THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.61
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Abandoned pets face grim fate
Tuesday, November 16, 1976
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Countru livin'
The search for an environment more conducive to living lured Richard Branham, his wife, Ruth, and their two sons from
Chicago to the healthier atmosphere of the Kansas countryside.
Branham, who formerly run a design agency with 25 employees, is
charged for using the company website.
Prof likes easy rural life
By DOUGLAMBORN
Their farm is northwest of Lawrence. Behind a sign on the mailbox proclaiming "A 4-H member lives here," chickens of all colors chase around the yard. A gaggle of irritated gray geese hong loudly as they mingle with the chickens.
Richard Branham, chairman of KU's department of design, lives here with his family. He used to run a successful design consulting agency in Chicago. Two years ago, Branham decided he wanted a simpler life for his family, so he moved to Kansas
Branham, along with his wife, Ruth, and their two sons, lives in a stone house. Behind it stands a red two-story barn. While walking out to the barn in his denim work clothes and muddy boots, he explained his reasons for leaving Chicago.
"The pollution in Chicago is incredibly," be said, "It's more incredible." Branham continued, "now that I know it's incredible."
Pollution was a special problem because his 6-year-old son, Eric, had asthma. His height and weight were then on the bottom of the charts. Braham said that after a year in Kansas his son had almost reached the normal size of other children his age.
Branham said he also moved because he didn't enjoy the pressures and frustrations he faced.
"I'd wake up at night figuring out the cash flow."
Extensive travel for business purposes didn't appeal to him either, he said.
"The glamour goes out pretty quickly. The last year I worked I flew 130,000 miles."
last year I worked the new $10,000 unit to help improve visual education.
"Even though 75 to 80 per cent of the information a person receives is visual, most people respond to text."
Branham said he was concerned with putting together a program that could be taught from kindergarten all the way through to help people understand visual language.
Branham said the lack of visual understanding was due to the proliferation of products loaded with imitation leather, wood and chrome.
"If they really understood form they would buy their products. People are becoming less dependent on them."
"They don't have what I call real experiences. They don't know how to build a fire. They don't know how to sleep outdoors."
Branham said that most people buy things already made and couldn't make the difference.
"IF YOU DON'T have these skills." Mrs. Barbara归纳，“you're a frustrated woman.”
Although the Branhamts have learned many skills, they admit to having had their share of mistakes when they were fresh from the city.
"You should've seen the first chicken we buttered," Branham said laughing. "It looks like a burger."
"The first time we cleaned a chicken," his wife added, "we left the lunches in."
Besides chickens and geese, the Branhams have rabbits, bees and ponies. They also raise fruit berries and honey from fruit trees they hire two roos to a wagon or a dog.
"WE'VE DRIVEN to downtown Lawrence and back," Mrs. Branham said. Their only trouble during the outing was with one of the horses.
"The first manble cover we came to—he tried to burn it," she said.
She abruptly realized the difference between Chicago and Lawrence one day when she was driving around trying to borrow a harrow, a field implement. She saw a harrow in a yard, asked the owner about it, and the owner offered her to let her use it.
"I could've died. I was amazed
somebody, had that much faith in a perfect
decision."
Bramham described a time when he was shopping in Lawrence and carrying an
"A woman opened the door for me. I was knocked. I couldn't believe it. That would have been worse."
"I was in a different world. I knew then I had made the right choice."
KU officials weigh effects of $21 million budget cut
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
A severe cut totaling about $21 million in KU's fiscal 1978 budget has been recommended by James Bibb, state budget director. The cuts to the program to ponder its possibly crippling effects.
Bibb's recommendations, received Friday, slash funds that KU requested for faculty salaries, operating expenses and capital improvement programs.
Operating budget recommendations for the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses were $9.7 million less than the amounts approved by the Regents. Capital improvements requests were cut by almost $11 million.
A 7 per cent increase in faculty salaries approved by the Regens was tapered to 3.5 per cent.
KU ADMINISTRATORS will defend their budget requests Thursday in bearings before Bibb and Gov. Robert Bennett. Bennett will make his budget recommendations in January the 1977 Kansas law, which will make final appropriations.
Chancellor Archie Dykes said last night that he was disappointed with the severe reductions, but that he was hopeful the governor would restore some of them.
"If the cuts stand as they do," Dykes
said, "we can be a stand-till year for the
University."
Bibb said the reductions were justifiable to keep a balance in state revenue in 1979.
The necessity of reductions are a simple matter when comparing the requests with the outputs.
Faculty salaries, operating expenditure funds and new and improved programs were priorities in the budget requests, Dykes said. All were severely cut.
FACULTY MEMBERS would suffer a loss of buying power, Dykes said, because inflation will be greater than the 3.5 per cent salary increase.
"I'm sure that would have an impact on the morale of the people in the University and probably result in a loss of some of our very best faculty and staff."
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A critical new program for improvements in libraries was cut completely, he said.
In the past, Dykes has been concerned with overcrowding and budget deficiencies in the KU library system. Accordingly, he has initiated a priority items in the fiscal 1978 budget.
FUNDING FOR additions to Robinson
concussion and Malott Hall have been cut.
Drew Ellis, coach of the Eagles.
and appropriations were to have been scheduled for the two projects this year.
Comparable cuts at the Med Center will make it much more difficult to correct some of the problems the Med Center has had in the past several months. Dykes said,
"We will be unable to correct the problems that have been so much on the public's mind without adequate resources," he said.
Housekeeping, maintenance, and support services such as laundry and cafeteria services had come under public scrutiny within the past year.
See BUDGET nare two
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Budget cuts produce shock, little optimism
By DEB MILLER and JOHN MUELLER
Staff Writers
After budget cuts recommended last weekend by James Bibb, state budget director, the reactions of several University officials ranged from shock to collapse.
Bibb cut KU's requested operating expenditures for fiscal 1978 by about $10 million, and capital improvement requests by about $11 million. KU administrators will meet with Bibb and Gov. Robert Bennett Thursday to try to justify the requests.
KU's seven per cent faculty merit salary raise request was cut in half.
JOEL GOLD, presiding officer of the University Council and Senate, said he was "in a state of shock" after learning of the faculty pay raise cut.
"I had no idea the cuts would be that deen," he said.
Gold attacked the cuts because he said they would lower faculty morale and would cause KU to lose good professors to other states that could offer higher raises. If the university weren't restored, Gold said, faculty salaries will be outstretched by the cost of livine
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas now ranks 12th in salaries for professors and associate professors among 14 state-supported, Midwestern universities, figures from the KU Office of Institutional Research and Planning show.
The average salary of KU professors is 26. Assistant professors earn an average of $15,000.
Gold said he hoped Chancellor Archie Dykes could make a case before the legislature to get the cuts restored, but said that cuts made in this step of the budget process haven't in the past always been restored.
KU's only capital improvement request that was approved was $1.8 million for the replacement of the building.
BIBB CUT requests for Robinson Gymnasium and Malott Hall additions, and also rejected requests for renovations of the building. BIBB and Lindley, Marvin, and Green halls.
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said that architecture students housed in Marvin Hall in downtown Denver stand up, it's really going to be a disaster."
He said the architecture school might have to limit enrollment if Marvin didn't get a job.
"The chancellor isn't going to like this," he said, "but if we don't get more room, we may have to limit the freshman class to 100 each year. Right now we let in 144."
Marvin is the oldest unrenovated building on campus, Kahn said, and is only half as large as it should be to adequately serve the students in the School of Architecture.
AN ADDED PROBLEM with space at Marvin is the expected doubling of the number of graduate students within the next year, Kahn said.
"We only have 46 square feet per student. Kansas is 25 years behind the times."
"We're 5,000 square feet short right now"
we said. "We could be in deep trouble, we're too"
well.
James Ranz, dean of libraries, said that the library improvements money was to be used for books and several new staff positions.
"There's no question that improvements are badly needed." he said.
The future of the library improvements request is uncertain, Hanz said, but he added that it was still too early to predict how a new project would do on the final appropriation.
Max Lacas, director of facilities and planning, said that he understood Bibb's concern with looking at the overall budget, but said he honeed the cuts could be restor-
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Propriety of program's religious teachings disputed
Editor's note: This is the first of three articles on the KU integrated Humanities Program, known before this fall as the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program, and questions about religious teachings in the program.
The second story will deal with an enrollment drop in the program that faculty members say was largely by two administrative decisions that stopped the program from advertising. The third will touch on some opinions students, faculty and administrators have about the program.
By JERRY SEIB
On a cold November night, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anderson sat near the fireplace of their Prairie Village home and, in bitter tones, told how their son left for another country—another world, really.
They told of their son, Phil, as a bright graduate of Shawnee Mission E High School, a student who
had been associate editor of the high school newspaper, cofounder of a literary magazine and a
They told his coming to the University of Kansas in fall 1971, hoping to get a degree in English or the classics. He enrolled in the then-new Integrated Humanities Program (HPF), which to the parents sounded like a good way to study great books.
THEY TOLD OF his soon converting from Unitarianism to Catholicism, and of his dropping out of school after two years—and the maximum four semesters in the IHP—to enlist in the Marines. They said he later told them he enlisted to become financially independent.
Classics program outline
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The Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) is, according to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences catalog, a freshman-sophomore program "devoted to an introductory study of great philosophical, historical and literary books of Western civilization from Homer to Dostoevski."
Phil's parents told of how their son was released before scheduled from the Marines in August 1975, after writing to Marine authorities telling them he planned to re-enroll at KU.
The program was begun on an experimental basis in the 1970-71 school year. It began full scale operation the next year as the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program.
It was operated with Pearson College of the now defunct colleges-within-the-College. Program headquarters were moved from Joseph R. Pearson College to Peabody University, and the Pearson portion of the name was dropped.
period and the fourth on the modern age. Completion of the first two semesters satisfies the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences distribution requirement in the humanities, and the program can satisfy various other requirements in other schools and departments.
Thee are four semesters of work in the complete program. In each semester, students take a single six credit hour course on some segment of the work, two on the second on the Romans, the third on the medieval
The program has always had several distinctive characteristics. Students don't take notes, and they don't ask questions of their instructors in lectures, but do work on implementing programs as trips abroad, stargazing.
Three professors have been the program's only faculty members. They are Dennis Quinn, professor of English, John Senior, professor of classes; and Franklyn Nelick, professor of English.
And, from the beginning, it has been controversial. Its opponents have called it oppressive and one-dimensional, while its backers—including Russell Kirk, a National Review columnist—have called it a "lively innovation" in teaching the classics.
They told of their son's never re-enrolling when they returned from the Marines but, instead, going to France to become an observer at Fontbombaunt, a Catholic monastery in which monks are trained.
THEY TOLD OF their son returning home in June 1976, again with intentions of re-enrolling at KU. Only this time, they said, he made a trip to the KU campus just before summer school started and the next day, left again for Fontgombault. This time, he wasn't going as an observer but as a novitate in the monastery, studying for the cloistered life of a monk.
It is a life that Phil will make his own if he completes the required five years of study, a life
"We believe, however, that if the allegations are true, that what is of issue is not academic freedom but separation of church and state."
-Herman Goldstein, executive director of the Kansas City, Mo., Jewish Community Relations
that could stop him from seeing his family after he becomes a monk.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson don't tell their son's story from memory. They tell it by paging through a notebook of plastic-covered photocopies of letters from their son and correspondence with KU students concerning their son. It is a notebook Mr. Anderson assembled after his son went to the monastery.
THE ORIGINAL copies of the letters are in a family bank box. They are kept there so they can be used as evidence if the Andersons decide to sue KUF teaching religion in a state classroom in the HUP.
The Andersons also have a file cabinet filled with notes and a notebook with names, addresses and
phone numbers of students, parents and officials involved with the IHP.
Using these contacts and their son's letters, they assert that seven of the 70 residents of Fontbault, the French monastery, are former IHP students. They say that 12 members of their son's IHP class converted to Catholicism and that, during the program's semester abroad in Ireland this spring, eight students were baptized and 10 confirmed.
ONE OF THE Andersons' letters was sent them by Phil in April 1976. The letter says that about 40 IHP students and a professor, who were on the French side of the war, went to Fontenoy built in France to spend several days.
Included in their files is a March 1975 post card to their son from an IHP faculty member who was visiting Fontombault. The post card told of plans for Phil to go to France with another KU student to enter the monastary and said the "father at the monastery told me how good it is you are coming." It was written five months before Phil was released from the Marines.
"LIKE THE ACLU, our agency is very strong," she said. "I am glad Goddeline said. "We believe, however, that if the
THE ANDERSONS are one of three sets of parents who have registered complaints about the IHP with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau. The parents—one set Jewish, one Catholic and one Protestant—have complained that the humanities program influenced their sons to join the monastery.
Officials of the ACLU and Jewish Community Relations Bureau say they are making inquiries about the humanities program. They say they are interested in learning more about diversity but also say that a court case is a possibility.
Herman Goldstine, executive director of the Kansas City, Mo., Jewish Community Relations Bureau, said the parents made their complaints in early August. He has met with three sets of parents and corresponded with a fourth set of parents concerned about the IHP.
allegations are true. That what is of issue is not academic freedom but separation of church and
Representatives of the ACLU and Jewish Community Bureau visited KU in early October and met with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Ron Calgaird, vice chancellor for academic affairs; Robert Cobb dean of the College of Arts; Michael Davis, and Mike Davis, University general counsel.
The representatives also requested to meet with IPF faculty members, but the faculty members "refused."
"We talk about religion when religion is relevant to the books we teach. Religion is a factor in many books in the humanities."
Dennis Quinn, professor of English and director of the IHP, confirmed that he refused to meet with
—Dennis Quinn, director of Integrated Humanities Program.
ACLU or Jewish Community Relations Bureau
that had always been willing to talk with parents.
"ONE OF THE reasons I would not talk to them (the representatives) is that I don't want to be put in the position of maintaining my innocence," Quinn said. "It's like calling someone and saying, 'Hey, I hear you a homosexual.' Well, the proper way to respond is to say nothing."
Quinn said he was reluctant to discuss the private lives of his students, and he chastised those he said were willing to make a public issue of private decisions.
"I feel toward my students as doctors feel toward their patients and as lawyers ought to feel toward their clients," he said. "I really do respect their privacy."
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