KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.86 No.128
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 22.1976
SenEx creates scholarship panel
By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
SenEn voted yesterday to create a grievance panel to decide under what conditions student athletes should lose their scholarships.
The panel, which will comprise members of the University Judiciary Committee, will take over the duty from the Conference on Financial Aid to Students (FASC). FASC was instructed to limit its activities to advising on financial aid policy.
SenEx sent back a year-end FASC report filed last week and a two-page addition to that report filed yesterday by one FASC member. SenEx asked FASC to combine the two into a single report that would be acceptable to all FASC members.
THE TWO-PAGE addition was filed by FASC member Anne Harlsenske, Wichita senior, who told SenEx she was displeased with the decision that her report had been drafted at a special
meeting of FASC, which she couldn't attend.
Harlenske said she objected to the present system of revoking athletic scholarships. Now, FASC decides whether an athlete who quits his team should lose his athletic scholarship and has never given FASC specific authority to determine athletic scholarship cases.
Harlenske said she specifically objected to four pages of the report that give tentative guidelines for use in decisions involving the revocation of scholarships. Those guidelines equate withdrawal from an athletic team and fraud, she said. They also violate NCAA and Big Eight rules, she said.
NCAA AND Big Eight rules state that scholarships can be withdrawn only if the athlete is guilty of "fraudulent characterism" of his intent to participate in a sport.
Harlenske said the guidelines submitted
with the FASC year-end report would require a group that ruled on an athletic scholarship to consider an athlete who quit a team guilty of fraudulent behavior.
The burden of proof of fraud should lie with the athletic department that is seeking to revoke the scholarship, she said, and not with the athlete.
That would make an athlete "gully until proven innocent," she said. There are special cases when an athlete must quit his job, and no fraud is involved, she said.
ANOTHER COMMITTEE member, Tom Donaldson, Wichita graduate student, told SenXe he didn't think voluntary withdrawal would work for the reexecution of an athletic scholarship.
Donaldson said that NCAA and Big Eight guidelines require a school to continue to provide financial aid to an athlete who quits a team unless the athletic department can prove the athlete was attempting to commit fraud.
Shorter fiscal period creates revenue-sharing fund decrease
By JANET SCHMIDT
Staff Writer
Requests by community service groups for 1977 allocations from federal revenue-sharing funds should be harder to meet than they were this year.
Lawrence will receive about $330,000 in revenue-sharing funds for six months from the City of Wilmington. Wilden, assistant city manager, said last week the city received $678,078 for fiscal year.
Of the $30,000, Wildgen said, about $147,000 will be available for people programs and other projects. People programs refer to independent community service groups and associations, such as Penn House, the Consumer Affairs Commission on Aging, and the East and North Lawrence Improvement Associations.
The remaining $138,000, he said, has already been committed to two capital improvement projects: expansion of Lawrence Memorial Hospital ($100,000) and renovation of the building housing the police departments at 749 Vermont ($83,000).
APPLICATIONS FOR allocations of revenue-sharing funds will be accepted at the city manager's office until the end of April. The Lawrence City Commission will hold public hearings in May to decide distribution of the funds.
The reason for the decrease in revenue-saving funds, Wiltgen said, is the length of time that is necessary to recover from an
Kansan applications due noon Monday
Applications for staff positions on the summer and fall Kansans are now available in the Student Senate office, the dean of men's office, the dean of women's office or 108 Flint Law School. Job interviews will be Monday afternoon and all day Tuesday.
--the people's Republic of China in May, Lebanon, who invented an Asian language computer codec, would act as cultural adviser to the US government.
Revenue-sharing funds are distributed to state and local governments for entitlement periods of six or 12 months. The fiscal 1976 months, from July 1, 1975, to June 30, 1976.
However, the fiscal 1977 entitlement period is six months, from July 1 to Dec. 31, and it continues through June. The five-year revenue-sharing program began in December 1972 by former President Richard M. Nixon. The first month of that program began January 1, 1972.
A BILL TO continue revenue-sharing is in
us U. House of Representatives and is
not yet in effect.
Wildgen said he had talked to Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., in March about the bill.
"He said he thought there was support for it in Congress," Wilden said. "But what happens with that?"
The bill might change present policy for distributing revenue-sharing funds, he said.
The 1972 revenue-sharing legislation authorized $2.0 billion for payment over a period of time, and it requires institutions. Congress is apparently considering restricting that distribution so that funds
"It looks like annual appropriations," Wildgen said. "But the Ford administration has supported an increase in the total allocation."
He said the new program would probably require more citizen participation and priority in allocations for people programs. He said it was important to foster older civil rights requirements, he said.
Policies for spending revenue-sharing funds are decided by the local governments. The only federal restriction is that spending revenue-sharing funds be categorized into categories: public safety, environmental protection, public transportation, health, recreation, libraries, social services for the elderly.
THOSE CHANGES represent a contrast to present federal policy on revenue sharing.
The advantage for local governments of
virtually free federal control over spending
Revenue sharing was introduced by
Nixon to prevent increased taxes and improve public services by returning a portion of the federal tax dollar to local communities. State and local governments are required in proportion to their population receive the largest share of revenue-sharing funds.
When the program ends in December,
Lawrence will have received about $2.86
million in revenue-sharing funds for seven
entitlement periods.
OF THAT AMOUNT, about $2.26 million or 30 per cent, will have been allocated for the education program.
-$444,444 for the city-county judicial building of the east Douglas County Courthouse. The police department will move into the building in November 1976.
-$75,600 for renovation of the police and fire departments building on Vermont. The building will house the fire department and apartment moves to the new judicial building.
-$270,000 for renovation of the Community Building 115 W. 11th. The project was funded by a grant from the Library Foundation.
Harlenski said any group that hears athletic scholarship cases gets its authority from the NCAA, and is required to follow NCAA guidelines.
See REVENUE page 6
"The final (FASC) report goes blatantly against NCAA and Big Eight rules by equating fraud and voluntary withdrawal," she said.
AFTER THE meeting, FASC chairman Louis Burmester, professor of mechanical engineering, said he didn't anticipate any future problems with FASC report and Hurlenke's objections.
"I'm sure that we can sit down and resolve the matter," he said.
In other action, FacEx asked Barkley Clark, professor of law, to determine whether University of Kansas ad- dopts the purchase of a new faculty club building.
Clark said that he thought there would be administration support of a new faculty club, but that faculty members shouldn't be building purchased or built before two years.
The purchase or construction of a new faculty club would require financial support from the Endowment Association, Clark said. But because the endowment Association is now helping finance the Helen Foresman Memorial Scholarship, they undertake new building projects, he said.
WHEN THE NEW museum of art is completed next year, the Endowment Association may be more willing to give social support to a faculty club, Clark said.
"I think it'll come about in time if we keep pushing." he said.
Clark said there were two favorable locations for a new faculty club. One is on Oread near the Kansas Union. The other site is near the location of the future Schiller University. Clark said that Spooner Hall, which will be vacant upon completion of the new art museum couldn't be used because that building had been declared a fire hazard. FACEX CHAIRMAN Gerhard Zuther, professor of English, said that Clark should get a long-range commitment to support a faculty club from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Zuther said that once a "commitment to the principle" of a faculty club was received from administrators, the project would be taken over by a small group of faculty who had kept the idea of a faculty club alive since the last faculty club closed in 1967.
Iranian protest
Photo by CORKY TREWIN
In silent protest against what they call the Shah of Iran's "dictatorial regime," five KU students rode through campus yesterday. The Iranian Student Association is sponsoring a conference featuring Richard Eden of Amnesty International and the National Lawyers' Guild at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
$50 million to help Med Center
By MARION ABARE
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—An appropriation of more than $50 million by the Kansas Legislature for the KU Medical Center in fiscal 1977 is expected to enhance and facilitate programs of health care and education service.
Robert B. Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said yesterday, "I think the state has been very good to us in providing high-quality international program, and we're very pleased."
A request by the Board of Regents for a 12 per cent increase in other operational expenses (OE) was reduced to 10 per cent, and the Board approved an additional 12 per cent approval, plus an additional
$500,000 to increase the Med Center's expenditure ceiling.
KUGEL SAID the inflationary spiral of plastics, paper and rubber goods, accompanied by sophisticated hospital procedures such as organ transplants and biotechnology research, operating costs. Charges to patients for these costs produce income for the hospital, he said, but the expenditure ceiling is fixed, regardless of the income produced by the
J. Howard Feldmann, associate vice chancellor for finance, said, "We're pleased with the 12 per cent increase plus the $500,000 for hospital operation. It shows that officials are recognizing the mounting hospital operating costs. Whether these changes can be made adequate to meet the service load and intensity of care remains to be seen."
China trip upcomina
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies and Oriental languages and literature, will be making his first trip to
Photo by CORKY TREWIN
KUGEL SAID he preferred that there be no expenditure ceiling. He said some things had skyrocketed in costs, particularly the cost of hospital care; the hospital is earning money and can't spend it, he said, and when there is no ceiling, the rate is raised as costs increase and the cost falls.
"I would hope that I could talk at a later time about removing the ceiling because that would allow us to adapt to the cost matters." Kueel said.
Salaries and wages
$17,112,674
Operating expenses for salaries
1,932,998
Operating expenses for utilities
1,932,998
Handlers training opportunities
3,088,221
Handlers travel outreach
5,281,682
Cyclic frictions cost
10,000
A total of $25,315,010 was appropriated
from state general revenue funds, broken down as follows:
THAT LEAVES six and a half per cent to be distributed, he said. The distribution is made up of 70 percent of the department chairmen and approved by the vice chancellor for faculties and academic affairs, he said. The increases, he said, can range from nothing to whatever is needed.
The increase in salaries for unclassified employees was granted at 8 per cent.
He explained that about one and a half percent was used to provide for promotions, correct any salary inequities and allow for transfers from departments, private gifts and federal money.
"This does not mean everyone gets an 8 per cent raise." Feldmann said.
The legislature also authorized **$23,818,062**
expenditures from hospital revenue.
fin.
An additional $600,000 was appropriated to offset the capitain grant loss for fiscal 1977. The legislature had appropriated a supplemental $320,000 for fiscal 1978.
Russell Mills, associate vice chancellor, said the federal grant money was based on the number of students, the number of graduates in four years and bonuses for a 5 per cent or more increase in the size of an entering class. Although much of this grant
**THIS IS the first year that utilities have been budgeted separately. Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said. He said this was an attempt to keep better records of the rapidly increasing costs of utilities. Feldman said there is little evidence that we are preparing for fiscal 78. The appropriation for fiscal 77 is $162,900 more than last year.
money has been lost, he said, the Med
Centre expects to fund $800,000 in
fuel costs (to be discussed).
Sixty-four new classified positions, 34
unclassified positions and 9 new residences
| New classified positions | Regents' requests | Allocated |
| :--- | :--- | ---: |
| Academic | 1 | 4 |
| Facility outreach | 1 | 1 |
| Fidelity branch | 9 | 4 |
| Hospital | 105 | 16 |
| Hospital | 14 | 7 |
| New unclassified positions (including nursing education) | 32 | 8 |
| Nursing education | 8 | 4 |
| Welfare branch | 16 | 10.3 |
| Hospital | 1 | 1 |
| Hospital | 6 | 2 |
| New residences | | |
| Family practice | 8 | 8 |
| Outreach | 7 | 0 |
| Hospital | 0 | 3 |
Twenty additional residencies had been requested for St. Francis Hospital. St. Joseph Hospital and Wesley Medical Center in Wichita but weren't authorized.
See MED page 10
Placement office director hired
A new University job placement office will open July 1 after yesterday's appointment of Vernon Geissler as its placement director.
Getsalier is now associate director of Kansas State University's Career Planning Center.
William Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs, announced the appointment and said Geissler would direct central KU's program coordination of KU's placement programs.
Placement programs at KU are now divided among various schools. Some schools and departments have no placement programs. Balfour said.
HE SAID Geisler would help develop
programs to serve students now not
before.
"The other schools' programs will con-
time to run as they are now," Baifour said.
"He (Geissler) will help them. All placement officers have other duties in the University."
"We've done relatively little to help students get placed there," he said.
Balfour said the administration had planned to create an office in the past, but funding hadn't been available until this year.
"I would just say that we'll all be working
Gessler said his work at KU shouldn't offer much from the work he is now doing.
BALFOUR SAID that Geissler had a number of contacts and that he expected Geissler would be especially concerned with placing students in federal governments.
together at making it more effective for both recruiters and students." he said.
Geisler said he would work with the placement offices already on campus but would give special attention to the areas not now served. He said he would also supervise Work Force, a direct-mail placement operation funded by the Student Senate.
Work Force, in its third year at KU, is especially concerned with finding jobs for students in small businesses that don't send recruiters to campus. Balfour said.
GEISLISER HAS 10 years of experience in college placement. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from K-State and was formerly a county agriculture agent.
He is now president of the Midwest College Placement Association and a member of the National College Placement Association.