THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, November 17, 1976
Basketball team debuts tonight See story page six
Vol.87 No.62
Commission postpones cut of 24 frat parking spaces
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Writer
Members of Phil Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternities will lose 24 parking spaces in the 1600 block of Edghill Road, but city commissioners acted to allow some parking removal for two weeks to look into other parking possibilities to replace the spaces.
Commissioners also failed to approve a Planned Unit Development (PUD) revision requested by developers of the Alvamar area. The Commissioners favored the provision, because it was necessary to enact the revision because of a protest provision in the PUD ordinance.
The ordinance says that PUD revisions protested by 40 per cent of a PUD area's
residents require a 41 vote of approval by commissioners. Acting on a report prepared by city officials earlier in the day, commissioners decided that 40 per cent of Alvamar's residents had protested the revision by validated signatures.
ALVAMAR, INC., HAD requested the revision so it could build 14 single-family houses in an undeveloped area by the Alvamar Hills Golf Course. Opponents of the revision had objected to the change from a woodland park interfered with their view of the soil course.
Commissioners postponed the fraternal 'parking space removal at the urging of Jeb Bayer, Ph.D Delta Theta president. He said the move was due to a safety allowing parking on only the east side
Smiths and Joneses: Count your blessings
By MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Writer
To the Smiths, Jones and Browns of the world, to have an unusual name might seem ideal, but to those people owning them, they can cause problems.
The most common problem is teaching others how to pronounce the name.
Cathy Suchocki, Winfield junior, said yesterday, "I always know when the teacher's going to pronounce my name there, there's a silence in the middle of the 'S.'"
walter Looney, 1201 W. 22 St. Terrace,
said people often misnounced his name
They don't want to spell it or pronounce it correctly, thinking it take offence. he said.
But a person with an unusual name has to be annoyed about it "or else he will go crazy." Lazy.
Patience is also helpful for enduring the same old jokes about one's name, some other name.
Kansan posts open for spring
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the spring semester Kansean are available in 105 Flt Hall, the Student Senate office in room 105B Hall, the Student Senate office in room 106C dean of men and dean of women. The application deadline is 5 p.m. today.
Interviews will begin Friday. Applicants will be notified of the time and place of their interview.
Ann Trusty, 1976 KU graduate, said,
"Whenever I write a check, the people always say, 'Well, we don't need any LD. You; you look pretty trusty, heeh, heeh."
Wes *icnogle*, Topek junior, has the
power to perceive sometimes don't
believe him when people say he
"I have a lot of trouble when I call in for
pizza because they think it's a joke," he said.
Iceconge has his name also invited the nicknames of "Snogs," "Snag" and "Snapleps," which his friends regularly call him.
Although adults are usually accustomed to the inconvenience of unusual names, children are often sensitive to the teasing they receive.
Mary Troll, Wichita senior, said she often became embarrassed when she was younger at hearing stories about trolls billing billyboats under bridges.
Barry Bloom, Wichita junior, said he remembered being tagged with the nicknames "Blueberry" and "Butterfly." But he didn't think his name was a problem now.
Having an unusual last name coupled with an equally unusual first name can really cause pronunciation problems, Elmer Gillogly, Ottawa opphomore, said. Two of his roommates still have problems saying his name, and to make matters worse, another roommate also is named Elmer.
But, despite the confusion and complications, Gillogly, who goes by Dale in class because it's less formal, said he wouldn't change his name.
of Louisiana Street and on 17th Street
Edgehill Road and Tennessee
Street
“It’s part of me now, and I wouldn’t think of changing it.”
Bayer and the commissioners agreed that the extension was necessary, because if Bayer's recommendations proved feasible, they couldn't be implemented before the Edgehill Road removal was scheduled to occur tomorrow.
FIREMEN ORIGINALLY proposed the removal because, they said, they wouldn't be able to fit one of their large trucks into the hole by the Edgehill Road curb if a fire broke out.
The fraternity members may now park on only the west side of Louisiana Street and were previously told by commissioners that they could not stay at the 90-day period. Commissioners changed their minds about allowing parking on both sides, but Bayer said the fraternities could still gain five extra parking spaces by moving from the west to the east side of the street.
Bayer said that he didn't have an estimate on how many spaces the proposed Tennessee Street parking could provide, but that it could help regain the parking spots the fraternities will lose in the Edgehill Road removal.
COMMISSIONERS TOLD George Williams, director of public works, to use the extension time to study whether Bayer's suggestions were possible.
Commissioner Marnie Argeringer approved of the compromise, but she reaffirmed her statement last week that they were not their parking spaces. I was not misquoted.
Argeringer had said last week that "those kids shouldn't expect the city to provide the damn parking. The automobile isn't a God-given right."
Bayer said that he realized parking
See COMMISSION page eight
Part-time shepherd
when Ahman Karr, University of Kansas buildings and grounds
labor foreman, on campus, he's usually back on his 40-acre
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
farm north of Tonganoxie working with is herd of goats. Karr shares his duties on the farm, which includes milking twice a day, with his family. See story and more pictures page seven.
KU archive holds wealth of info
Bv PAUL ADDISON
Want to see a film of Jim Ryun breaking world track records as a KU student, or watch last year's memorable KU-Oklahoma football game? Maybe you'd rather listen to an interview with Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy or George Lincoln Rockwell, or read the minutes of the Kansas Board of Regents of 1866.
If so, the University Archives, on the top floor of the Spencer Research Library, can tend to your needs and provide you with the information you need. The University of Kansas from its earliest days.
THE ARCHIVES is a treasure house of material that includes dissertations, minutes of meetings, about half a million photographs and about 1,000 sound tapes
dating from 1938. Other audio-visual material, copies of University Press publications, microforms, videotapes and cartographic materials also have been collected there since the Archives was formally established in 1969.
"For students, the University Archives is an undiscovered gold mine where they can really get at good sources," Ned Keke, associate archivist, said yesterday. "There's a lot of stuff people could use—a lot of good term paper topics."
Kebide the Archives tried to keep a copy of every thing ever, handed out at, printed or written about KU, including handbills from the days of student protests. He took care to print all architectural blueprints of campus buildings and numerous historical
knicknacks, such as old footbaus, paintings and plaques.
FOR SPORTS fans, the Archives is especially useful. The Archives contains film of all KU home football games since the 1930s, as well as film of most post World War II basketball games and track meets. It has one of the largest intercollegiate sports film collections in the United States, John Nugent, archivist, said.
Nugent said that the Archive's 300,000 cataloged and 200,000 uncataloged photographs of KU events were probably the best introduction to the history of the University. The photos have been collected and donated by the University of Kansas Alumni Association, news bureaus, the athletic department and many individuals.
University papers and records also contain valuable information. Nurtured said.
"I DON'T KNOW how people relate to University records, but I think the correspondence files really help you realize what was happening then," he said.
"If you take Chancellor Strong's correspondence from 1902 to 1923, for instance, you can get to know the man and you see that the Medical Center in Kansas City is there primarily because Strong fought for it."
Nugent said that despite the opportunity for research, the Archives was now unrun
"I don't think people understand what we have and how it can be used," he said. "There's so much here, although you sometimes have to do a little digging."
Publicity woes cut IHP enrollment, director says
Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles on the KU Integrated Humanities Program. This story deals with an enrollment drop in the program that faculty members say was caused largely by two administrative decisions that stopped the program from advertising.)
By JERRY SEIB Staff Writer
The Integrated Humanities Program (HHP) at the University of Kansas is only five years old, but the HHP program is still in progress.
There has been a flap from the start over the need for the program and the methods used by its teachers. Its proponents have called it a unique way to teach the classics, an educational alternative to traditional music courses and man-sophomore curriculum. Its opponents have said it is unnervous and a form of indocrinization.
In spring 1973, the College Assembly of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences voted to not let the humanities program fulfill the freshman-sophomore English requirement, as it had in the
THEN, THIS spring, a personal disaster struck the program. Two students participating in an HP semester in Ireland drowned when they were traned by an incoming ocean tide while hiking.
In fall 1973, after a long and bitter disagreement, the College Assembly rejected IHP plans for a
Disputes over the goals and methods of the IHP continue. But this year, the IHP faces a new challenge.
Dennis Quinn, professor of English a director of the program, says the drop hasn't been caused by the controversy that has shrouded the program or the tragedy in Ireland. He says it is largely the result of an over-representation that prevented the HIP from advertising itself to incoming students this year as it had in the past.
THE FIRST decision, made this spring by the Office of Academic Affairs, prevented any academic programs from mailing literature or manuscripts to the university. Quinn said, had previously sent brochures to all
incoming freshmen to acquaint them with the program,
At about the same time in the spring, a committee of faculty and students, in charge of the preparation for the workshop against academic programs to set up information booths during the orientation. The IHP had always had a table with advisers and information in the Kansas Union during the orienta-
Both decisions were made while IHP students and faculty members were in Ireland this spring. Quinn doesn't say that the decisions were aimed at the IHP. He says that they hurt the IHP more because of the difficulties. He would have been proposed if there were administrative support for the humanities program.
"I felt very much that when we came back from Ireland, the general policy would be to squeeze us, to hold us down."
"I THINK IF the College and the University
-Denniss Quinn, director of Integrated Humanities Program.
really have in mind giving full support, someone would have said. "Look, this is a good program, it's one that students enjoy. We have to find someone to tell students about it." "he said.
"There have to be 50 freshmen out there who would have joined the program but couldn't."
Enrollment in the freshman class of IHP dropped by 83 students, from 133 in 1975 to 50 this year. In the past, freshman enrollment in the IHP has always exceeded 100. In 1971, there were 142 freshmen; in 1972, 186; in 1973, 129; and in 1974, 182.
SOPHOMORE ENROLLMENT has always been lower than the freshman total because some students leave the program after a year. This fall, there are 48 sophomores in the program. From 1971 to 1975, sophomore enrollment was 101, 139, 65, 80 and 31.
Quain said the lower sophomore enrollment this year was caused partially by the program's semester abroad in Ireland this spring. If students were unable to spend the semester abroad, they either missed a semester or dropped out of the program.
But he said the lower freshman enrollment wasn't totally caused by the semester abroad.
"I FELT VERY much that when we came back from Ireland, the general policy would be to send the troops."
"I say that curs is a successful program, successful in any way you measure it. I'm saying we occupy a space on the priority list that must be accessed when we want to execute of whatever priority lists there are at KU."
Quinn said he wasn't officially informed about either policy change. He said that he found out about them by accident and that there wasn't time to find alternatives after he learned of the change.
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was chairman of the faculty-student committee that organized the summer orientation sessions for freshmen. He said there was no malice toward the IHP in its decision.
"IN A ONE-DAY program, there simply isn't enough time for every academic program area to be represented, and we don't want to get academic programs to be competing against each other for students," he said. "Since some part of budget allocations is determined by the number of students, students become desirable to have in your department."
Lewis said that materials describing the IHP were passed out to academic advisers and made available to students during the last few orientation sessions. But he agreed that the decision to eliminate academic programs' tables at orientation might have been especially harmful to the IHP.
"What Professor Quinn says is true. It hurt them worse than anyone else," he said, "Students know there is an English program, they don't know there is a humanities program."
RON CALGAARD, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said his office's decision about mailing pamphlets was prompted by a request from the department of Slavic languages and literatures to
"A student can be be widened getting 42
separate pieces in information from that many
pieces of information."
He said that the decision stopped any individual program from mailing literature and that his office didn't deal with individual College courses. The student, Omar "Omair" shortly after the decision was made.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said he had not discussed the enrollment attention with
"I'd say there is support for the right of the program to exist," Shankel said. "My own philosophy is that the program has the right to
"My own philosophy is that the program has the right to exist but that we should not give it benefits or amenities that other programs don't have."
exist but that we should not give it benefits or amenities that other programs don't have."
—Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
ROBERT COBB, dean of the College, said that College programs and departments continued to have general literature available, but that the college was generally for on-campus distribution.
Cobb said he thought that the decisions to
"The only alternative that we've discussed thus far is printing a single brochure for unique or conspicuous or relatively new programs for underclasmen at the University," he said. "I think if it were a brochure designed for incoming freshmen, that it would be distributed ahead of time."
restrict participation in summer orientation programs and mailings were communicated to the student body.
"The fact that Professors Quim, (Franklyn) Nellick and (John) Senior give more than half their time to it and that we provide various other resources would indicate that we regard the Integrated Humanities Program as an interesting and valuable program in the College." Cobb said.
QIINN, HOWEVER, says he thinks some faculty members and of officials to resent a
"There is no justification for the suggestion that we are doing something wrong," he said. "It's fine to disagree with us, to oppose us, but not to suppress us."
"It puts the humanities program in a bad way, and the humanities program is good for the University. It's always been the University here and the humanities program there."
Quinn also said the IHP had been unjustly accused of sex discrimination by the Title IX subcommittee that this summer named possible defendants. Cobb to investigate the IHP for discrimination.
Cobb said he had conducted an investigation and had written a letter to Shankel, saying that no evidence of discrimination in admissions to the IHP was found and that in teaching the program on the subject of sex roles were protected by academic freedom.
SHANKEL WAS a member of a steering committee that assows the work of TITLE IX subcommittees on the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses. He said the Lawrence campus subcommittee's report on the IHP indicated that "there weren't any firm facts or specific justices, just that there were some questions about the program brought before the committee."
Quinn said the IRP faculty wasn't told why it was named by the subcommittee.
"If there's some real evidence, then an investigation might be justified," he said. "There are."
(Tomorrow: Opinions)