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Vol.87 No.66
Regents praise Watkins but find Watson lacking
Bv BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Staff Writer
Kansas Board of Regents members were in agreement yesterday in both their criticism of Watson Library and their praise of Wattles Memorial Hospital as they toured the two facilities in the first of a two-day meeting on the KU campus.
"I absolutely couldn't believe it," James Basham, Regent from Fort Scott, said after the election.
Besides an overall lack of space and personnel, some conditions presented fire
Requests for more classified staff positions and $189,870 for books and journals were cut last week by James Bibb, state budget director.
Walter Hiersteiner, Regent from Shawnee Mission, said he observed problems with personal safety, security of library property, acquisition of new materials, lack of space and limited personnel.
"It all seemed to be rather dramatic. We have a problem we're not going to be able to deter. We're well aware that an accreditation report of two years ago mentioned the acuteness of the problems here." Hiersteiner said.
A SURVEY OF THREE consultants two years ago reported that the KU library system was "undernourished in all of its parts."
Chancellor Archie Dykes said he was convinced the library would have accreditation problems with the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in their next visit unless there was additional financial support for the library.
The Regents currently are making a study of the library conditions of all the
Gee Smith, Regents' chairman from Larned, said libraries in all the Regents' schools need attention. Problems at KU are typical of problems at the other schools,
The Regents' schools are KU, K-state, Wichita State University, Kansas State College at Pitbush, Emporia Kansas State College at Salem, Emporia Kansas State College and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
BESIDES PROBLEMS with Watson, KU administrators also are concerned with space and personne problems and material and equipment needs at the School of Law Library and the Clendening Library at the KU Medical Center.
Reactions to student health services at Watkins Memorial Hospital were as positive as reactions to the library were negative.
Prudence Hutton, Regent from Newton,
said she thought the faculty was "won-
town" and would never work there.
Basham said he was impressed with the construction of the out-patient facility and the speed with which patients got in and out. He said, with no smell and no disairce, he said.
BESIDES THE tours yesterday, there were meetings of the Council of Presidents—a group of top administrators from the seven Regents' schools, and the Regents' Academic Committee, the Health Department, and the Institutions Coordinating Committee.
The Council of Presidents and the
Council of Directors will meet every month
preceding the board meeting.
In the Council of Presidents' meeting, the recent budget cuts were still a live tone.
KU's total request for the Lawrence campus of $101,727,242 was cut to $88,790,917. A $33.1 million Med Center request was cut to $3.6 million.
DUANE ACKER, president of K-State, said the schools compared notes on what their responses would be to Gov. Robert Rutledge to outline their operating budget priorities.
Bennett has asked each school to explain how it would spend the money if he granted them a 5 per cent increase over what they received in state funding last year.
ACKER SAID K-State's priorities would be a 7 per cent faculty pay increase—the amount requested by all Regents' schools, as well as increases in classified employee salaries and other operating expenses, had been cut from 10 to 5 per cent by Bibb.
KU administrators have also placed faculty salaries first on their list of operating budget priorities, followed by other operating expenses increases and funding for libraries and scientific equipment.
Most Regents' schools requested a 10 or more percent increase, but almost all in-
Dykes said KU's report to the Governor would be made immediately.
The plight of the Regent schools' capital improvements will be discussed at the next session.
BIBC CUT ALL capital improvements at all Regions' schools, except those for which past legislatures had already appropriated money. The computer center was the only capital improvement on the KU campus untouched by Bibb.
Topics discussed in the committee meetings yesterday will be reviewed at the board meeting today at 1:30 p.m. in the board room. The committee will be studied further in the committee.
KU topics to be reviewed by the Regents meeting include authorization of a parking lot for GSP and Corbin Halls, contract approvals for the KU Medical Center clinical facility, preliminary drawings of the proposed plan for the rehabilitation of the naming of the Parrott Athletic Center, the new Allen Field House annex.
The Budget and Finance committee will meet at 8:30 a.m., the Legislative, Bylaws and Policy committee at 9:15 a.m., the Extension Committee at 10 a.m. and the Building Committee at 11 a.m.-all in the Union's International Room.
The Kansas Board of Regents meeting yesterday and today brought Regents and administrators from across the state to KU. Chancellor Archie Dykes (left) and President Duane Acker of Kansas State University compared common budget problems
Regents meeting
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yesterday at the Council of Presidents meeting, the first of a number of meetings before the board meeting this afternoon in the Kansas Union. KU last hosted a Regents meeting two years ago.
Plant would increase water bills
By JOHN MUELLER
Lawrence residents will pay noticeably higher water bills next year if financing of the city's planned Clinton Reservoir water plant is approved by voters next spring.
Gene Vogt, city utilities director, said Sunday that the proposed plant would cost about $8 million. The city's engineering consultants, Black and Veatch, Kansas
City, Mo., have said that water rates could increase next year by 25 to 50 per cent, depending on how the plant's construction is financed.
The 25 per cent increase would result from general obligation bond financing, which must be approved by voters. City commissioners decided last week to submit this method of financing to voters next spring.
KU housing plans free tutoring
Free tutoring will be available to KU students who live in residence and scholarship halls next semester through the Additional Comprehensive Education Fund.
The experimental program is jointly sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) and the ASHR according to Sherri Righ, ASHC president. Grey is also a member of the AURH ASHR Special Joint Committee on Educational Studies.
Few tutoring services will begin in the halls the third week of classes next semester (February 14) and will continue every other week, for a total of seven weeks throughout the semester, Grey said yesterday.
ANCE CENTER will be established at each of the residence halls with the eight scholarship halls forming an additional center. Four subject areas will be offered by each center, one every evening, Monday through Thursday, from 7 to 9.
Students will be able to attend any session at any center. The four subjects offered by each center will be determined by a survey that will be distributed to residence and scholarship hall students the first week in December. Grey said.
The survey will ask the students what subject areas and specific classes they think they will need help with next semester.
"NEXT WEEK we are going to department heads for recommendations of graduate students who may desire to be here we'll also advertise for tutors," she said.
Tutors will be paid $ 5 an hour and will be guaranteed two hours of pay each night that they are present.
The program is being funded for the spring semester by a $3,710 allocation from the Pearson Trust Subcommittee on Cultural and Educational Enrichment, she said. That is an expenditure of 66 cents for each hall resident.
be financed next year," Grey said. "It may have to come out of the students' conference."
GREY SAID the idea for the ACE program grew out of a trip to Colorado colleges this summer sponsored by the KU housing office. AURH and ASHC members who went on the trip were impressed by the massive tutoring program for residents of University of Colorado housing and decided that KU needed a similar service, she said.
If the ACE program is successful it could expand to include educational programing teams in individual halls who would coordinate Free University type activities, tutoring and the Reading and Study Skills Program, she said.
"We're calling them 'classwork assistance' services because of the negative connotations associated with the term 'tutoring,'" she said.
"I really don't know how the program will
"OUR PRESENT plant is very good,"
the water on our apron isn't enough
water to keep it dry.
Our ultimate goal is to expand to off-
campus, students and fraternities and
members.
Vogt said that Lawrence's water consumption last summer was near the 17 million gallons a day capacity of the present plant at Third and Indiana streets. The plant, which is to be maintained, estimates, would add 10 million gallons a day to the city's capacity.
The proposed plant would treat water from Clinton Reservoir and would be on Dragstrip Road, 1000 feet of where of 23rd street ends of lawrence. Vogt said that the new plant would be used mostly by the southern and western parts of Lawrence, but that it would also serve as a back-up system for the entire city.
VOGT SAID that the new plant could produce more than 10 million gallons a day in future years, "possibly 20 million by the year 2000. We are talking about 90,000 people in Lawrence then, and that would give us a total of 37 million gallons of water."
The city's current water pool is drawn from the Kansas River and from six wells. About 145 million gallons are taken from this source and are produced by the century-old Bowersock Dam.
"We're just in the stages of deciding what
The plant will include a new laboratory for chemists to test water, he said, which will allow scientists to conduct more tests in the old laboratory at the present plant.
we want in the plant," he said. "Actually, we're ahead of engineering."
Vogt also said that the new plant would have more office space, because "the chemist will have his own office and we'll have a management office. too."
Vogt wouldn't estimate the size of the new plant, and said that "really, that $8 million figure I gave was just a ballpark estimate. It's anoxerate."
The total employment at the new plant will be 10 persons, he said.
Black and Veatch spokesman were unavailable for comment on their report.
Vogt and Byrd Watson, city manager say that water consumption will rise in future years, as Lawrence's population grows, and that inflation makes rapid construction of a new plant essential if the city wants to save money.
Following voter approval of the general obligation bonds, construction of the new plant would start by next summer. Revenue bond financing, which doesn't require voter approval, would start plant construction a year later.
RAPID CONSTRUCTION and cutting costs were major factors in commissioners' support for general obligation bond financing. General obligation bonds, they said, could be $2 million cheaper than the contracts which would require extra interest charges.
the commissioners' discussion at their last meeting centered more on how to
finance the new plant than on whether it should be built.
Both methods of financing would raise water rates. Neither would raise taxes.
THE ENGINEERING consultants have predicted that general obligation bonds would raise water rates next year by 25 per cent. With this type of financing, they said, water rates will also rise by another 26 per cent in 1970 and 1971, and 19 per cent in 1980.
City officials are preparing a study that will say exactly how much rates will in-
See WATER page two
Two University of Kansas students were killed last night and four others were injured when their car collided with a freight train north of Ottawa.
2 KU students killed in crash north of Ottawa
The accident occurred on U.S. 59, a half rule north of Ottawa.
The four injured students were listed in satisfactory condition at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. They are Mavis Carroll, St. Louis freshman; Sharon Thompson, St. Louis junior; Alexis Gill, Love, St. Louis freshman; and Vonnie Crain, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
Delarie Simmons, St. Louis sophomore, was one of the students killed. The name of the other student, also a sophomore, hadn't been released at press time.
Illustration by DAVID MILLER
Happy Thanksgiving
Today's Kansan is the last issue until Tuesday, Nov. 30. Kansan news and business offices will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday until Monday, Nov. 29.
All University buildings and offices will close at 5 p.m. today except for Marvin and Green halls, which will remain open 24 hours a day.
Vets to ask for election review
The executive council of KU Campus Veterans decided yesterday to ask the University Judiciary to hear charges of irregularities in Campus Veterans elections and determine whether new elections should be held.
The executive council, comprising the organization's four officers, met with Claire McChristy, Lawrence sophomore, one of two veterans who made charges of election irregularities at a general Campus Veterans meeting Nov. 12.
The members at the Nov. 12 meeting voted 16-1 to set up a committee to hear the charges and recommend what action, if any, should be taken.
Most of yesterday's meeting was spent discussing how to set up such a committee. BILL EVANS, Campus Veterans president, said two veterans had asked to serve on the investigating committee. But McChristy said he wanted the
But McChrisy said he wanted the committee to be totally unbiased.
"It would be best if we could find people who haven't even read anything about it in the library."
Mark Epstein, treasurer, suggested a hearing before the University Judiciary, in which he defended his views.
Epstein said that it was possible the university Judicary wouldn't be able to handle it, he added.
other avenues of recourse be tried before coming to the Judiciary.
If the Judiciary can't hear the case, the group decided it would ask the Student Senate Elections Committee to hear the arguments and recommend a solution.
McChris and Mike Dixon, Lawrence senior, had charged that one ballot was not counted.
place, that one candidate's name was left off newspaper advertisements about the election and that some people weren't able to vote.
Last May's election resulted in a two-vote
last year by Evanvail on Dixon the content
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Roaches in machine bug students
The hot-drink machine in Oliver Residence Hall has dispensed cockroaches with its hot chocolate on at least three occasions, and McGee, resident director, said yesterday.
"The bugs were dead, not alive, but that makes relatively little difference," McGee said.
He said he thought the roaches had climbed into the cabin to escape climbs graved in the carpet.
"An open-cup vending machine has to be licensed just like any restaurant," Jolly said. "If there are roaches, it's not because of unsanitary machines, but because of the
Forrest Jolly, director of vending operations for the Kansas Union, said he hadn't heard any machine of cockroaches in the Oliver hot-drink machine. He said be doubted that cockroaches could come from the hot chocolate itself, but that it might be possible for them to climb in through the door where the machine dispenses drinks.
Jolly said the workers who service op-cup vending machines followed strict guidelines to insure that they were sanitary. He said that the machines were completely sealed except for the servo door, but once it was opened the machine "perfect: dark, moist and hot."
"Also, we have to remember that this is the time of year that mice and roaches enter our house."
Cookeraches get into Oliver with the packing material around canned goods, Jolly said, and the vending machines are near the canned storage area.
Jolly said his workers sprayed around the machines about four times each year, but that they couldn't control cockroaches in entire building was effectively fumigated.
McGee said that the Oliver vending machines also seemed to be "inoperative for an inordinate amount of time. We assume that we need only the machines that not function properly."
Jolly said that the machines were unally out of order because of vandalism or theft.
"This has been a year of light vandalism, but there's always a little extra just prior to the storm."
He said that a cigarette machine in Oliver had suffered $50 damage Sunday night.