CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 2, 1995
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Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Carolyn Gray looks at her newborn son, Antonio Tyrone Crowder, through the glass in the prenatal department of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Antonio was born Jan. 30.
Former chancellor key to Med Center's success
Financing for research increased with Budig
By Matt Hood
Kansan staff writer
Administrators at the Med Center agree that much of the school's recent success is attributable to KU's last chancellor, Gene Budig.
The new executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center will be taking control of a medical school ranked by U. S. News and World Report as one of the top 10 in the United States.
Mike Keeble, director of business affairs at the Med Center, said that in the early 1980s, the Med Center had received $50 to $60 million annually from the Legislature. Close to $8 million of that money subsidized the Med Center's hospital each year, which continually lost money in the years before Budig's tenure.
But for the past eight years, the hospital has made a profit, Keeble said.
The Med Center still receives money from the Legislature. But the money now finances academics and research. The hospital is supporting itself with patient fees.
"It's our challenge now to allow the hospital to continue doing that," Keeble said.
Keeble said Budig's ability to build an effective team of administrators contributed to the Med Center's financial success.
Chancellor Del Shankel praised Budig and his team of administrators at the Med Center.
"They converted it from a lost center of the state to a profit center of the state," Shankel said.
A. L. Chapman, associate vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies at the Med Center, said research also had grown under Budig's administration.
He said federal financing for research totaled $8 million to $10 million a year before Budig's tenure. Now, total federal financing is more than $40 million.
"There's no doubt our research improved tremendously during Gene Budig's tenure," Chapman said.
Speaker fills in missing American history pieces
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Lisa Perry / KANSAN
Studying history can liberate Black people from the non-Black interpretations of history that oppress them, said an historian in a speech last night at the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium.
Phillip True Jr., a computer entrepreneur from Minneapolis, Minn., told an audience of about 30 people that power was the ability to define reality and convince others to accept it. The perceptions of reality that must be replaced, he said, are the ones that hold Black people inferior.
Phillip True Jr., historian and computer entrepreneur from Minneapolis, Minn., shows an illustration in a book to substantiate the explanation of man's African origins in his presentation entitled "Knowledge is Power." True's speech last night was part of the kickoff of African American history moorth.
"One who names you defines you and owns you." he said.
True said that history showed the contributions of Black people to world history.
"Greek philosophers went to Egypt to learn," he said. "However, for some reason, we don't think about Egyptians as Blacks. The rock Polaroids, as I call Egyptian sculptures, show us their Negroid features."
Despite this historical reality, some people still define Black people as inferior, he said.
"Your skin doesn't produce brain cells," he said. "If someone in college hasn't told you that, there is a problem. You should have learned that in kindergarten."
True said that an instrument used to oppress Black people was the Bible.
"The King James version of the Bible was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, the person who started the slave trade," he said, showing the audience the first page of the Bible.
"The same people who were offering spiritual salvation for transplanted Africans weren't offering physical liberation," he said. "If you leave someone else to define your reality, you will face serious problems like this one."
True said that religion maintained oppression of Black people by claiming that only certain people were chosen by God. But all religions originated in Africa, he said.
"The first god was African," he said. "But
now other people think they have been chosen by God."
He said that the idea of chosen people meant that other people weren't chosen.
nature and other people work together.
A better understanding of history could help to stop non-Black control over African Americans, True said.
"You can't undo what they did to you unless you know what happens in chronological history," he said. "If you don't know, you can't defend yourselves."
Jessica Keith, president of the Black Student Union, said True's lecture taught African Americans about the importance of history in defining themselves.
"This lecture makes us conscious of the achievements that Blacks have given to the world and not only to America," Keith said. "We walk around trying to define ourselves, but we have been already defined by the knowledge that we gave to other cultures."
KU employees to pay more for tickets
By Matt Hood
Kansan staff writer
KU employees will have to pay 5 to 30 percent more for football and basketball tickets next season.
Victoria Thomas, University counsel, told the Senate Executive Committee yesterday that faculty discounts, which range from 25 to 50 percent, would need to be reduced to a maximum of 20 percent to comply with Internal Revenue Service rules.
"We have tried to act in a responsible manner," Thomas said. "We want to make sure the University is in compliance with the law and that its employees are being treated appropriately."
Thomas said it would be legal to leave discounts at their current level but that any discount above 20 percent would be taxable.
Thomas said IRS rules allow an employee discount of 20 percent on season tickets. Any discount greater than 20 percent would be considered taxable income.
A money value would be assigned to the value of discounts more than 20 percent. Employees would have to add this amount to their W-2
In the past two years, Thomas said, the IRS had audited 11 colleges and universities — specifically about employee fringe benefits.
The University of Nebraska was recently audited, Thomas said. Nebraska reduced its discount to 20 percent and was taxed for the years that its employee discounts exceeded that mark.
The University of Kansas is the only university in the Big Eight Conference where employee ticket discounts exceed 20 percent.
Victoria Thomas University counsel
Thomas said the University would then withhold extra money from employee paychecks and pay Social Security, Medicaid and unemployment taxes on the value of the discount.
Chancellor Del Shankel said employees would both love and hate the lower discounts. They would love the avoidance of extra taxes and paperwork but would hate losing the higher discounts, he said.
Thomas was hopeful that quick compliance with IRS rules would prevent KU from having to pay back taxes.
"Nothing is ever crystal clear on any day with the IRS."Thomas said.
If all current ticket holders buy new season tickets with the lower discounts, the Athletic Department would make an additional $75,000 to $90,000.
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