Disparities possible in operation of 2 deans offices
By LIZ LEECH
Some University of Kansas personnel are questioning operations by the offices of the dean of men and the dean of women as a result of a study by the American Association of Dysfunctional discrimination in the treatment of students.
The following questions and implications have indicated:
—That some areas of operation by the two offices were overlooked in detail is depicted by the sub-
directors. They are more needful, however.
-That some disparities in the staffing and budgeting of the offices exist.
That possible implications of the disparities may be resulting in unequal services offered to men and women; that the two offices may have overlaps and that some of those disparities and similarities may be significant.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE studying the treatment of students was part of the TIX Self-Evaluation committee that submitted its report several weeks later. The Executive Vice chancellor; Mike Davis, University general counsel; and David Robinson, former executive vice chancellor for the RU Medical Center, now vice chancellor.
Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director and chairman of the TITLE IX treatment of students subcommittee, said yesterday that the steering committee had asked for the duties and responsibilities offered after that, Waugh said, his committee was to function as a fact-finding force for the steering committee.
"We have overlooked some things and one of the things we overlooked were some budgetary and staff factors in the dean of men and dean of women's offices," Waugh conceded.
He said both offices had responded to the subcommittee's requests for listing of the services offered.
Waugh said the subcommittee, however, didn't request and neither office provided—copies or materials.
THE DEAN OF WOMEN'S office refused to submit a copy of its 1975-76 budget to the Kansan. Figures for the office were then obtained from the 1975-76 University budget in the KU Archives.
The dean of men's office submitted a copy of its budget to the Kansan.
The dean of men's office employs three full-time staff members and two full-time secretaries. The office also employs four half-time graduate assistants, two vice-president assistants, Donald Alderson, deacon of men, said.
The dean of women's office is staffed by seven full-time employees and two full-time secretaries. One graduate student works there half-time. Eight student assistants work part-time.
The total salaries of the dean of men's office full-time employees (excluding the two secretaries) and ten junior officers are:
The total for the seven dean of women is office full-
time, excluding the two full-time secre-
cretaries. 883.80
The Dean of Women's half-time graduate assistant is paid $4,800.
The four part-time student assistants in the Dean of Men's office receive a total of $3,850.
-TELEPHONE EXPENSES FOR the dean of
mrs. offees amounted to $1,464 and the Dean of
Mrs. Offees amounted to $1,464.
The eight pair 'time students assisting workers for the Dead of Women's office a total of $8,400.
The Dean of Men's office showed $6,560 was budgeted for supplies and expenses, not including the cost of cleaning.
—the total amount spent for supplies and
expenses for the dean of women's offices $117,000.
"We didn't get into that (the budget) until it was too late to make the deadline." Waunda said.
The subcommittee worked hard and spent a lot of time reviewing information, Waugh said, but there was no way to make sure it was correct.
Waugh said he didn't know whether the dean of men and women's staff and budget disparities would be a future problem because his sub-committee had never received enough information on them.
Shankel, Robinson and Davis were informed of the differences, Waugh said, and the subcommittee mentioned in its report that a closer look was needed in some areas.
"I DON'T THINK THAT anything we were looking into was earth-shattering, but it doesn't look like it."
Shanki said the reports might be sent back to the subcommittees for further study in some areas.
He said the steering committee would later make recommendations to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes
The subcommittee's reports haven't been released to the public and Shankar said he didn't know of any issues.
He said it was too early to identify the areas that needed further studying.
"There's a lot of interesting information in it (the compiled report)." Shankel said.
Waugh said, "We feel that there are probably going to be other areas that will need to receive attention again because, with the amount of work we had, it was difficult to try to get everything."
Bonnie Ritter Patton, director of the Office of Affirmative Action, said that she had received no complaints about the funding and staffing differences between her office, but that some questions had been raised.
SHE SAID THAT SERVICES available to students should be equal and, if they weren't, they would not.
Because of the difference in the deam of men's and some persons said the services provided by the office.
participated in the two offices. The dean of women's office offered information on housing, including residence halls, schoolhalls and sororities, information about human sexuality, women's security programs, women's social services, career and personal counseling, women's organizations and the Reading and Study Skills Program.
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Release of Title IX report is doubtful
A Title IX report containing guidelines to end possible sex discrimination at KU is being studied by a three-member administrative steering committee and might not be made public when it is finished.
Del Stakel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday the report and the committee's recommendations might be returned to the investigating committee. The committee will look at the reasons of discrimination to obtain additional information.
Shankel said that he and Mike Davis, University general counsel, were writing drafts of some of the reports' sections. They will probably issue a statement in the fall to suggest possible areas for improvement at RU.
The report was submitted before spring break to the steering committee. Davis, Shankel and W. Robinson, former acting executive vice chair of the steering committee, are the members of the steering committee.
The subcommittees studied treatment of students, hiring practices and admission policies.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Burge envisions planning needs for satellite union
Vol.86 No.114
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, April 1, 1976
See page 6
Copland smile
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
New York Music Critics Circle Award, grimmed widely at a panel discussion with KU faculty at Swarthmall Hall yesterday
Composer Aaron Copland, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the
Copland still 'open-eared'
By PEGGY BASS
When one hears the name "Aaron Copland," one concludes up the image of a small man with white hair, wearing a conical hat. But Aaron Copland does more than this.
The 78-year-old Copland revealed to a crowd of about 400 yesterday in Swarthout Hall that, although he is old in years, his musical vigor is as young as when he first entered the music scene in 1917 as a student of composer Rubin Goldmark.
"Music is a living art," he said, "We have broadened our notions about what music means."
Stravinsky isn't the only composer
Copland admires. He said he also had ad-
dresses by Mozart, Wagner and Sibelius.
Traffic Board's request draws Tasheff's criticism
David Del Tredici, and for the music of today.
His interest in contemporary music has led Copeland to take an active part in many associations for the promotion of American music. He has helped organize groups that emphasized Americanism in American music.
See COPLAND page 7
Iragr Stravinsky, a Russian composer whom Copland admires, did so. "And then it was" (1982).
Teddie Tasheff, student body president, yesterday sharply criticized the parking and traffic board's 1976-77 budget request and issued a statement of a parking fees fund of $496.837.
Copland is an example of an "open-ended" composer. His compositions range from ballads to balletics to one of his best-known works, *Spring.* "won a Pulitzer prize in 1945
Tasheff said the state limited how much of the fund could be spent. She said the department could spend $167,000 until the large surplus for the next fiscal budget.
By RANDY CZARLINSKY
Staff Writer
Because there is a wider availability of music, a composer should have an open mind and an "open ear" to all kinds of compositions, he said.
Tasheff said she talked with Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, who told her that the fund originated in fiscal year 1974 when permit fees increased, and the parking and traffic collection collected more money than expected.
The parking fees fund is a combination of money received from parking ticket fines
"You don't sit down and say, 'I'd like to write something.'" he said. "You have to have an idea first. Something tells your listener how much you are an instinctive feeling, not just chance."
Members of the parking and traffic board save different reactions to Taseff's fire.
Hugh Cotton, associate dean of pharmacy and board chairman, would say only that he thought the fund didn't exist. He refused to comment on Tassel's other charges.
Charles Burrows, associate comptroller,
said the fund does exist.
Steve Brown, White City senior and board member, said he had specifically asked Iml Davis, office manager of police and parking, about the existence of such a fund at Tuesday's meeting of the parking and parking committee, that the fund existed, according to Brown.
"I'm glad somebody found out something we didn't know." Brown said.
Copland said composers didn't start writing at the piano until it was shown that
Steve Chucovich, Pleasant Hill, Mo,
junior and board member, said, "This is the
Copland said this American emphasis didn't come until the jazz era of the 1900s. He said more emphasis had also been placed on the availability of all types of music.
He said that although he had a diversity of style he didn't adhere to any number of
"Anyone can turn on to any kind of music," he said.
Dykes fights possible budget cut
The bill was approved yesterday by the Kansas House of Representatives. It cut from 8 per cent to 6 per cent the amount of school boards could increase spending limits.
That reduction could have an indirect effect on higher education funding, because some legislators had previously opposed increases in salaries and other operating expenditures (OE) as high as those in the current KU budget bill.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said in night that the University was contacting legislators and alumni to lobby against a renewed possibility that the University of Kansas' 1977 budget would be reduced in the Kansas Legislature.
Cuts in the public school bill could compel those legislators to renew efforts to cut funding.
The bill was hastily proposed and approved after Gov. Robert F. Bennett vtoed a public school finance bill Tuesday that increased billion more than his recommendations.
Those levels are now an 8 per cent increase for faculty salaries and a 10 per cent increase for staff salaries.
Dykes said he was concerned about the possible effect that a reduced public school funding bill might have on KU's appropriations.
"But you'll be in trouble," he said, if the public school bill remains at its current level.
Buzzi said that if the public school spending limit were increased to 7 percent, "we would be in good shape on higher education."
According to State Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, some legislators think the reductions in public school funding should be made by more cuts in higher education funding.
Staff Writer
He said there was a trend in the House to keep the two funding bills tied together.
recommended increases 2 per cent higher for both.
Dykes said he had contacted alumni leaders and asked them to intervene as lobbists for KU. He said he was planning to send letters to alumni across Kansas to urge them to contact legislators who return to the state legislature a legislative recess planned for next week.
"There are people mad enough at this point because they're not able to compromise," he said, "that they may say 'The hell with it,' and chop it down to 5 per cent.
By JIM COBB
"And that's a far cry from what we have now."
Buzzard said Lawrence legislators had been lobbying with other legislators to persuade them to raise the public school spending rate and higher education increases at current levels.
He said that he had talked to House
"I don't think we should panic yet," Buzii said. "Sometimes things happen and they can be worked out—that's the reason to have a conference committee."
Speaker Duane S. (Pete) McGill, WRinfield, and that McGill wanted compromise measures. McGill has been a college administrator for state colleges and universities.
The higher education funding bill will be considered in conference committee after discussion.
Buzzed he expected legislators to take a "wait-andsee" attitude, until approval of the bill was reached.
She said she understood that the parking and traffic board established its budget first, then decided the cost of fees, such as parking costs and ticket fines.
"It's a tense and emotional situation," he said. "A great man of us feel very strongly."
"I would hope that some of us would be more open-minded than to make drastic cuts. We should realize the responsibility that we have."
Cotton said Tuesday night that fee increases were necessary to meet the 1976-77 parking services budget. He said several cars had been parked in his area that wouldn't be done without higher fees.
The parking and traffic budget request will go before University Council today.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said he hoped the legislature would realize that KU couldn't raise local taxes to fund raises for higher education.
first time I've heard about it. I'm not surprised, but I didn't think it was that large."
"Now that we know they have a working balance," she said, "we will want help in getting it."
Tasheff said the security and parking departments were separate. Little, if any, of the parking department's budget goes to security, she said.
"Tashef said she didn't think the council would approve the budget
The lower spending limits for the public school bill would mean increased local property taxes to fund increased costs in public education.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said, "It a fund we've always had that fee
receipts go into, but I hadn't" realized the
death was that large until the last few
days."
The security department receives its money from the University and there is usual security at the campus.
"I think there is discontent within several groups that would be affected," Tasheff said. "Handicapped persons and students in the area were distressed over the proposed increases."
"There are no justifications for increases
in the balance of the surplus being so
high."
However, Tashseff said that, during fiscal year 1974, the department spent nothing on new equipment.
Shandel said that in past years public school financing had increased more than
Residence halls aren't getting adequate service as it is, she said.
"In those years, our budget wasn't tied to theirs," he said. "I hope it won't be tied to my own."
Staff Writer
By JERRY SEIB
Budget review today for parking services
University board members will review parking services budget increases today as the school considers an expansion of its parking facilities.
Parking services has requested that its budget for next year be increased by 8 per cent. Parking officials estimate that Hugh Cotton, chairman of the parking and traffic board, plans to
The parking and traffic board has campus parking permits to meet the higher
If parking permit increases requested by the parking and traffic board are approved, the estimates show revenue from parking will be $192,771 in the academic year 1997. $172,871
Parking and traffic board member Steve Chucovich, Pleasant Hill, M., Mo., junior, estimated last night that figure would be $50 million a year's permit receipts of about $165,000.
He said the $165,000 estimate represented permit revenues that would be received at this year's prices and 1974-75 sales levels, the latest available.
Cotton said the fee increases were necessary to improve parking lot maintenance. He said funds that had been earned for parking lot improvements this year were being used in other areas of the parking services budget.
The estimates show that $59,500 of the
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Budgets and income
**Morgan Magins** for 1973-78 and 1979-77;
1978-79.
Estimin and revenue (permits and fines)
$240.60
Parking Budgets and Income for 1975-76 and 1976-77;
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| :--- | :--- |
| Fund A (incurses & flares) | $240,000 |
| Fund B (incurses & flares) | $250,000 |
| Fund C | $300,000 |
| Fund D | $300,000 |
| Total | $900,000 |
Perons
$118,771
Motors
$ 7,269
Meters
$ 7,269
Carbureators
$ 13,443
Athletic lids
$ 13,443
Machines
$ 13,443
Total
$602,718
Total expenditures
Sales and expenses
$243,008
Sales and net maintenance
$828,008
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$80,000 allocated for parking lot maintenance this year. You will cover all parts of the budget.
After the fee increases, only $1,822 of the $9,000 budgeted for maintenance will have to be covered.
Cotton said the maintenance fund was the "fudge factor" in the parking services budget, because more money was allocated to the security service to provide a reserve of revenue.
He said too much money was being taken from the fund, however, and parking lot is empty.
The budget is also being increased because of planned salary increases for employees.
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Parking services estimated revenue
BREAKDOWN OF PARKING SERVICES ESTIMATED REVENUE FOR 1977
(USD)
Type of Permit Ferry Yard Revenue Summer Yard Revenue Summer Yard Revenue Universal 78 3,750 3 60 $ 40 8 $ 140 Miami Beach 1,494 6,250 10 80 Browny Yellow 663 38,566 361 10,404 141 1,309 Brown Yellow 663 38,566 361 10,404 141 1,309 Residence Hall - Spruce Apale 1,338 29,943 653 6,219 102 818 Compass Pass (currently free) 1,338 29,943 653 6,219 102 818 Compass Pass (currently free) 1,663 6,219 1,373 1,373 109 Service 1,663 6,219 1,373 1,373 109 Hand-Hand 118 5,428 340 114 114 Service 118 5,428 340 114 114 Hand-Hand 21 185 0 0 0 0 184 Daily Field Ex. 71 185 0 0 0 0 184 Machine Ex. 81 185 0 0 0 0 184 Second Car 602 4,124 80 727 37 138
Permit Total Revenue: $123,771.
recalized totals), haven't previously been sold
TOTALS ... 7,863 ... $154,547 ... 9,276 ... $253,091 ... 646 ... $26,323
Percent Total Revenue: $128,771 ... $154,547 ... 9,276 ... $253,091 ... 646 ... $26,323