DREARY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.125
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 16, 1976
Relays Edition Med Center and Sports
See Sections 2 and 3
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Races and rain
sony tannels, Wichita junior, nervously watched the finals of the mens intramural 44th day of the onsite opening day of the Kansas Relings. Lending both support and assistance to Wichita junior, they also received a generous tip.
City workers vote for Teamsters
By JANET SCHMIDT
After four weeks of negotiations,
Lara left her employee yesterday
affiliated with the HR department.
Workers belonging to four associations of the united Public Employees Association of Lawrence (UPEA) joined the Teamsters to resolve conflicts with city management.
"They didn't want to give us any of the rights of working people," Demis Smith, president of the UPEA, said last night. The UPEA was dissolved by the affiliation.
THE FOUR ASSOCIATIONS joining the Teamsm are composed of workers from the sanitation, street, water and parks and recreation departments. The other two units in the UPEA, the police and fire departments, didn't join the union.
Smith said the workers had joined the
Teamsters because the city's resolution to their charges of malamagement was
"The majority of the members in the association (UPEA) thought it was a pacifier," he said. "Buffed Watson (city councilman) said the dissension are bringing the Teens' notices, not us."
"If they had tried to keep it in the family and sit down and talk to us, we wouldn't have had to affiliate with a national organization."
THE UPEA BEGN negotiating with city administrators more than 10 months ago for improvements in the working conditions and wages of public employees.
They presented their grievances to the Lawrence City Commission in a list of 24 charges of mismanagement, including managerial harassment of employees, lack
IN FEBRUARY the commission adopted a 28-point resolution intended to answer the employees' grievances. Some of the measures included in the resolution were: vehicle safety inspections, revamped training program, equipment tester and revision of employee evaluations.
Smith said the workers joined the Teamsters about the city's resolution
Of the reports, Smith said. "We told it like they told it, they told it had—to they covered it."
A committee of three representatives from both the city commission and the employees spent two months investigating the charges. Two reports, one from the commission's representatives and one from the employees, were then presented to the city commission.
of safety, favoritism, confusion of work procedures and racial discrimination.
Increase in parking fees rejected
Rv.JERRY SEIR
By SELF PRESS Staff Writer
The University Council voted yesterday to keep this year's parking fees for next year, rejecting higher fees proposed by the parking and traffic board.
The council also voted to make students subject to the withdrawal policy of the school offering a course, brought the Affirmative Action Board under University Senate and refused to let the deans take any action in response to the Human Relations Committee.
The final decision on next year's parking fees will be made by the Chancellor's office.
D Denkhol, executive vice chancellor,
sad last night that he thought a decision on
the reauthorization would be possible.
"I think it's possible to go another year without increased fees." Shankel said.
SHANKEL SAID he would meet with representatives of the Office of Business Affairs to determine whether parking services could operate and make adequate parking lot improvements without higher costs. An ammunitionization to Chapelore Archi R, Dykes.
Parking Services, a division of KU Police and Parking, maintains and patrols campus parking areas. It is funded entirely by parking fees and fines.
The council was considering a proposed
2 schools to study GPA's
Following the vote, Hugh Cotton,
chairman of the parking and traffic board,
 told the council he thought it had been a
mistake to defeat the higher fees.
COTTONSAID the O-zone paving project, along with parking services operating expenses for the summer months, would greatly deplete the fund.
Tedde Tasheff, student body president,
told Cotton the state had put a spending
limit of $167,000 on the parking services
fund for the remainder of the fiscal year,
$147,000.
He said a proposed re-paving of O-zone parking lot, near Allen Field House, would take $250,000 of a current $469,000 parking services fund.
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The Kansas board will interview candidates and select the editors and business
Applications are available in 105 Flint, the dean of women's office, the dean of men's office.
The two schools with the highest grade point averages (GPA) at the University will study their grading practices to see whether change is needed.
Applications for editor and business manager of the Kansan for the summer and fall semesters will be accepted until noon today. in 106 Flln Hall.
RALPH CHRISTOFFERSEN, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the schools' plans sounded "good for a start." The administration hopes schools will evaluate their grading on a regular basis. he said.
By JANICE EARLY and RITA RIDDER
An administration report on grade inflation over the past five years was released Monday. It showed that the School of Social Welfare led with a GPA of 3.437 on a 4.0 scale, and the School of Education was next with 3.369.
Kansan jobs open
"Now that we have our collecting system set up, we hope to be able to give schools data each year on their grades," he said. "It will be an interesting and different job to
"I don't think anyone can actually order a professor to lower his grades," he said.
Scannell said grading policies would be discussed by each department in his school and reports would be made. The reports will be referred to the Administration and Standards Committee for evaluation and recommendations, he said.
Theodore Ersten, dear of social welfare, said Monday that his school's faculty would meet to discuss the situation and see if they should be done to lower the average GPA.
didn't satisfactorily resolve the grievances and because the city had refused to recognize the UPEA as a collective barreaining unit.
Dale Scannell, dean of education, said yesterday that his school's administrative group had agreed to study the problem after the report was released.
His school is considering making changes independent of the departments, Scannell institute, which offers the degree.
He said the workers thought they would have greater strength as a bargaining unit with the support of a national labor organization like the Teamsters.
"I think some good can come out of careful reflection on this," he said.
Other factors contributing to the high GPA average could be attributed to the grading policies of individual professors, Ernst said.
"The Teamsters are a powerful backing," Smith said. "They've got attorneys, money and gerrymanders."
HE SAID it was difficult to determine how much an individual president's right to run was limited.
At its April 1 meeting, the council discussed the proposed fees for two hours. But when a motion was made to vote on the proposal, it wasn't present, forcing the meeting to restart.
UNIVERSAL, medical and handicapped,
brown, yellow, blue and red permits now
cost $30; green, $25; and residence hall and
Sorana Apartments. $15.
The School of Law, which is strictly a private institution, has the lowest average PA of any school or college.
fee schedule that would have set the prices of universal permits at $50; medical and handcapped permits at $46; blue and red permits at $36; brown and yellow permits at $32; green permits at $28; residence hall and Sprause Apartments at $17.
Smith said the workers had also come to Smith that the city administrators won't be able to monitor the situation.
Ermst said that the law school's average GPA, 2.685, was low because the school required a 2.0 average rather than the 3.0 average required by the School of Social
Yesterday, the council took up the proposal at this point, and the higher fees were added.
see what trends we haven't discussed before."
"WE WERE LOOKING for somebody that is concerned about us," he said. "They're (the city) asked for it, so why not give it to them?"
The report released Monday was just a summary, he said, to give the administration more insight.
"We will make available for individual schools detailed information about individual courses if they want to look at it," he said.
Scannell said there may be an attitude of taking formal grading less seriously in the School of Education because instructors tend to rely on written evaluations.
These letters examine a student's strengths and weaknesses, Scannell said. Ernst said Wednesday that the high GPA was basically a result of enrollment factors.
More than half the school's students, he said, are in the graduate division, and the other half consists primarily of juniors and seniors, with practically no freshmen and sophomores. The department offers only courses at the freshman-sophomore level.
SCANNELL AND Ernst speculated on why their schools' GPA's were so high.
ERNST SAID graduate students had to maintain a GPA of 3.0. In the undergraduate division, Ernst said, junior grades may make higher grades than underclassmen.
Scannell said that the GPA's of the University and his school were too high, and the difficulty stemmed from interpreting KU's grading system.
A C is given for average work, a B or
a superior work and an A for a superior
work.
He said students could take a course for any length of time, because of incomplete or withdrawing and re-taking the course, until a desired level of competency was achieved.
Scannell said there was a prevailing attitude here toward "competency-based
"What is the reference group for average?" Scannell asked.
Smith said that the employees had intended to take their complaints against the city to federal court before joining the Teamsters, but that a suit wasn't yet filed.
He said that a student in education usually has personal recommendation letters from three or four instructors and his cooperating teacher in his placement
Anyone who graduates from the School of Education receives a lot of personal attention from faculty members and cooperating teachers, he said.
Ticket subsidy killed
THIS KIND of attitude, he said, is bound on some influence from grading stance.
Bruce Woner, Hutchinson senior, then stood up and called for a quorum.
Last night's meeting lasted less than 30 minutes. Immediately after a short officer's report from Tedde Tasheff, student body president, Steve Owens, student body vice president, announced that there wasn't a guorum.
that his proposal has failed, next year's fee will be $6.60.
"Time is the variable and achievement is the constant," Scannell said.
A bill that would have reinstated $80,000 in Senate funds to KUAC could not be voted on at last night's meeting because only 52 senators attended.
"BEFORE WE JOINED, we had a meeting with all of the city employees at the Community Building," he said. "It was our responsibility, 95 per cent solid support in the shops."
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation won't be getting any money from the university.
Smith, when asked about city officials' reactions, said, "We have talked of affiliation with a national organization for the last 10 months, and the feeling I had from the city commission was that they didn't care."
Senate rules state that a quorum, which is six members, must be present for the Senate to act.
There is no possibility of reinstating funding for next year because the University's deadline for completion of the Senate budget was this morning.
than action is taken, if there isn't
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The bill, sponsored by John Broadie,
sports committee cochairman, was aimed at lowering student ticket prices by sub-
tituting all online purchases with addition of $2.40 to the student activity fee.
Assistant City Manager Mike Wilden said last night that he wasn't surprised by the news that the employee had affiliated with the Teamsmets.
The bill would have made ticket prices $15.50 for football and $10 for basketball. Now that KUAC won't receive the subsidy, it will be $20 for football and $10 for basketball.
This year the tickets were $10 each.
Smith said the majority of the public employees favored affiliating with the
Broadie's bill also would have made the student activity fee $12 next month. But now
"The four associations are pleased that the Teamsters are coming in and we've found that the people we've talked to have been very helpful."
"I don't think that me and my people are in a position right now to take the city to court," he said. "It takes a lot of money. But we haven't given us on it completely."
"We've known for some time that this would take place," Wildgen said. "They could join any organization they want. It doesn't change the fact that the city commission has voted not to collective bargain."
Commissioner Barkley Clark's reaction to the affiliation was similar to Wilden's.
"Their joining the Teamsters doesn't change the posture of the city at all." Clark wrote in a letter from that decision—who they join—but the city does have control over recognition.
"As far as I'm concerned, that has already been decided."
University of Kansas offices and classroom buildings will be open Monday, but most libraries and the Kansas Union library are closed. Visit the Kansas Relay, and Easter weekend.
Easter weekend changes hours for libraries, Union
The Union will be open its regular hours
Clean-up
Sliding, baseball style, can be tough on dry ground. To ease the problem, for sliding practice the women's softball team wet the baseball gloves in the back yard.
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
few垫silden, Merethid Miller, Shawnee Mission sophomore, asked Lauret Faust, Mission Hills sophomore, to clean her off with the help of her friend, Rachel Kellogg.
tomorrow but will be closed Sunday and
open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Both巩
un bookstore will be open tomorrow
and open from 8:30 a.m. to noon Monday,
and open from 8:30 a.m. to noon Monday.
Food services at the Union will be open regular hours today. Tomorrow, the Level 3 room will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., and from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. for lunch. The Hawk's nest will be open tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Prairie Room will be closed.
Monday the Deli will be open from 7:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and Wescott Terrace will be open from 8:30 a.m.
Watson Library will be open from 9 a.m.
1 p.m. tomorrow, close Sunday and open
on Friday.
The Entomology Reading Room will be open 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday and closed tomorrow and Sunday. The Law Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow, noon to midnight Sunday and 8 a.m. to midnight Monday. Marvin Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. closed Sunday and open 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday.
The Mathematics Library will be closed Sunday and open from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday. The Music Library will be closed from noon tomorrow and Monday, but closed Sunday. The Music Library will also be closed Sunday but open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday. Both rooms will remain their regular hours.
Malott Hall's science library will be open tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sunday and open 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday. The Business and Economics Reading Room will be open from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow, closed Sunday and open 7 p.m. to noon tomorrow. The Business and Economics Room will be closed tomorrow and Sunday but open from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Monday.
The computation center will be open its regular hours tomorrow, Sunday and
Saturday.
Robinson Gymnasium will be closed tomorrow and Sunday but will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday. Allen Field House will also be closed tomorrow and Sunday but open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday.