Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Powwow problem
Monday, April 12, 1976
Russell Blackbird appears unconcerned as his son Travis struggles with a loose-fitting headband during a performance of the Guard dance at the Native American Alliance.
Union plans to be ratified
The Satellite Union Task Force will ratify its final recommendations for construction of the new satellite union tomorrow night.
Kansan jobs open
Applications for editor and business manager of the Kansan for the summer and fall semesters will be accepted until noon Friday, April 16, in 105 Flint Hall.
Applications are available in 105 Flint. The name of women's office, the dean of men's office, is not displayed.
Last night's public hearing was scheduled so that student opinions could be heard before the task force made its final report, but no students attended.
The Kansas board will interview candidates and select the editors and business managers.
Frank Burge, Kansas Union director, said the lack of attendance indicated that the task force had been successful in compiling data. But that students were satisfied with its work.
The Satellite Union was approved by a vote of the student body in February.
Recommendations that are ratified tomorrow night will be submitted to the Student Services committee for approval and then sent to the Student Senate Thursday night.
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.121
KUAC bill goes to Senate
By HARRIS RAYL and BARBARA ROSEWICZ
A bill to reinstate partial funding of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) will probably be presented at the Student Senate meeting tomorrow.
The bill was reviewed at the StudEx meeting last night.
Other bills to be presented at tomorrow's meeting concern student health services, the forensics block allocation, additional identification on publications funded by the Board of Regents as an auditor' s position and the six standing committees' budget recommendations.
Jim Cox, former parliamentarian, was introduced as the new treasurer. He was appointed by Teddie Tasheff, student body president.
The bill that would reinstate partial funding to KUAC is sponsored by John Broadle. It would give KUAC about $80,000 generated from a $2.40 increase in the student activity fee.
The bill faces a possible complication at tomorrow night's Senate meeting. StudEx last night couldn't put it on the regular agenda along with other bills to be considered by the Senate because it wasn't included in the Student Senate Record—the official newsletter sent to senators before each Senate meeting.
SENATE RULES STATE that any bill that would alter the Senate's Revenue Code, including Brocade's bill, must appear in the senate. The rules would be considered. According to Tashseff, the rule was aimed at making certain that senators would know about important legislation such as changing the revenue code; they would be aired to come to the meeting.
Broadie said he had simply overlooked the rule, which was brought to his attention at the StudEx meeting by Jon Josserand, Johnson senior.
For Brodie's bill to be heard, the Senate will have to vote to suspend the rules. Broadie said he would make a motion to do so at the meeting.
The Senate voted last fall to cut KUAC funding from the budget being considered this week by the Senate. Before that cut, the KUAC was to have received $14.5 of every student activity fee paid during the next month, which would have generated about $140,000.
IF BROADIE'S BILL passes tomorrow.
next year's ticket prices will be $15.50 for football and $10 for basketball
This year's football and basketball tickets were $10 each.
The funding would be in the form of a ticket subsidy. This means that by funding KUAC, the Senate would lower the ticket prices that students would pay next year.
Under Brodie's bill, the student activity fee would be $12 next year, the same as this year. If the Senate defeats the bill, the activity fee will be lowered to $9.60.
According to Doug Messer, KUAC business manager, KUAC will generate $15 million for the school year, either through a Senate subsidy, athletic ticket sales or both. If the Senate votes against funding KUAC, ticket sales will be $20 for football and $15 for basketball.
TASHEF SAID she met with Clyde Walker, athletic director, Friday about the proposed Senate subsidy. She said he had approved of the proposal but had said that if the Senate decided to subsidize KUAC with lower amount than Broadie proposed he would have to pay more. Tashef saffled, however, that Walker didn't say what he would do if the Senate decided
to decrease the size of the subsidy proposed by Broadie.
Jossner and Ed Rolfs, both members of StudEx, said they opposed reinstating KUAC funneling. They said they expected to be over the bill at tomorrow's meeting.
Rufa said he saw no justification in Senate funding of KUAC. He said the Senate's money should be used for student loans, not for the school district. KUAC, he said, wouldn't be hurt by a cut.
ROLFS ALSO SAID the ticket subsidiary was unfair because it taxed those students who didn't buy football and basketball in licensed prices provided to those who did buy tickets.
"I think it's patently unfair," he said. "Those who are going to benefit from the process of voting in a primary are."
All students pay a student fee activity, which would be used to subsidize KUAC under Brodie's bill, regardless of whether they buy athletic tickets.
Rolfs said KUAC was a nonprofit organization that made a profit, KUAC made a $70.00 profit last year, Rolfs said.
www.KUAC.org*
See KUAC page 2
KU receives $80-million budget
By JIM COBB
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
University of Kansas administrators are sleeping better and breathing easier following Friday's final legislative approval for a bill that would increase $80 million for the Lawrence campus.
In addition to feeling relieved at the end of a year-long process of budget preparation and a four-month struggle against possible legislative budget cuts, administrators said they were pleased with the final result, regardless of some cuts in proposed funding.
"I feel a sense of relief," Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said last night. "What pleases me most is that despite all of the criticism and negative comments of the legislature, it's been a very good year for higher education."
spend nearly $24 million of hospital revenues for fiscal 1977.
Among the most controversial parts of the budget, increases in faculty salaries and other operating expenditures (OE), weren't cut by the legislature after they originally were cut by the House Ways and Means Committee in March.
The remainder of KU's operating funds will come from university fees, federal grants and other sources. The Med Center also received legislative authorization to
Those increases remain at 8 per cent for faculty salaries and 10 per cent for OOE. The Med Center's hospital will be allowed a 12 per cent OOE increase.
with the exception of hospital expenditures,
the center from the governor's recommendation.
All the increases in salaries and OOE.
The planning stages of the budget, which will be submitted May 1 to the Kansas Board of Regents, began more than a year ago. The board's session began, concerns about the budget have kept university administrators working long hours and developing new strategies to convince an increasingly educated student body that need for more higher education funding.
The approved budget bill for all Board of Regents institutions is now on its way to Gov. Robert F. Bennett for signature. It includes $43,137,237 for the Lawrence County government fund and $23,515,000 for the KU Medical Center from general revenue funds.
Threats to further cut those increases were made by some legislators, particularly in the final weeks of the legislative session. University administrators and the Douglas County legislative delegation were told that legislative increases would be cut to 5 or 6 per cent.
The original 10 per cent salary increase proposal was part of the last step of a
three-year plan to raise KU's faculty pay to the level of many comparable universities.
The budget bill tred an uncertain path through the state legislature. It was sent from the House to the Senate, to the Ways and Means Committees of both houses, into a Joint House-Secret conference committee to back to the floors of both houses on Friday.
Minor changes and deletions were made at each step of the legislative process.
See BUDGET page 10
★ ★ ★
Budget requests left mostly intact
By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
When the Kansas legislature convened in January, it seemed the University of Kansas might see large chunks of its budget requests sliced away.
★ ★ ★
Salaries and salaries:
Unclassified salary increases 10
OBD Operating expenses incomes 8
New Classification positions 12
New Positioned position 27.4
Visual Area Building 8,030 lbs. $1,803 lbs.
Computer Service facility 1,560 lbs. $2,700 lbs.
Computer Service facility addition 2,700 lbs. $2,700 lbs.
Maloit Hall addition 600 lbs. $400 lbs.
Maloit Hall addition 600 lbs. $400 lbs.
Special Projects 13,936
Law Enforcement Training Center 131,323 83,370
Literary development 203,974 83,370
Literary development athletics 203,974 83,370
Audio-Reader 20,000
TW Production of educational equipment 14,940
TW Production inib 50,000
Reading Lists 34,868
State生物学 program 15,854 117,325
State Biology traverse 12,854 117,325
Traverse 17,477
But when the budget finally passed the legislature Friday, most original KU requests were intact, and in some cases, KU received more than it asked for.
In the Lawrence campus budget requests, all construction projects were fully funded, the 24.7 unclassified positions requested were granted and 74 new classified positions—one more than requested—were created.
Faculty salaries were increased by 8 per cent and other operating expenditures (OE) by 10 per cent, KU had requested 10 and 12 per cent increases respectively, but Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last night was be pleased with the final increases.
"WE'RE MOVING ahead," Dykes said. "Some of our sister states will not get comparable salary increases this year." The low salary is the final stage of
Dykes said early legislative attempts to cut the salary increases to 5 per cent had made it difficult to hold even the 8 per cent increases.
a three-year plan to upgrade KU faculty salaries. The plan had called for salaries to be 16 percent higher.
The legislature had appropriated the high increases the first two years, but some legislators were reluctant to follow through. Because the result was the smaller 8 per cent hike.
The salary increases are the final stage of
But Dykes said that, in spite of that, the plan had been in 'three exceptions' that he described as "significant."
The increases are moving ahead of inflation, he said, and faculty salaries now run up.
IN ADDITION TO the accumulated 28 per cent salary increases made during the past three years, the University's OOE funding increased by 30 per cent during the same period, he said.
"Few states can equal that record," Dokes said.
Construction fund requests granted in full by the legislature included $1.7 million for
See MONEY page 2
Film medium stilted in beginning, never grew up,director says
By PEGGI BASS
Staff Writer
The film medium was "thrilled in its adolescence." savs director Peter Watkins.
Watkins a political film maker, said yesterday that a conscious desire to entertain had narrowed the use of cinema.
Watkins, 41, was invited to the University of Kansas by the departments of English, speech and drama and history, and will be here until April 20th. The group will be given a series of films by SUA.
"I don't know why the cinema is the only art expected to only entertain," he said.
"That's why the cinema stopped growing 30 years ago."
HE SAID YESTERDAY that he organized six trips to the United States partly for
"I learn a great deal," he said. "I think it's very urgent to do a running check on the media. They affect us in an enormous way." *Looking at Watkins, most films are too*
According to Watkins, most films are too artificial and are synthetic experiences.
"Very seldom does a film have any reciprocal meaning because the public is looking at something totally contrived with professionalism," he said.
"But then, the cinema has always been shocked by honey," he added with a said
"HE IS THE MOST Gifted, as well as most dedicated and serious, of current film history."
Watkins, who says his films aren't entertainment-oriented, began his career in the late 1950's with three short antiwar war films, with an amateur casts and financed himself.
Edward Ruhe, professor of English and coordinator of Wakiki's schedule, said that
"And his usual formula-simulated newsreel-documentary with a fantastic or futuristic element—has produced some of the most engaging and powerful films of the past decade."
Watkins said that he dealt with contemporary problems such as nuclear war and political manipulation through the mass media which are subjects of controversy because of public reaction against them.
He said he usually works with a 'mature of basic preparation and improvisation' and uses amateur casts because he says he has worked to make a lace the believability of the films.
BBC, which owns the release rights to the film, agreed to make it available for theatrical release but still won't allow it to go anywhere in any way in the world. Watkins said.
"The government makes it clear all the time what it doesn't want," he said. "But there are some uncomfortable questions that must be asked."
one of his films, "The War Game," was
based on a British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC).
The film deals with the results of a thermonuclear attack on Britain and the United States.
Watkins said he had been hurt and angered by the BRC and he found it unacceptable.
"There were a lot of bad feelings toward me because I'd done the unthinkable," he said. "England is a wasteland now. I have no intention to go back there."
He said he left Britain soon after the banning of "The War Game" for the Scandinavian countries, where he has been for the past three years.
**WATKINS'** FILMS have sparked controversy in most places where they have been shown. SUA will **show** tonight at 7:30 **tonight** in Woodruff Auditorium.
"The Gladiators," a severe comment on the present and a speculation of the future, won the Golden Asteroid award at the Golden Festival of Science Fiction Film in 1968.
"Culoden," called by some critics as working first "professional" film, has a kind of shock.
Other films to be shown are: "Privilege", an allegory of the mass media's attempts to divert attention from what Waltkins calls "the War Game" (also on Wednesday; "Fallan" (The Trap), which deals with problems arising from the peaceful use of nuclear power, on April 20; "Edward Vadim," a biography of the Norwegian painter, April 21.
Watkins will be appearing after most of these showings.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Film maker Peter Watkins says today's films are too artificial