THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Display maker
Carol Sandkel, assistant curator of the Spooner Art Museum and wife of Del Sandkel, executive vice chancellor, has begun uni-
packing boxes containing a new display for the Spooner museum. The display is scheduled to open next semester.
'Professional student' keeps busy with museum duty, foreign travel
By PAUL ADDISON
on the wall of Carol Shankle's office, an airline poster depicting the merits of Japan is offset by numerous postcards illustrating oriental art.
On her desk sits a typewriter and an oriental lamp, and behind it sits Mrs. Shankel herself, wearing a multicolored blouse and a graceful white skirt.
"My interest in Asian studies arose out of one of the first classes I took at KU in Eastern Civilization, Mrs. Shankel, a native speaker. "Speaking Art, art said yesterday. "I found it so fascinating that I took a course in Japanese Literature, then Chinese Literature and it went on from there. It's an interest that's been continually expanding over the years."
MRS. SHANKEL'S INTEREST in Eastern studies led her two years ago to start writing a book on the founder of the Art Museum, Sally Casey Thaver.
"I became interested in Mrs. Thayer,"
one said, "because she collected a lot of oriental art. My book, which will be published in December or January, is the story of the Thayers in Kansas City and Mrs. Thayer's efforts as a collector to buy and promote art in the region."
Mrs. Shankel sees herself as a "professional student," spending time in the museum and taking a limited number of courses each semester as a nondegree graduate student. She received her bachelor's degree in Social Studies and Education from Western Washington State College in 1966.
SHE CAME TO KU in 1959, the same year as her future husband, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. They married in 1962.
Today, the Shankles' lives revolve around the University, its faculty and students.
lot at home. Travel, however, is our most desirable recreation. Recently I've traveled to Japan, Scotland, England and on a Rhine river trip."
"Almost everything Del and I do is University-related, except for the kids at home," she said. "Both our social life and work is at KU, so naturally we discuss it a
"NOW THEY'RE AT school there isn't as much to do," she said. "I think our active lives have affected them in a good way and enriched their own."
Mrs. Shankel's busy life as student and curator also involves travel after two weeks at the Art Institute and Kekah.
Socially, Mrs. Shankel said, she and her husband don't find time for all the activities to which they are invited, and she doesn't work at home. "She is as the wife of the executive vice chancellor."
"I choose to go only to the things that I want to go to," she said. "One of the good side effects, however, is that one gets a chance to know the faculty.
"The people I know and the things I think about are enriched by our wide interests. It gives us a lot more to think about."
KU administrators justify operating budget requests
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
TOPEKA-KU’S-defensie in the face of $2.5 million in fiscal 1978 budget cuts is half over, with the battle to end today in the phase of the governor’s budget hearings.
Budget appropriations for the six Kansas Board of Regents institutions will be recommended by Gov. Robert Bennett in June during the 1977 Kansas legislative session.
KU administrators spent yesterday justifying their operating budget requests to Bennett and James Bibb, state budget director. But the operating budget by $11.65 million.
The hearings continue today with defense of KU's capital improvements requests, which were cut $10.8 million by Bibb. Administrators say special stress will be given to the school bill and Robinson Gymnasium, for which construction plans have already been drawn.
**TOTAL CUTS TO THE KU budget by Bibb were** $2,456,657 - from $194,884,261 to $172,427,604 - for both the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses. Operating expenses were cut by $12,938,325, and Med Center expenses were cut by $1,529,332, and Med Center expenses were cut by $1,529,332.
in yesterday's hearings, Chancellor Archie Dykes defended KU's operating budget requests, focusing on faculty classes, research andresses, and library and equipment funding.
Bibb last week cut the 7 per cent faculty pay raise requested by all Regents schools to a
DYKES, WHO PRESENTED the case for all the Regents schools for justification of the 7 per cent increase, said that faculty salaries played an important part in determining the quality of education at a school.
After learning of the salary cut earlier this week, Dykes said that if only 3.5 per cent in faculty salary increases was appropriated, KU faculty members would lose morale and the University probably would lose some of its best faculty members.
"ITS IMPORTANT that the faculty feels there's an economic commitment to them," Dykes said. "It would be helpful to KU if faculty opinion was unfavorable."
Dykes said competitive faculty salaries were needed to attract and keep high quality faculty members. The 7 per cent increase is needed, he said, to maintain KU's position in relation to faculty salaries at peer universities.
A recent study has indicated that KU ranks 12th out of 14 midwestern universities considered to be KU's peer group in the Association of American Universities.
The increase was determined, Dykes said, by an estimated cost of living increase
Qualities of deaf children praised
then rely more on cost of living increases to stabilize purchasing power.
The importance of library and equipment funding, two new and improved KU projects in the OOE budget that were cut, were also stressed by KU administrators.
KU received an increase of $189,870 in
BUDGET for the current library
budget of $259,000.
See KU page eight
The money is needed for acquisition of more materials and more library personnel, Dykes said. Understaffing has led to an increase in the use of books and materials, and shortened library hours.
of 5 per cent and the 2 per cent that was cut from the Regents schools' requests last year.
A 10 PER CENT salary increase requested last year was cut to 8 per cent. A 10 per cent increase had been requested as the salary increase increased to be spread over three years.
Staff Writer
Dykes said it was more economical to purchase materials now because of the cost savings.
DYKES SAID THAT IF 10 per cent were approved, the University would be close to meeting the Higher Education Price Index, a measure of purchasing power, and could
By DEBMILLEI
Staff Writer
BIBB QUESTIONNED WHY KU would buy new material than the staff could
"It's good that they can do exciting things in spite of their handicap," Ediger said. "They have the same right to have fun as the hearing do."
Worker," concerning Helen Keller and her teacher. Nail Sullivan.
Dykes said KU$'s two priority was a 10 per cent increase in other operation expenses.
Besides the heavy emphasis on communication, the Olathe school isn't unlike a public school. The same subjects are taught and grade cards are given. The school has a football team (four wins and five losses this season) and a basketball team. The seniors put on an annual play.
"五 per cent don't permit progress. It can only negress for the Univer
Bennett said he was concerned about such
increases in OOE requests in far-
away regions.
MANY OF THE STUDENTS love to "listen" to music, according to Johnson. They press their mouths with a frown, and turn back.
This year's play is "The Miracle
deaf, they are taught to communicate with speaking people.
BENNETT WILL make his recommendations—upblowing Bibb's cuts, making his own cuts, or partially or completely—to the 1977 leisure in January.
justification for the University's operating expenses and capital improvements.
Justification was presented yesterday and today to Gov. Robert Bennett and Bibb during the governor's唱贝earings.
See DEAF page 10
'78 budget outlined
Porter said her experience at Olathe had been rewarding.
The legislature will then make appropriations to each of the Regents' schools.
Kindhearted, creative, interested and down to earth.
Bibb reviewed those budgets and put about $2.25 million from KU's requests. Since those cuts were made, Bibb said the administrators have been gathering administrators have been gathering
The path followed in gaining approval for KU's fiscal 1978 budget is a long, sometimes torturous one.
The Regents whittled down the University's requests—as well as requests from the five other Regent's schools, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Kansas State College at Pittsburg, Emporia Kansas State College at Tulsa, Oklahoma College and submitted the budget to James Babb, state budget director.
KU's requests—as approved by the Regents last summer and then by Bibb last week—and the cuts made by Bibb are presented here. Following that is a summary of the major programs all爽ly sliced by Bibb from KU's bidget.
The trek began last summer, when KU administrators submitted budget requests for the Lawrence and KU Med to the Kansas State Board of Resents.
These are the qualities found in deaf children by University of Kansas student Annette Meyer.
By JOHN MCANULTY
Margaret Porter, Kansas City, Kan,
graduate student, said, "The children are
fascinating. They appreciate things that
most people wouldn't even notice."
"When a child finally understands something that you've been trying to teach them, it can be really overwhelming."
Lawrence campus          $ 88,790,917
Operating expenses       $ 85,944,917
Capital improvements    $ 2,846,000
Med Center campus        $ 83,636,887
Operating expenses       $ 80,258,887
Capital improvements    $ 3,378,000
Lawrence campus $101,727,242
Operating expenses $ 89,174,242
Capital improvements $ 12,553,000
Med Center campus $ 93,157,019
Operating expenses $ 88,681,019
Capital improvements $ 4,476,000
TOTAL BUDGET REQUESTS
APPROVED BY REGENTS
"they laugh and tease each other just like normal kids," she said. "There's an understanding that they see in each other by living in their own world."
She said that the deaf had a unique thought process and that they were forced to learn the communication standards of the speaking world.
One student teacher, Deena Ediger, Inman graduate student, said last week that the children she taught made her feel at home.
Porter works with emotionally disturbed
deaf children at the school. She teaches four
children to speak.
"It's like living in two different worlds," she said. "We can laugh at things that pain us by putting a label on it. They can't label things because they don't have labels."
Gerald Johnson, superintendent of the school, said the number of students in a classroom was kept small because the student understood what was being taught.
"You can give them a common phrase that you might have learned when you were four years old and that you don't now think they said she said. "They are dumfounded, by it."
"My feelings for them grow every day," she said.
TOTALS APPROVED BY BIBB
TOTAL CUTS BY BIBB
Lawrence campus $ 12,936,325
Med Center campus $ 1,520,332
Total $ 22,456,657
Operating expenses $ 11,651,657
Capital improvements $ 10,805,000
"THEY HAVE only a few words that they can manipulate their world with," she said. Ediger said it was hard for deaf children to look at a word and understand it.
Ediger is one of six KU students who are practice teaching at the school. All six are working toward their master's degrees in education through the KU Medical Center.
ONCE THE students realize that they are
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EDIGER SAID she tried to instill a sense of humor in the children.
- Major cuts in Lawrence campus operating expenses: A 7 per cent faculty salary reduction and a decrease in staff positions for new buildings down to 23.3, and new library improvements.
Most of the teachers have between six and nine students in their classes. Three hundred
Ediger said the children she taught, eight and nine years old, couldn't speak as most children do.
The children usually start school at age
e. Johnson said most children knew little
f. Gillen said most children knew little
Even though sign language is basic for communicating, most of the students can make sounds. The elementary school classrooms are filled with clatter from the children. By the time they reach age 11 or 12 they quiet down. Johnson said.
- Cuts in Lawrence campus capital improvements; Additions to Robinson Gymnasium and Malalt Hall; renovations of Lindley, Green and Marvin halls and
SIGN LANGUAGE is the basic means of communication between the student and teacher. The students even have their own slang in sign language.
The children are first shown simple words such as "ball," "boat" and "red." The classroom is filled with pictures of such objects with the word attached to the pictures. Students are then taught the sign language symbol for the words.
"The potential for learning is there. We try to unlock it," he said.
"At that age they realize that they are deaf and what the implications of beef are," he said. "They start wondering why they are deaf and why God made them
- Major cuts in Medical Center operating expenses: Academic and patient care programs; improvements in hospital programs, a Family Practice and Outreach program; three new bachelor of science programs; and 41.9 per cent of a utilities request.
- Cuts in Medical Center capital improvements: a New library; remodeling of Walh Hall; a new nursing facilities building; a family practice clinic for Western Michigan.*
Honey keeps Sperry, bees busy
By DOUG LAMBORN
Staff Writer
for P. Everett Snerry
P. Everett Sperry
Honeybees are a way of life for P. Everett's Sperry.
Sperry, 54, 149 M. Michigan St., has worked with almost half a century. His bees—on farms near Hawtha, Topeka and Pittsburgh—now produce 10 tons of honey a
"It's a fascinating thing," he said Tuesday. "There's a lot of mystery there people don't generally think about.
"Granted, they didn't have bees in hives like we've got now. But they had bees."
"We don't have sugar sugar," but "go ban" go ban. We'd need a sweetness that could have bread. We've bad buns, from the creation on down.
Once the frames with their combs are removed, they are placed in a machine that whirls the frames until all the honey is forced out of the combs. The machine will hold up to 80 frames.
The advantage of the boxes, he said, is that the honey-filled combs can be removed intact from the box, because bees make their combs within removable wooden frames.
Sperry said honey had been used through history for many medicinal purposes. It has been used, for instance, as an antiseptic, as a cough medicine and even for treating bee stings.
Because the comb is still intact after the honey has been removed, it can be put back into the box. The bees don't
ALTHOUGH HONEYBEES are now kept in boxes, they must be used to put in hollow logs, and then in skins--straw
have to remake the comb, but can spend all their energy making honey.
SPERRY SAID producing honey was hard work, because boxes containing honey and coats weighed a lot, and because the work was done in the hot summer months while wearing heavy clothing.
Not only does heavy clothing help protect from bee stings, Sperry said, but smoking the bees also helps. When honeybees are smoked they instinctively fill up their pockets, which makes it more difficult for them to sting and be as active.
"If you're bareheaded," he said, "the first place they'll light up around your eyes or in your hair."
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Sperry can recognize different varieties of honey by their tastes because of his experience.
"I CAN TELL whether that honey's from clover, or from basswood trees or what they call squeeze honey."
The spurge is a type of wildflower. He can also recognize honey from the Southwest, where it is made.
"that honey is dark," the spurge kind. "I've seen some honey that's dark as sorghum."
He said it wasn't as good as the lighter clover honey because it was too strong.
"Wildflowers generally produce dark honey, strong honey," he said.
Honey made in Kansas, he said, is made from too many wildflowers to be as good as what he considers the best crop.
See HONEY page eight