THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.150
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
New meanings pervert old words See page 3
Tuesday, June 22.1976
Higher tuition on agenda
By the Kansan Staff
A tuition increase at least $50 a semester for resident students and $150 for nonresidents beginning the fall of 1977 could be made today by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Glee Smith, Board of Regents chairman,
said yesterday that the Regents would
be posting the text of this morning. But if they find they don't
have enough information to make a decision today, the tuition hike question would be postponed until the Regents' August 13
THE COUNCIL of Presidents, made up of presidents of the Board of Regents' colleges and universities, made a counter proposal of a $5.5 million increase. That would mean a $50 increase per semester for residents and $150 for non-residents.
One proposal, which was formulated by the 1922 Commission of the Kansas legislature, calls for a $9.1 million increase, or a $30 million increase, in墨ester for resident schools, at all state universities.
Smith called the proposal from the Council of Presidents "more realistic," and said it would receive more serious consideration from the Revents.
"I think it's in line with what's needed," he said.
Although the Karas Legislature makes appropriations which feed the operating funds for the Regents' schools, the recommendation from the legislative 1202 Commission isn't banning. Only the Board of Regents can determine student tuition and
"THE LOGISLATURE does have some
reason to matter, but we see the
fees, Smith said.
The 1020 Commission is a generic name given all committees in the country set up to coordinate the activities of the Commission.
Title 1202 requires that all universities set up educational planning committees. Kansas' committee is known officially as the Legislative Education Planning Committee, one of its kind in the country composed entirely of members of the state legislature.
SMITH SAID the proposal from the Council of Presidents would bring the proportion of students in their education to approximately 25 per cent. The recommendation from the 1202 Commission would result in students paying slightly more than 25 per cent of that cost.
University of Kansas students currently pay 22 per cent of the cost of their schooling. The average for all Regents' universities is 19 per cent.
All student fees go into the general operating fund of the university they attend. Smith said he thought a flat increase for all of the Reserves' schools was appropriate
THREE YEARS ago, tuition was raised at the universities in the Regents' system: KU, K-State and Wichita State. But it's been eight years since the last raise at Fort Hays State College, Kansas State College at Pittsburg and Emporia Kansas State College, the colleges in the Regents' system.
B-school lacks blacks, women in recent surge
Enrollment in business schools nationwide is increasing rapidly, and KU's school is "bursting at the seams," Dean Joseph Pichler said vetteday.
Enrollment in the undergraduate business program has increased 36 per cent since 1974, he said, though the number of white and black students is still relatively low.
Business has come of age as a respected area of collegiate study, Picher said, and today's business school isn't simply a training school, but an attempt to apply liberal arts knowledge to the traditional areas of business.
The school is eager to expand the number of women and blacks enrolled, he said, and the number of girls enrolled will increase.
"Historically, minorities have not chosen business as a field of study," Pichler said. Only 10 of the business school's 1,200 students are black, he said.
Pichler said the business school should be attractive to black students because the economic opportunities are unlimited. He said minorities who were active in business could have an impact on society and help solve problems of discrimination.
Blacks in the school have shown interest in increasing black enrollment, Pichler said. The Black Business School Council (BBSC) has started a counseling and program and has brought black high school students to the school to encourage them to pursue a degree.
The BBSC has also solicited about $3,000 from private firms for minority scholarships.
Enrollment of women in the business school is also low. Pichler said that of the 1976 business school graduates, only 12 per cent were women. He said that in three or four years women could comprise 40 to 50 per cent of the business school enrollment.
“It's appropriate at this time for a flat
statement,” he said, that the Council is
proposing, "Srith said."
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said the Council of Presidents' proposal was "lower than many others that were floating around as possible alternatives."
"My guess is that there will probably be some increase in fees for the fall semester and I hope that they will increase by no more than was suggested by the Council," he said.
HOWEVER, SMITH said any fee increase wouldn't become effective until the 1977-78 law.
Tedd! Tashse, student body president,
said she would probably support the $5.5
million fee increase because she thought if
would help avoid harmful budget cuts later.
Regents recommend part of new program requests
Faculty merit pay increases, fee waivers for graduate students and computer funding are some of the budget items she said she was afraid would be cut if Regents' universities don't support a tuition raise, Tasheff said.
by TOM BOLITHO
The Kansas Board of Regents yesterday recommended an increase of $6.7 million in the operating budget of the University of Kansas for fiscal year 1978.
The Regents' approval of the $6.7 million increase gives KU a total operating budget request of $88,210,954. University officials also approve the governor and the legislature in August.
Partial approval was also given for the maintenance and replacement of scientific and teaching equipment, $169,476 of the cost, by the second second on the priority list, Shankel said.
"I wish that the Regents had been able to approve more requests," Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday. "But they under the restraints from inflation and a tight fiscal year. We fared reasonably well in new and improved program requests, though you always wish you could get more funding."
The Regents gave full approval to seven of KU's new and improved programs requests. They were: study of the chemical quality, training in Western European cooking, $13,600; physical placements provements, $12,460; operation of the new Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, $100,734; development of special education programs, $64,648; master's degree programs, $54,098; salary payments for unused sick leave at retirement, $74,150; and expiration of secondary prospects of hydrocarbon prospects in Kansas 440 460
The Regents approved $19,500 of the $2.5 million increase sought by the University for new and improved programs. Partial approval was given for increased library support, $180,000 of the $300,000 requested. Regents last week that library support was the first priority on the new and improved programs list.
KU also received approval to seek a $31 million increase in the general use fund and to increase the number of students to fund. Included in these increases is a seven per cent faculty merit salary raise, $259,716; for unclassified salaries and benefits, $484,887; and new maintenance positions, $488,887.
The Regents completely cut a program for the severely handicapped in rural areas and a program for the replacement of federal capitation grants for the School of Pharmacy. Shankel said that these two programs were high on the priority list.
The longest day
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
Yesterday the sun reached its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, the summer solstice. so the sum final set over Frazier
Hall, students at the University of Kansas experienced the longest day of the year.
Leaders consider problems of black faculty
By KATHY SOKOL
and
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
DWIGHT THOMAS
Staff Writers
After pouring the mold for the statue that will be used as the new national symbol for the Federal Weather Bureau, Elden Teft (left), professor of painting and sculpting, and David Boon (right) Lawrence special student, unloaded what was left of the molten bronze in a chamber of molten ingots, a form that could be kept easily and used at a later date. See story on page 2.
Formal discussion of the problems of retaining and recruiting black faculty members at the University of Kansas began last night when University administrators met with a two-member faculty steering committee.
"Before this it was disjointed communication; now it is rational and organized planning," Harrison Smith, associate professor of social welfare, said.
Hot stuff
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
who arranged the meeting, said, "There are
a lot of things that we are trying to do but it
is a slow process."
RON CALGARD, vice chancellor for academic affairs; William Argersinger; vice chancellor for research and graduate programs; William Hogan for student affairs; and William Hogan, associate dean of the school of engineering committee, were at the meeting.
Hogan said, "The meeting was an indication of people interested in arresting the problems, although there was a difference of opinion in how to obtain our goals."
Shankel said, "We are trying to recruit more minority teachers, but the demand for minority teachers exceeds the supply. There are a number of areas where there is a need." Ph.D.s are a very limited number. Ph.D.s in business and mathematics."
Robert Sanders, associate professor of biochemistry, said, "I think KU has a problem in competing because first KU is in the Midwest and the concentration of
minorities is in the east, west and south parts of this country."
SANDERS, A member of the black faculty for ten years, said he was disappointed to see that the retention rate of black faculty was low.
"To see that 20 per cent of the black faculty is leaving a bit high," Sandif
Six black faculty members will leave in positions they are rent for jobs at other institutions and pursue degrees.
Jacob Gordon, associate professor of African studies, said he thought the reason for his interest was the lack of
compete effectively for qualified blacks professionals; not just in terms of salaries, but in terms of a community which people want to live in."
Gordon said there were no black professionals who were native to Lawrence and that it was the community and school that bring black professionals into the area.
ANOTHER SOLUTION, according to Gordon, would be for KU to adopt a reverse discriminatory practice in which minorities are paid high salaries.
"We have to allow the job market to
By KARENSALISBURY
Ritter says civil rights lag at KU
See FACULTY page 2
Discrimination in both employment and academic recruiting continues at the University of Kansas, according to Bonnie Bracken, director of the Office of Affirmative Action.
The squealing of tires has recently sounded from Jayhawk Drive as they go up the hill. Signs stop signs at the intersection with Sunflower Road by Watson Library.
"We consistently confuse saying we believe something and doing it," she said in a speech last night at Swarthout Recipe Hall.
Speaking on the topic of "The Continuing American Revolution," Fitter said a revolution wasn't continuing in the progress of civil rights.
RITTER SAID KU was losing minority faculty members and making little progress in bringing women's salaries up to men's or cutting new women and minority faculty.
For the 1974-75 fiscal year, recruitment of
"It seems like we were going somewhere and then chanced our minds," she said.
She said KU was losing minority faculty because the already small number of faculty members would be gone.
"There is no social life for the black professional in Lawrence," she said. "We have failed to develop the kind of com- munity would attract major black scholars."
The intersection became a four-way stop Friday afternoon.
THE ABSENCE OF a larger minority presence, rather than problems over salary and benefits.
KU installs 2 stop signs
Bob Ellison, captain of KU police, said yesterday no tickets had been issued for not stopping at the sign.
Ritter said her office was concerned with salary discrepancies between men and women.
"We will warn for a short period of time," he said.
Ellison said the signs were installed for safety reasons because an increase in night classes had increased traffic on Jawhack Drive.
minority faculty showed that minority persons were offered no full professorships; 1.3 per cent of the all associate professorships offered; 1.1 per cent of all the assistant professorships offered; and 5 per cent of all the instructorships offered.
DEPARTMENTS DON'T get applicants unless they have a reputation for hiring minority persons, she said but sometimes the recruitment candidates because of poor recruiting channels.
"KU depends on the grapevine to recruit minorities," she said.
Ritter said that the university community
had been protected from taking responsibility for a short shortage of minority faculty.
"We must look at ourselves honestly," she said.
THE IMPLEMENTATION of anti- discrimination policies will be complicated in the light of a new law.
"There is an increasing anger towards women and minorities," she said. "All federal legislation is heaped together and resented in the minds of many."
The existence of reverse discrimination or discrimination directed towards white persons is still unresolved.
Director's job at SIU looks good to Savers
By LEWIS GREGORY
Gale Sayers, assistant director of the Williams Fund at the University of Kansas, said yesterday he thought his chances of winning would be good. Illinois in Carbondale, III., were good.
Sayers, the former Kansas all-American who has been with the KU athletic department for three and one-half years, is one of five men named as finalists for the position. Sayers will interview for the position July 5 or 6.
"I WANT to be an athletic director and I'm looking forward to interviewing with you."
Also under consideration for the job are:
Paul Lambert, SIU basketball coach; Leo Cahn, SIU athletic director; Memphis Southman of the World Football League; Dale Foster, athletic director at Dayton University; and Bill Blekrak, athletic director at Arizona University.
The position opened when SIU athletic director Dou Weaver resigned to take the head coaching role.
Southern Illinois University has two
"I've never been on the SIU campus, but I've read about it and know persons who graduated from there and work there," Savers said.
Sayers is the last candidate to be interviewed by the SIU selection committee. He said he expected the new director would assume the position August 1.
SAYERS SAID he didn't want to talk about his reasons for wanting to leave KU but said he would discuss matters later if he were appointed athletic director at SIU.
major campuses, at Carbondale and at Edwardsville. Together, the campuses comprise a university with a full-time enrolment of almost 30,000, ranking it as one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The Carbondale campus is located 100 miles northeast of St. Louis.
Sayers starred for the Jayhawks during the 1962-63-64 seasons before gaining a greater reputation with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.
HE WAS a two-time all-American at Kansas and was selected to the all-Big Eight team three consecutive years. Sayers finished his career in 1965, times and was Rockie of the Year in 1968.
Sayers totaled 2,675 career yards and scored 20 touchdowns as a Jaiyhawk. During his sophomore season he rushed for 1,125 vardens and seven touchdowns.
After a junior season of 917 yards, Sayers was considered a Heisman Trophy candidate, but he had only 833 yards and five touchdowns his final season at KU.
After college Sayers was the first-round draft choice of the Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Bears won his contract from the Chiefs.
SAYERS' PRO career was shortened by injuries to both knees. He had a total of five operations on his knees. His last injury came in 1970.
After his last operation, Sayers decided to make one last effort with the bears. He had a discouraging year and announced his retirement in September, 1972.
Savers then lived in Chicago, where he worked for a stock brokerage company.