. 87, No. 74
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Gov. Bennett will propose 1978 KU budget increases
By STEVE FRAZIER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A 7 per cent faculty salary increase, an 8 per cent increase in other operating expenses and additions to Robinson Gymnasium and Malot Hall highlight the 1978 University of Kansas budget Gov. Robert Bennett was to recommend today to the 1977 Kansas Legislature.
In his annual state budget message, delivered to both houses of the legislature at 11 a.m., Bennett was to propose substantial restoration of the cuts James Bibb, state budget director, made in the KU budget recommended by the Board of Regents.
BENNETT'S FISCAL year 1978 KU budget totals $99.2 million for the Lawrence campus and $88.3 million for the KU Medical Center. The Board of Regents requested $103.9 million for the main campus and $93.2 million for the Med Center, but Bibb cut those figures to $88.8 million and $36.3 million respectively.
These 1978 recommendations compare with the estimated 1977 budget for $9.5 million for the Lawrence campus and $8.16 million for the Med Center.
Bibb had proposed only a 3.5 per cent faculty salary increase, but Bennett, defending his 7 per cent increase in a prepared text of his budget message, said, "With the implementation of this recommendation we will be more competitive in
BENNETT REJECTED the Board of Regents' 10-year, $429 million building program, saying, "the project is ambitious, but I fear it is well beyond our current or projected capabilities. Elimination of many desirable projects during the next several years may be painful, but our fiscal stewardship requires no less."
the academic marketplace, giving greater assurance of our accuracy and trust. We were qualified to deliver.
BENNETT ALSO approved $523,336 for library improvements at the Regents institutions, calling libraries "the heart of the institutions of higher education." He said he would appoint a special task force to study Regents institutions' library needs.
However, Bennett recommended funds for the "most critical" building needs at Regents institutions, including $8.8 million in capital improvements for the KU main campus. If approved by the legislature, this money would go for the construction of the new computation center; additions to the university's library; and former Wesley Foundation Building; and improvements to the Kansas Union, dormitories and parking lots.
Other increases for the KU main campus include: 54 faculty positions and 18 supporting classified positions to meet increased enrollment needs; 37.5 classified positions for the new visual arts and law buildings, Helen Foresman Spencer
Museum of Art and the west campus; $101,838 to improve exhibition and security at the Spencer museum; $189,878 for library acquisitions, and $139,989 for staff and a mobile laboratory to study the chemical effect of irrigation waters in western Kansas.
BENNETT SAID his budget "provides significant expansion in the financing of the programs at the University of Kansas Medical Center and at its Wichita branch. All of the recommendations that I have made are essential if we are to make progress in addressing the health needs of our citizens."
Bennett proposed 57 new positions to strengthen nursing services at the Mad Center; 7.6 positions at the Wichita branch; 8.2 positions Outreach nursing and residency programs.
Brennett's concern that energy needs be met was reflected in his recommendation to pay utility bills and increases for projected 1978 costs. He approved $2.5 million for energy conservation measures and $100,000 to study future KU energy needs.
AT A NEWS conference yesterday, Bennett said he was pleased with his proposed state budget of $1.8 billion, saying he was trying to "put the budget back on the track" after what he said was a "spending spree" by the 1976 Kansas Legislature.
Photo by CORKY TREWIN
Bennett's recommended 1978 budget represents a 2.9 per cent increase over 1977. He said the state should try to maintain about a $100 million balance.
Inaugural salute
President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalyn, acknowledged cheers above a sea of hands and faces. The scene was one of seven Imaginal Ralls, this one occurring in
Regents approve increase in finances for libraries
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The Kansas Board of Regents Friday approved an "emergency proposal" to spend $80,000 on University of Kansas research. The university's hazards and provide more usable space.
If approved by the Kansas Legislature, the proposal, which is an amendment to the 1977 supplemental legislative budget request, would allow KU to rechannel some of an excess $1.1 million in tuition fees from a higher-grad than-expected enrolment in 1978.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said the money requested would replace some funding intended for library acquisitions, faculty positions to accommodate the increased enrollment, supplies and equipment.
"We'll have to wait on those things," he said, "because this is so urgent."
THE LIBRARY improvement money would correct safety hazards caused by inadequate lighting and low ductwork in the Watson Library stacks, Shankel said, and cleaning and cleaning in currently unusable areas in Watson and Spencer libraries.
He said the proposed work coincided with the University's long-range plan to improve its library system. Administrators decided a few weeks ago to ask that KU's supplemental budget request be amended to include the $380,000. he said.
Shankel said, "We'll have to wait on those things."
publication of notice of intent to issue $2 million in revenue bonds for the construction of the satellite union in a new facility. The public should approve the actual issuance of the bonds.
The board accepted low bids of $783,507 for work at the new KU Medical Center clinical unit.
Warren Corman, Regents buildings officer, said the contracts were "about the last to be awarded except for equipment contracts."
Local group backs 6 candidates
By PAUL ADDISON Staff Reporter
THE REGENTS ASKED Gov. Robert Bennett to arrange for the Higher Education Assistance Foundation, a non-profit agency guaranteeing student loans for higher education in Kansas. The foundation would finance a student loan program with revenue bonds and absorb administrative costs, all at no cost to the state of Kansas.
Participants in a Lawrence Citizens' Voice convention at Lawrence High School Saturday proposed community development programs and endorsed candidates for the coming Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence School Board elections.
Lawrence Citizens' Voice is a community group that thinks local city government isn't responsive to the needs of the average citizen.
After listening to speeches from candidates running for office, about 150 members voted to endorse Carl Mibek, Muriel Paul and David Hahn, city commissioner of South Dakota board candidates were Jane Fryman, Otis Vann and Ola Fryman.
SPEAKERS AT THE convention, the first in what organizers will be able a biennial event, stressed the need for the development of community 'grassroots' politics, and for city commission members to be more concerned with people's needs.
Candidates endorsed by the convention are under no obligation to campaign on the group's platforms, although Citizens' Voice members expressed hope that their platforms would be carefully studied and implemented by elected commissioners.
Opening the convention, Muriel Paul, chairman, said that in the past the Lawrence city government had catered to the neediness to the depriment of local neighborhood.
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and convention parliamentarian, said that if implemented, the model would be a model for other communities. The idea of the convention and the organization, he said, is to bring the people of Lawrence together to discuss issues concerning them. He added that many workshops during the convention outlined
'IT'S NO WONDER that in the last election only 20 per cent of Lawrence's registered voters said they support him.'
For neighborhood preservation, the group agreed that standards should be set up for insulating houses, that a recycling center should be opened in the city and that local efforts in solar and wind power projects should be encouraged.
Policy papers, formulated in five workshops during the convention outlined below.
Chancellor Archie Dykes withdrew a request to publish notice of intent to issue $2.6 million in revenue bonds for a parking lot at the Med Center. Dykes said he would resubmit the request when the legislature approved the proposal.
KU was authorized to establish centers for the study of aging at the Lawrence and Med Center campuses and at the Wichita branch of the Med Center. Shankel said this first step would draw together faculty involved in gerontology and help attract research funds. Eventually, he said, KU might offer courses in gerontology.
IN A REPORT on Lawrence schools, the prior said that reading should be the top priority in education.
They also said that they supported the ability of mass transit systems for Law enforcement.
should be gathered to stem the high rate of high school dropouts.
CITY COMMISSION and school board candidates at the convention had mixed feelings on whether they would carry out the group's platforms if elected.
"I'm not going to give blanket subscriptions to anything they said," Carl Mibke city commissioner said. "I don't care what he heard at the convention that bothered me."
However, Bill Hopkins, professor of human development and a school board candidate, said, "I will not be a candidate of Citizens' Voice for I think the choice should be to be free to grow, and to represent the interests of as many people as possible."
THE REGENTS ALSO approved
KU's whistle submits to the silent treatment
Staff Renorter
By BARRY MASSEY
A 64-year-old University of Kansas tradition may have ended in silence today.
With classes beginning today, the short, squat whistle perched on the roof of the University's power plant sits silently waiting.
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Firemen affixed through debris left after an explosion at 1831 Indiana St. destroyed a breezeway, a car and a car,
a power line. The house, whose value was estimated at $25,000,
was occupied by her and her mother escaped the house unharmed. See story page five.
*The House*.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Both KU campuses show record spring enrollment
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Reporter
Total first-day enrollment at the University of Kansas set a record, jumping 4.5 per cent from last spring, figures from office of Admissions and Records indicate.
The figures, aren't there until after the 202d day of classes, show a total first-day spring semester enrollment of 22,314. For both campuses, an enrollment for both campuses is 21,356.
The total enrollment increase of 696 came mostly from the Lawrence campus, which grew by 907 students. KU Medical Center and the university was up by 51, totaling 1,818 students.
Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, yesterday estimated that final enrollment for KU, counting late enrolments, would increase from final spring enrolment of 1976.
DVCK ALSO predicted that final enrollment for the Lawrence campus would be 21,560, an increase from last spring of 541 students. He said final enrollment at the Med Center would be 1,388, an increase of 61 from last spring.
"We're in pretty good shape on the hills and we don't need to harden the natural spring (emrolymph) drop."
The spring enrolment figures are about 8.4 per cent under last fall's record total enrolment, which was 24,372. The fall-to-spring decrease isn't unusual.
Although major problems weren't evident at last week's enrollment, students did have to content with tight enforcement of agging them to the job site in Post Unit. The ruling limits the amount of cash for change KU could keep on hand at Allen Field House.
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If change wasn't available, he said, students had to write checks for the exact amount of the fees or pay the fees in cash. Craig McCoy, comptroller, said Friday, "The situation improved after yesterday. We had to make extra runs to the bank then, with 10,000 kids coming back from skiing all at once and enrolling."
JERRY ROGERS, director of financialaid, said the lack of change, which was needed for students who paid fees withscholarship checks," was a serious problemWednesday. But if the change was less than$50. it was okay."
Besides being the first day of classes, today marks the beginning of an experiment that could permanently silence a brain cell, traditionally signaled class periods at KU.
As a result of talks throughout the fall semester between KU administrators, students and faculty, the whistle won't be used to signal class changes at the beginning of this semester, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
THE WHISTLE WAS last used during the fall semester.
Although the whistle's silence is only experimental now, the whistle may be discontinued permanently if no difficulties arise combined with the experiment, Shunkei said.
"I expect that we'll experiment for a couple of weeks and see how it works out."
Administrators received many complaints from people in the School of Social Welfare, the School of Journalism and departments at the University, Shankel said.
"The major complaints," he said, "came from the people closest to the whistle."
THE COMPLAINANTS generally charged that the whistle disrupted classes that were longer than 50 minutes and affected people's nerves. Shankel said.
Although no other method of signaling the class periods over the entire University has been established, he said, memos have been sent to all deans, vice chancellors and departmental chairmen explaining what is being done and why.
The 64-year-old tradition started in 1912, when a "Toot Manifesto" was issued to have a whistle, later nicknamed "Old Faithful", signal class sessions. The whistle was temporarily replaced twice during its 43 years of service, but it always returned to
See WHISTLE page 11