THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No. 91
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 20, 1976
Pipe smoking growing popular among students
See page 6
Pay raise rests with subcommittee
By SHERI BALDWIN
Budget hearings for the Board of Regents' schools ended yesterday.
TOPEKA—The fate of the proposed 10 per cent merit salary increase for faculty members will now be determined by House Ways and Means subcommittee deliberations, some legislators said this week.
John Carlin, D-Smolan and House minority floor leader, said yesterday, "I wouldn't envision it at 10 per cent. but I will win." Good chance it will be more than 5 per cent.
Carlin said committee members weren't necessarily going to agree with House Speaker Dane "Pete" McGill and Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park and House Wayls Committee chairman, on their alternative proposal of a 5 per cent increase.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said legislators were independent minded people and wouldn't be dictated to by any chairman.
Senate President Ross Doyen, R-
Coronidae and Senate opinion was split
by a vote to hold the impeachment.
Doyen said most Senators at the 10 per cent hike were arguing that an 8 per cent hike would give the Board of Regents more room to capitalize increase over the past three years.
This year's request for a 10 per cent pay hike is the third in a three-year Regent's plan to help KU catch up with faculty institutions considered to be in KU's peer group.
Doyen used a figure of $1,000 to demonstrate that two 10 per cent increases would yield $1,100 the first year, then $1,210 the next year. A third 10 per cent increase yields $1,313, over what a cumulative 30 per cent increase would have been.
For 1974-75, KU ranked 21 out of 23 in professor salaries for publicly supported members of the Association of American Universities.
An 8 per cent increase would be more in
line with it, because it would yield
11.20 %, 9.50 %, 7.60 %.
Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, said the crucial cuts for KU's 10 per cent request would be made in the House Ways and Means Committee.
"It'll be hard to restore it when it comes to the Senate." Booth said.
Booth said Doyen was underestimating positive feeling toward the 10 per cent hike. “He’s supposed to be more pessimistic than I am, He’s the president.”
Sen. Donn J. Everett, R-Manhattan, said there would be an effort to compromise with the House somewhere between 5 and 10 per cent.
Dykes also said a House-Senate compromise would probably be the most sensible.
Everett charged that McGill's 5 per cent cut was a definite conflict with his support of a 17-18 per cent increase for the tuition grant program for private schools.
The Speaker is from Winfield where, South of Boston, he vehemently opposed the 10 per cent hike. Then he turns around and in effect, by benign neglect, approves the tuition grant.
Everett said he was opposed to tuition grant programs because they were a way for the state to aid private schools by granting tuition to students.
Victoru announcement
McGill said Southwestern didn't benefit from the tuition grant program, the students did. He said he had recommended a freeze on the present level of tuition grant funding so that no increase would be made before year 2 without a revaluation of the situation.
The five options were prepared by the House research department and released in a House leadership policy meeting Feb. 12. The options were given to House committee chairmen and vice chairmen for consideration.
Regent Glee Smith, Larned, said five options to the 10 per cent hire that would produce hikes averaging from 5.6 to 7 per cent were undesirable.
"A decrease in professor-level salaries is surely what we're not asking for," Smith said.
Vox Populares presidential candidate Tedde Tashkeff and her running mate Steve Owens keep their reactions to incoming vote tabulations low key, while campaign manager
Another option considered was an all-
faculty pay increase and not a merit
incentive. The plan would be for a
percentage of the total salary.
Smith said the options were undesirable because percentage hikes decreased for professor-level faculty members, similar to a progressive tax system. Under the proposal, the more a faculty member made, the less his salary would increase.
Mike Pettit announces Tashaeff and Owens the winners. The candidates and campaign workers were at a party last night in the Delta Uplaison fraternity when the an-
Tasheff, Owens snare win
By the Kansan News Staff
Teddy Tasheff scored a decisive victory teddy over Dave Sainiro in the race for the championship.
Tasheff and the new vice president, Steve
Students endorse satellite union
By the Kansan News Staff
Students endorsed a $3 million satellite
union, 2,450 to 907, in the past two days'
work.
The referendum called for a 40,000-
square-meter satellite union to be constructed
from the ground up.
The referendum asks the Memorial Corporation Board of Directors to issue revenue bonds to finance the construction. The bonds would be backed by a maximum student fee of $7.50 a semester and $2.50 a semester, for no more than 30 years.
The referendum said the satellite union should include food services, a bookstore, check casing facilities, lounge, a study area and general meeting rooms.
FRANK BURGE, director of the Kansas
FRANK, said the Memorial Corporate
Burgeon's office is seeking a
"Our task will be to match the financial
resources available in an effort to respond to a significant "vote" note he said
Both candidates for student body president supported the satellite union in
Teddie Taussleh, student body president,
said she was pleased with the outcome.
Burge was especially pleased by the outcome because a similar proposal had been given.
THE COST OF A satellite union has increased a million since the proposal was first defended.
"The Memorial Corporation Board of Directors will do everything possible to provide a facility that will perform the services the students have repeatedly said are needed in that part of the campus," he said.
The Student Senate Services Committee, which studied the proposal, recommended it.
The committee found that Wesco Terrace was the only major food service close to Murphy Hall, Summerfield Hall, Robinson Gymnasium, Allen Field House, Learned Hall and the new law school building.
Student fee increases for the union usually must be approved by the Senate, the Memorial Corporation Board and the Kansas Board of Recents.
There are also many residence halls, fraternities and sororities in the west campus area not conveniently served by the campus Kansas Union, the committee found.
Sacchar Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the senior men's honor society, published 3,000 leaflets supporting the satellite union, and founded University Residence Halls printed 4,000.
Burge said, "I presume the board of directors of the memorial corporation will accept this nomination."
Owens, received 1,853 votes to 1,344 votes for Shapiro and his running mate, Mark
Votes were cast Wednesday and yesterday.
The proposal to build a satellite union near Allen Field House passed by an even majority.
Tasheff and Owens arrived at the Kansas Union shortly after midnight and were besieged by well-wishers. Tasheff is KU's first woman president.
About the win, she said, "It's an honor to be president."
Owens said, "I'm very honored and eagerly anticipate getting to work."
TASHEFF ATTRIBUTED her successful campaign to "platform and experience."
"The platform displayed a competent device of research and knowledge," she said.
Shapiro, who stayed at the Sigma Chi fraternity, said of his loss, "I really don't know what to attribute it to. By no means think we were going to lose by 500 votes.
Tashef took her first week in office was filled with a lot of meetings with industry leaders and politicians.
"Wemade a lot of friends and met a lot of new neon."
Shapiro said be thought the satellite union issue caused a large voter turnout and said,
"I think Tedde worked hard to get the off-campus vote."
He said he wasn't sure whether he woulu run for a Senate holdover seat. He said he probably wouldn't run for student body president next year.
VOTES WERE BEING counted into the early morning hours for several schools and libraries.
However, it was determined by Bruce Woner, election committee chairman, that votes for junior class officers, plus graduate candidates should be tabulated officially until sometime Friday.
Woner said there weren't enough people to tabulate those ballots. He said some persons had been in the Kansas Room of the North Carolina State Department's nights straight, and "they need some sleep."
Woner apologized for the delay and said, "All I can say to those who haven't gotten returns yet, and who have stayed up late, that I'm damn sorry. I realize they worked hard in their campaign and have a right to know."
The total number of votes cast in the election Wednesday and yesterday was 7,206.
WONER ATTRIBUTED the large turnout to more polling places and longer hours at the polls.
Tasheff XV Populares coalition swept to victory in many school elections. The
coalition won the majority of seats in the School of Fine Arts, School of Journalism and the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
The coalition also won the four sophomore class offices.
Tasheff was at the Union for about 45 minutes early this morning, finally leaving to return to a party at the Delta Upsion fraternity. She was wearing a pants suit with a large campaign button pinched to the front of her knit pullover sweater. Owens also was dressed casually, with overalls and hiking boots.
OWENS SAID THAT he had to take a
today's best tinted was going back
to the party.
The margin of victory, Tasheff said,
surprise her.
"We expected it to be closer than it was," she said. "But we're glial it was as decisive as it would."
She said that she would organize a Senate retreat for this weekend to help them.
"We're hoping for a good turnout," she said. "We're hoping to meet them (new senators) and fill them in on the Student Senate."
A total of 1,629 were cast yesterday,
to add to Wednesday's total of 1,770.
See page 7 for election results.
Amateur, professional sports forecast for colleges
(Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series examining the direction college sports are taking in the face of financial crises at small and large universities across the nation, including the University of Kanaa.
By KELLY SCOTT
In 1974, some Fordham students began to play organized football again. There were no scholarship players, and other students coached the team. At first they played intramurals, but they began to get
The Fordham University football team was disbanded five years ago because Fordham's athletic department couldn't afford coaching salaries, traveling expenses or new equipment.
Fordham's phenomenon is occurring several places in the country. Old athletic programs that crumpled under the weight of big time expenses are often not well known, and their mittled, but they are as popular as they ever were.
So they wanted to offer other schools. It seemed logical that they contact schools in their former hometowns.
A DIFFERENT football program was born.
This approach may be the only way for smaller schools to find their way out of economic disaster. The solution is through a new
It reflects the belief that putting money into college sports through commercialism is treating the symptoms of a Fick system, but ignoring a terminal disease.
"The thing about athletic directors being in financial difficulty." Weise said, "is that they can deal with it. It's a challenge."
These colleges have found they had to go through the death and relurban of a sports program to achieve their goals.
THE COST OF operating a college program is a case of each expenditure leading to another, Tom Weiss, associate professor of economics and a co-ordinator for Athletic Association board, said Wednesday.
Weiss said he once introduced a motion at an Athletic board meeting that all of the KU coaches stay within their budgets that year. After a long discussion, the motion failed.
As college sports are now, Weiss said, a move to semiprofessionalism would be the next logical step.
the director of their Norman Yetman, associate professor of American studies, said he thought colleges should become organized, semipro leagues for the professional sports leagues.
"I THINK WE ought to face up to the fact that sports aren't played by the student." Weiss said.
"Let's out out the hypocrisy," he said. "We have to realize that we're playing with professionalism."
Vetman is writing a book about sports in America.
A college player under scholarship to a school gets the cost of his room. board, tuition and a small
spending allowance (for laundry) for as long as he's eligible to play, according to Yetman.
THE ONLY difference between college and professional player, Vetan said, is that the pros get more money and don't have to take time from practice to study to remain academically elibil.
When the player decided he wanted to join a professional team, he said, that club would reimburse the school for the training the player received in college.
Vetman said he thought colleges should become minor league systems for each professional sport.
A player would sign a contract to play for a certain school, Yetman said. He wouldn't be forced to go to classes, and there would be no grade requirement to play.
THIS IS SEMILAR to professional baseball clubs investing money in their farm systems to train their players.
Both Yetman and Weiss said if college sports continue at the expense they were presently operating under, a semi-pro status would be more realistic.
However, they said they would prefer athletic programs that provided just facilities for the athletes.
Weins said he thought an athletic program that everyone could share was his interpretation of it.
WHEATHER COLLEGE sports should be considered pro or amateur had been a long-debated stance.
Making college sports more accessible to the non-scholarship player who just wants to play is a theory often associated with Jack Scott, author of the book "The Athletic Revolution" and former basketball coach.
Scoffs says that amateur athletes, which college sports technically are, are valuable because they can make a difference.
The image of the college player as an entertainer he draws crowds to games is inconsistent. Scott says, "I don't."
THIS SEPARATION is seen at Louisiana State University. The LSU athletic corporation loaned the
Opposition from alumni rather than the failure of its innovation led to his dismissal from the job one year later.
For financial reasons, a college athletic program that directly involves students must be connected to
SCOTT TRIED to put theory into practice as athletic director at Ohio. He opened teams to everyone, cut coaches' salaries and reduced his teams' travel.
Today, with more schools separating their athletic corporations from general university administration, there appears to be little chance for such programs, because athletic corporations don't have to answer to students, faculty or to chancellors.
university about $400,000 between 1958 and 1972 for a new building.
Weiss said he suggested at one KU Athletic Corporation board meeting that the Athletic corporation turn its $7,000 in 1975 profit to the Chan-
gers and sell it to spend it on. The motion wasn't even seconded.
Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, said he thought there was a need for more recreational facilities for students. But, he thought a proportion of student activity fees should be spent for new
PROTESTORS AGAINST commercialism in college athletics say change them: make college athletics a sport more students can play. Spend less money doing it, and enjoy the game whether you win.
But if college athletics persist as huge, money-grubbing monsters, they say, drop the double standard and make it a legitimate professional enterprise.
At KU, the sentiment in favor of student recreation rather than "big business" college athletics was one force behind the Student Senate's refusal to continue to pay $147,000 in student activity fees to the Athletic Corporation each year. Yet UKU teams as we know them has never been greater.
The future of intercollegiate athletics—as far as the University of Kansas is concerned—remains