THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.86
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 13, 1976
Bennett gives answers about liquor, abortion See story, page 8
KU salaries rate poorly
Bv SHERI RALDWIN
Staff Writer
All peer groups considered, the University of Kansas ranks generally third rank in average faculty rank. The low rank in salary flexibility which keeps KU from actively recruiting top faculty members and considering difficult, say University administrators.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chairperson for academic affairs, said yesterday, "We can get top people but it would mean next year someone must take a loss. Those taking that loss in pay are already at the bottom of our peer group comparisons."
Compounding KU's difficulties, full funding of the third and final year of a program to upgrade faculty salaries at Board of Regent institutions appears to have made of passing after a House Representation policy meeting in Topeka yesterday.
FIVE OPTIONS that would produce faculty pay increases averaging from 5.8 to 7 per cent were given to House committee chairmen and vice chairmen for consideration of Gov. Robert F. Bennett's recommended 10 per cent increase.
The first option proposed an 8 per cent raise for faculty receiving less than $15,000; 7 per cent for $15,000-$20,000; 6 per cent for $20,000-$30,000; and 6 per cent for those receiving $23,000 or more.
The second option was an increase of 3.5
per cent plus $800 per faculty member, an
addition of 12.5% for faculty members.
The third option would provide an 8 per cent pay increase for faculty paid less than the base salary.
This chart compares KU with the 23 public supported
masters this year. Students in Master's universities for
1954, 1956, 1957 and 1958 are displayed.
Places given are for those who can
cent for $20,000-$25,000; and 2 per cent more than
$25,000.
EMBERS
ROFFISOR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
INSTRUCTOR
Pennsylvania 17,292 16,394 15,356 11,838
Rhode Island 20,121 19,284 16,394 11,838
North Carolina 16,273 16,097 15,356 11,838
Michigan 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Minnesota 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Illinois (U. bann) 23,182 16,097 14,975 11,298
Indiana (U. bann) 23,182 16,097 14,975 11,298
Maryland 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
New York 23,182 16,097 14,975 11,298
Missouri 23,182 16,097 14,975 11,298
Michigan State 23,171 16,097 14,975 11,298
Wisconsin 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Ohio State 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Texas 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Iowa 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Missoula 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Louisiana 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
 Iowa City 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Missoula 22,579 16,113 15,356 11,838
Oregon 20,658 16,789 15,356 10,743
Oregon 20,658 16,789 15,356 10,743
increase to those receiving more than $25,000. That is an average of 8.7.
THE FOURTH OPTION was a 5 per cent increase plus $300 per faculty member, an offer of up to $100 per faculty member.
KU will substantiate the 10 per cent salary hike and other budget items before the State House Ways and Means Committee Feb. 18.
KU is grouped with publicly supported members of the Association of American
The fifth option would give 7.5 per cent more to faculty members paid less than the minimum cost.
Staff Writer
Today sets double trouble
Bv PAUL SHERBO
Someone is going to have a surprise quiz today.
And everyone will face disaster upon unseen disaster. Today is Friday the Third.
At least one computer science student will drop his book of 400 cards in the wind.
It's all, of course, based on scientific fact. In Scandinavian myth, the god of evil, Loki, joined 12 other gods at a feast where he was uninvited and came to cause trouble.
At least one girl will spill grape juice all over her yellow dress.
But the number isn't the only bad thing going today.
The Egyptians knew that there were 12 steps on earth and that the 13th was the step into the nest.
In the Middle Ages, criminals were exorcised on Friday, earning the name 'hangman'.
THE NORSE GODDESS Feya, known as a witch, gave her name to this day for witchcraft.
Teamed up together, Friday and 13 bode ill for the unwary.
One of you will lose an important term paper.
One of you will scratch your favorite record.
The information center will get a question it can't answer.
The math department will make a mistake.
The buses will run late
The buses will run day.
Someone will drop a six-pack of Heinekein on the sidewalk.
Many of you will eat residence hall food. You will not WILKER will get another assignment like this.
There are, fortunately, some time-tested remedies for the situation. Rabbit's feet and lucky pennies have been used to combat Friday the Thirteenth.
Avoiding black cats, ladders and spilled salt is highly recommended.
Or there's the ultimate remedy. Stay home in bed, pull up the covers, don't answer the phone and wait for Valentine's Day.
Staff photo by DAVE HAUBER
Good luck.
Polished act
Lora Porter works on a new pair of shoes while Jim Dwyer relaxes on his noon hour. Forken knurches the leather pumps with polishes on his fingers to spread the wax more effusively.
Universities, a group of 23 schools considered KU's peer group. Within the 23 schools, there are two other peer groups considered, 14 schools in the Midwest and nine schools that are nonland-grant state universities.
Land-grant institutions include those schools with programs such as agriculture, veterinary medicine, agronomy, home economics and industrial engineering, Hutchison said. K-State is a land-grant school.
PROFESSOR SALARIES at KU average
$20,905, 32 per cent less than Pennsylvania's
$27,902. KU ranks third to the in the 23-
ninth tier and second to last in the
two, pep. per cent.
Hutchison said the professor's salary range at KU was from about $30,000-$25,000 to $16,000-$17,000. He said a dozen or fewer professors fell in each category, and that most were paid a sum near the average figure.
Associate professor salaries average
$15,789.22 per cent less than Pennsylvania's
$19,304. Third to last in the 23-school group
and again next to last in the other peer groups.
The range at KU for an associate
criminal minimum of 1000 and
public minimum of 500. Hutchison
"AGAIN, MOST everyone gets close to the same." he said.
Assistant professor salaries average $13,907, 19 per cent less than $15,564 at Pennsylvania. KU here ranks last in each peer group category.
Hutchison said assistant professor
salaries ranges from $17,000 to $16,000 to
be paid.
Staff photo
Instructor salaries range from $12,000 to $9,000. Hutchison said.
The lower salary ranges in each group could be because the faculty member is new, hasn't been considered productive or understaffed, has not command in the competitive market, he said.
Instructor pay averages $10,202, 17 per cent less than $11,939 at Pennsylvania. Ranked 19 out of 21 (California reported no salary average), KU is 11th in the 14-school Midwestern peer group and last in the nonland-tran group.
See SALARIES page 3
Harmonic interlude
Warm temperatures, sweet radio sounds and a tasty harmonica occupy the attention of Geary Tallout, 1305 Connecticut, who
entertained passers-by yesterday from a wooded area west or Green Hull. Mid temperatures are expected to continue today.
Crime rate among women soars
Staff Writer.
Bv JOHN FULLER
Crisis rates for women have soared in the past 15 years. Magazine covers, television news and the front pages of newspapers regularly drive home the point.
Lynette Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore are now in prison for their assassination attempts on President Ford and the 'trial of the century' is now determining whether Patty Heart really wanted to rob a bank or was brainwashed into doing it.
Statistics compiled by the FBI in its Uniform Crime Report of 1973 show that the exploits of the women grabbing the headlines are the tin of an iceberg.
Although arrests of men still outnumber
those of women by six to one, the gap has narrowed; in 1965 the ratio was nine to one. If women's crime rates keep increasing as dramatically as they have in the years covered by the crime report (1960-1975), they will soon catch men.
In the report, the percentage of women arrested for murder rose 103 per cent compared to 141 per cent for men. The women were similar for aggravated 08551.
IN ALL SERIOUS crimes but murder, rape and aggravated assault, women led men in the percentage of increase of persons arrested.
In the other crimes the percentage
contrasted dramatically. The percentage of
women arrested for robbery rose 287 per cent compared to 160 per cent for men; for burglary it was 193 per cent to 76 per cent; for larceny it was 341 per cent to 84 per cent; and for fraud it was 231 per cent to 50 per cent.
Arrests of women for narcotics charges sky-rocketed 1,027 per cent, compared to 499 in 2013.
ALONG WITH the increases in arrests came corresponding increases in the number of women inmates in federal penitentiaries and state prisons. The number of men incarcerated by the federal prison rose 41 per cent from 1909 to 1974, bringing the total to about 15,000.
William Arnold, associate professor of
New owner plans spit and polish for town's only shoeshine stand
Bv DAVE HAUBER
Lora Porter curled a filterless cigarette in his polish-stained fingers. He turned aside and spit a loose piece of tobacco from his lips.
Waiting is part of the shoeshine business. "If I can't do this, Iain don't do this." Porter said, just come up to four feet apart, spit out his own macheed only made three—"that's going backwards."
Here in Lawrence, the only shoeshine stand in town is a small, blue, budded carpetball. On the window of the front door, painted sign in red letters that says simply, "Shoe Shine." On the front of the building is a professionally done sign that says the
Perhaps go backwards is the best way to describe the shoeshine business these days. It's a remainder from different times—times of newspaper extras and scrappy shoeshine boys hustling to polish businessmen's shoes for a dime.
The signs represent the changes the shoeshine stand has gone through recently. Wendell Collins, new owner of the stand, said yesterday that he bought the shoeshine stand inside the shop about two months ago from John Thomas. The shoeshine stand, with its raised platform, chairs and brass baskets, was purchased and borrowed from his former employer, James Alexander. He rents the building for $40 a month, he said.
Collins said he needed publicity and public identity to build his business.
Making the stand more attractive is one of Collins's goals, so he has begun to experiment with a more dynamic style.
blistered white walls with brown enamel.
He plans to carpet the woodwork and put KU and Haskell emblems on the door with molds. He also plans to put in new carriages.
"We ain't getting rich. As a matter of fact, we've lost some since we've opened. A lot of wea'rs have been there."
Collins looked around his 10-foot by 28-foot business. A small gas heater kept the air warm. He slouched forward sleepily in his blue overalls.
Collin's said that he relied on Porter to at the shop on weekdays. He said he could only work at the shop on weekends because of his sickness. Collin attended Community Museum during the week.
"We've got some regulars come in," he said. "This is the first time this shop has been open."
Porter said that all kinds of people came into the shop for a shoeshoe; farmers, lawyers, businessmen, women and KU and Haskell students.
Porter and Collins split the profits fifty-fifty. Porter, said Some days, he said, he only makes about three dollars shining shoes and other days he makes $10 to $12.
A sign on the wall lists prices for shining everything from slippers to buckskin boots. Shoes are 75 cents and slippers (on foot) are 60 cents; but slippers (off foot) are 75 cents. Although Collins said Porter was 76, Porter said he was 71.
Porter rememberes when he shined shoes inside a hat store on the 1000 block of Massachusetts. He said there used to be a man one shoeshine stand in Lawrence.
Porter pointed to a pair of hiking boots in the window and said, "He (Collins) wants
10 for those boots. He ain't got to get $10.
Take these black ones over there. They've
written on them.
A customer, Jim Dwyer, a city employee on his lunch hour, walked into the store for a
Forter took out the appropriately stained polish and swabbed the shoes with water.
Dwyer, who has been a semiregular customer of the shop for five years, said his other shoes had just "got busted the other way" and wanted to get a good polish on his new ones.
Mostly, Dwyer said, he wanted to talk with Porter, who shined his shoes as an instructor. "He's very good," he said.
After swabbing the shoes, Porter applied the polish with his fingers, because that's cheaper than using a rag. Next came a double brushing, another coat of wax, a second brush, and another double brushing and a baffling. A coat of edge and sole dressing finished the job.
Collins said business had been "kind of picking up."
Collins said he had made a deal with the shoe repair store across the street. "We don't fix any shoes and he don't shine any." He said he bought special polish at a hardware store.
Collins said his shop also winterized shoes. Many people, he said, don't take care of their shoes and spray polish buildup eventually cracks the leather.
Porter said, "There ain't no best day,
some days you're running around and
dancing."
Collin said, "If there wasn't no shoe shop in town, everybody would have to shine on the floor."
sociology and a criminologist said yesterday that the trend reflected the condition at the Kansas Correctional Facility for Women at Lansing. Four years ago, he said, there were only 36 inmates at this prison. This year there are 83.
He said the women committed no prevalent crime to get there. Like the men in their nearby prison, women can be in jail for anything from child beating to robbery. Anything, that is, except rape. Women can't charged with the offense under Kansas law.
DOUGLAS COUNTY ATTORNEY David Berkowitz said he had noticed a rise in women's crime in Douglas County but he said he had no fixtures to document it.
"the offenses we most often prosecute women for here are bad checks and (p. 235)
He said a woman from Lawrence had recently been sent to prison for repeated offenses of petty theft. Two cases are charged with aggravated crimes by women. One woman has been charged with aggravated battery for shooting another woman, and a woman who allegedly robbed two salesmen as they came out a nightclub has been charged with
The reasons more women have turned to crime, especially violent crime, are
In 1972, Susan Brownmiller, author of a recent study of rape called "Against Our Will," said: "Some women have gotten involved in the machismo (male virility) factor and are actually trying to imitate women." She added that women can rob banks and blow up buildings so can we. As far as I conceived that's not what women's liberation is all about."
ARNOLD SAID he thought the women's movement itself had almost no effect on the men.
Sociologist Fred Adler, author of a book researching women in crime, "Sisters in crisis," wrote that the majority of women offenders she studied regarded women liberationists with distrust, suspecting them of being lesbians. This attitude is especially prevalent in New York.
She says this attitude had convinced many prison administrators and law enforcement officials that the woman's arrest was way connected with the rising crime rate.
The warden at the federal women's prison at Morgantown, W.V., says in U.S. News and World Report, "At least 60 per cent of the prisoners here are in for narcotics or some drug related crime as bank robbery. It's the drugs, not the women's ibl thing."
VET ARNOLD SAID the indirect effects of the woman's movement must be taken
See CRIME page 5