THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.67
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Children's story as opera at KU
Tuesday, November 30, 1976
See story page seven
Regents count on budget approval
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Hope still lingers for some of the University of Kansas' capital improvement bids, despite warnings of a tight state budget in fiscal 1978.
Although Gov. Robert Bennett said at budget hearings earlier this month that he might fund only cost-saving initiatives, only 25 million is counting on at least $15 million for capital improvements—enough to fund more than $8 million worth of projects applied in the state. A quarter and a fifth are million in new projects.
The list, revised after Bennett criticized it for requesting an unrealistic amount of state funds, includes the computer center, the Robinson Gym and Malot Hall additions, a KU Medical Center Family Practice model clinic and planning money for a solid waste energy plant at KU. The list was trimmed from 68 to 21 items.
The computer center was KU's only capital improvement request retained by James Bibb, state budget director, who cut requests including funds for additions to Robinson Gymnasium and Malet Hall. The 1975 Kansas Legislature had already appropriated $1.8 million from the fiscal 1978 budget for the computer center.
AT THEIR MEETING on the KU campus last week, the Regents approved a revised list of capital improvement priorities for six Regent's schools. The original priority list, presented at the governor's budget hearings, didn't include any capital improvement from the seventh Regent institution, the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
WARREN CORMAN, Regents' facilities officer, said at the Regents' Building Committee meeting last week that the meeting of 21 items limited requests to $20.079.900.
State officials have assured the Regents of $15 million, he said, and there's $4 million or $5 million that could be available to the state agency that makes the best appeal.
"We may not get all of that, and we may get more. I'm still not illomatic," he said.
During the priority reshuffling, $100,000 in planning money for KUUs solid waste plant facilities would be added for inclusion at the tailend of the revised list. Bennett has said some of his main concerns are increases to cover increased waste costs and energy conservation authority.
KANSAS STATE University's requests for energy consumption improvements is still number one on the revised list. A total of $420,000 for power plant improvement requests were requested.
The Family Practice clinic and the Robinson Gym addition remained the next highest priorities, but the position of other requests was changed slightly.
However, a number of requests from both the Lawrence and Med Center campuses were dropped from the list. Those Lawrence projects dropped were renovation of Linder, Marvin and Green halls, restoration of Spooner Museum and new curtains for Hoch Auditorium. At the Med Center, requests for a new library, a new nursing facility, a medical center and an elevator and purchase of land around the Med Center were dropped.
In addition to the priority listing, the Regents approved a separate request for energy consumption funds. Of a total request of $2.5 million for all the Regents' capital funds, more than $10 million. The money would install capacitors, double glaze and storm sash windows and insulate and weatherstriber buildings on the Lawrence campus. It would replace and double glaze windows and condition-building systems at the Med Center.
GLEE SMITH, Regents' chairman, said "We're asking for what we think is the minimum necessary and don't expect to get less than what we ask for."
all of KU's proposals on the Regents' agenda were approved unanimously.
See REGENTS page two
A 1947 Sittison Voyager is ready to fly after Jeff Moffet, junior, rescued it from an elderly woman's a年age a year. Mofet has been restoring the plan for about
Antique plane
year, but most of the restoration was completed before he got a manual that showed where parts fitted and where they went. See story page five.
Library expansion recommended
By PAUL ADDISON Staff Writer
The complete remodeling of Watson Library and the construction of a library on the site of the present military science building are the main recommendations of a new report by the Libraries Facilities Planning Committee.
Appleberry named college head
Staff Writer
By DEB MILLER
Appleyberry was named to the office last month on the Board of Regents meeting in Lawrence.
James Appleberry, assistant to Chancellor Archie Dykes, said yesterday that his new job as president of Kansas State University in Pittsburg was a good experience.
He will assume the position Jan. 18, replacing George Budd, president since 1965, who announced his resignation last spring. After a sabbatical next semester, Budd will return to Pittsburg State in the fall as a professor.
APPLEBERRY WAS one of five finalists recommended to the Regents by a Pittsburgh State advisory committee composed of alumni, faculty members and students.
Those five finalists were chosen from 160 candidates, most of whom were senior
college and university executives, from all parts of the United States.
Appleberry, who is a professor of administration, foundations and higher education, has been involved in several programs at the University of Kansas while serving as assistant to the Chancellor, Professor of Computer Science development, new and improved programs at the KU Medical Center and Outreach programs.
MANY OPPORTUNITIES exist for
burgel State, Appleapple said in press
release.
"The college can provide a high quality education for students and assume a leadership role in inventive and cooperative activities," and indeed, the entire state," he said.
Appleberry will hold a news conference
dece. 9 at Pittsburgh State, which has an
enrollment of 5,600, to get better acquainted with students, faculty and administration.
Appleberry said that he had no new programs to implement at first because the first few weeks would be a time of learning. "We're just trying to build all of our planned ideas," he said.
Appleberry came to KU in 1973 as a fellow of the American Council on Education in the Office of the Chancellor. He has a B.S. degree, and M.S. degree and an Ed.S. degree from Oklahoma State University and an education doctorate from Oklahoma State University.
He is listened in "Who's Who Among Authors and Journalists," "Contemporary Authors," "Personalities of the South" and "Leaders in Education." He is also the author of several dozen articles, bulletins and television programs.
Appleberry said there were no plans for his replacement yet at the University.
The report was sent last week to Del Shankel, executive vice chairman, who will in turn submit it to Chancellor Archie Dykes. If approved, Shankel said yesterday, the report will become part of the University's planning goal and may be used for the 1979 request of preliminary planning money to the state's budget director.
The planning committee said in the report that two major facilities were needed to provide the University library system with more flexibility and to allow library services at Watson to focus on the humanities, the social sciences and library processing.
THE REPORT recommends that Watson Library be remodeled throughout so that ventilation, plumbing, lighting and acoustics are in top condition. Walls and other barriers should be removed to alleviate frustration of library patrons and inefficient organization of library services, the report says.
The new structure would include reading space for about 3,000 users with full reference and circulation services, accommodation for microphones, equipment and group study rooms, space for periodicals and documents and space for staff. The report recommends that the new structure be made to function indefinitely as originally planned, and entirely new library building. It is hoped that the building would relinquish space
now occupied by departmental libraries in Strong, Malet, Marvin and Murphy halls. Collections of science, engineering, business books would be housed there.
FINANCIAL ESTIMATES for the remodeling of Watson and the new library will be made available after Shankel has reviewed the report.
In making its recommendations the planning committee considered long-term projections of student numbers and volume holdings. By the year 2000, it is expected that the libraries' present holdings of about 1,700,000 volumes will have increased to more than 3 million documents will more than triple from half a million to about 1,700,000.
Concern about conditions in the University's library system has existed for more than a decade. In 1965, Robert Downs, dean of Library Administration at the University of Illinois, who had been a professor at the University, Facilities Commission to survey space needs, found a deficiency of about 44,000 square feet.
In 1971 an investigation by Louis Krueger, a in私人 an investigation by Louis Krueger, a stated that Watson needed major remodeling because the instrument inappropriate for meaningful library use."
A REVIEW VISIT by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
nursery space and funds must be corrected if the University was to maintain high quality undergraduate and graduate programs. That report led to the formation of a new library committee which presented initial recommendations in November 1975. The committee elected to either replace all present library buildings with a new structure or renovate Watson Hall, which is now the University administrators decided to pursue the second recommendation.
Last week the Kansas Board of Regents criticized Watson for its lack of space and
Job applications for Kansan staff now available
Applications for Kansan staff positions for the spring semester are available in 105 Flint; the Student Senate office, 105B of the man of men's and dean of women's offices.
The deadline for applying is noon Thursday. Interviews will be conducted by the spring editor and business manager Thursday afternoon and Friday.
An interview scheduling sheet is posted outside the Kansas newsroom, 112 Flint.
9-year-old girl harmonizes with KU music group
Bv MERLE GOLDMAN
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Birgit Jander in rehearsal
A slender, blue-eyed 9-year-old girl picks up a recorder and begins to play. She blows a sweet and a甜 airy tone and sits perfectly still. She is dwarfed by a group of University of Kansas students as they play recorders in pleasant harmony.
Little Birdgirl Slander isn't someone one would expect to find rehearsing in Murphy Hall. And for many people in the Collegium, Birgit is an engina. She is the quiet little German girl who appears in a rehearsal in September and has faith that she will succeed.
Earlier this semester, when Birgitt's mother talked to Daniel Politikos, associate professor of music history and director of the Collegium, to ask whether she could play with the group, Politikos was surprised.
The scene is a rehearsal for some of the players in the Collégium Musicum, a performance group in the School of Fine Arts, dedicated to music from the Medieval, Baroque and Renaissance periods.
"WE THOUGHT 'hmmmmy, maybe, maybe not,' but she did quite well." he said.
Everyone in the group likes Birgit, he said, but she is always very quiet.
"I don't think she's ever said more than 10 words to me." he said.
Birgit is one who speaks through her activities. Behind the plagid face and shining blue eyes is a mind with many interests.
IF she is asked why she likes the recorder, the answer will be silence. But Birgit readily will play a duet with her mother. She won't say whether she likes arts and crafts better than music, but she will show a colorful picture of a parakee she made by quilting construction paper. The picture was exhibited at the Lawrence Arts Center last year.
During an interview last week, Birgit sit in her living room, before a large picture window. The view is of a large field, and the room, filled with modern wood furniture, looks like an extension of the nature around it. Birgit's 7-year-old brother is on the wood coffee table and pointed to the sanders" two parachutes. They make a lot of noise when Birgit plays the recorder, he said.
HIRGIT, DRESSED in a red sweater and brown corduroy jeans, said that she liked to listen to the sounds of the birds outside, especially cardinals. She then opened up a music-writing pad to show the music she has written.
"I DON'T think they learn enough in school here," she said. She gives her three children a class in German language and literature every week, and they speak both English and German and literature in school. When Janda, M.janer, Janda said that the children were busy and didn't miss it.
she flipped through a few pages and stopped to play her original melody, "You Walk Forward and You Breathe Backwards," and then read the words to songs written in "Biritg language." German in reverse. She pronounced, without hesitation, the words to a song called "Tigibt Dnal" and turned to the empty pages in the back of the book.
The Janders came to the United States six years ago when Rudolf Jander became a professor of systematics and ecology and entomology at KU. Mrs. Jander, who has a Ph.D. in biology, helps her husband with his work and stresses her children's needs.
"I'd like to combine all the words into one big piece," she said. "There's enough room here."
Every morning before school, Mrs. Jander said, Birtig practices recorder for a half hour downstairs while Albret plays upstairs. Birtig's older brother George, 11, isn't interested in music, she said. He studies Latin with a tutor.
Neither of Birgit's parents is a musician, but Mrs. Jander said it was traditional for children to play the recorder in Germany. Birgit began to play about three years ago, Mrs. Jander said, and has been studying privately ever since.
Mrs. Jander said she asked if Birgit could play with the Collegeium because she didn't know of any other recorder group in town. In Germany, she said, children start recorder when they are 5 or 6 years old and the departments of parks and recreation in most cities sponsor music for children. But in Hillcrest School, where Birgit is in fourth grade, she said, there is no recorder group and children don't play in musical ensembles until fifth grade.
Mrs. Jander said she wasn't sure that Birgit was good enough for the Collietum, but Glen Corkerham, Vicksburgh, Miss.
graduate student and assistant to Politeke in the recorder sections of the Collegium and who also is Birgit's private instruction.
Cockerham said that Birgit would play in a Collegium recital
ccc. for the Church of St. James, preparing for the choir
touring with Birgit and Birdit is a fast learner.
"SHE MIGHT not get it the first time but by the rehearsal is over, she'll have it," he said.
The Collegium comprises three recorder groups and two sections of vocalists.
"You can get to a moderate level fairly easily," he said. "But then to get to the level of an artist, it takes practice and ability."
Pollutte said that the recorder, an ancestor of the flute, was easy to begin to play.
as well as style.
The fact that Birgit already has gained proficiency with the recorder confirms a theory that Cockerham has about children and music.
"It shows that if kids are given the opportunity, they can develop at an early age rather than being restricted to joining a sports team," said Doyle.
"In her own quiet way she seems like a very alert and intelligen't young girl," Politke said. "But I can thoroughly understand her timidity when she is suddenly popped into a world of adults with no one of her own age."
But despite Birgit's play the recorder well, the inner life of this young musician remains a riddle to her teachers.
Cockerham he said he got a glimpse of Birgit with her peers when she was dancing at the German Club's Oktoberfest.
But perhaps the only way to know what "Bigrit Land" is like is to read a translation of her song with that title:
The Land of the sky
I come to you.
The Land of the dreams
full of gold and silver.
land of God.
no art there
in the favorite land of the dreams."
'Birgit Land. The land of the moons.