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Friday, November 21, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Bargaining unit . .
From page one
was great faculty interest in organizing a unit at this time.
But the value of the decision, she said, is that it makes formation of such a unit possible, the need arise in the future. But the value of the mechanism available to us," she said.
She said that, because the administration and the legislature had been attentive to the needs of the faculty, she expected little facility movement toward organization.
James Feldstein, director of labor relations at KU, agreed that there was no evidence of faculty desire to form a barraining unit at this time.
Feldisen said that although some schools bad run into difficulties with the collective bargaining process, he thought it was adaptable to a university situation.
Problems have arisen, he said, because the collectors bargain ruined the program.
Not all faculty members, however, think the would be benefited by collective bags.
"A bargaining unit is not appropriate to an academic situation," William Mitchell, Ph.D., wrote in *The Journal of Psychology*.
Mitchell said such bargaining was effective in labor situations, where the chief concerns were financial. That isn't the case at a university, he said.
"I don't come to work every morning for the money," he said.
Mitchell said he thought adoption of collective bargaining would spoil the present administration-faculty relationship.
"There's tension built up when you establish the two camps—Them and Us," he said.
Other faculty members have described collective bargaining as unprofessional.
According to Kathy Dugan, spokesman for the Graduate Student Council, graduate assistants would feel even less secure than students because the faculty were to form a bargaining unit.
An administration faced with a faculty union's demands might feel pressured to make cuts, she said, and graduate would be most vulnerable to those cuts.
Therefore, graduate students, too, would need to seek some form of collective education.
As it stands, KU faculty members have the ability to form a unit. The next step toward such a unit would be distribution of a petition by any organization that wished to do so.
If an organization obtained the signatures of 30 per cent of those to be included in the unit, an election would follow to decide who would represent the faculty wanted as its representative.
If no organization gathered enough signatures, however, there would be no organization gathering the data.
Griffin said the AAUP would have to decide now whether it would seek the role of bargaining representative for the KU faculty.
The collective bargaining system has already been introduced at Kansas State College at Pittsburgh. That unit's most important employee was in Shawwale County, District Court.
The unit had charged the administration and the Board of Regents with failing to "meet and confer in good faith," and had asked for a clarification ruling.
*rRB, however, sent both parties back to negotiations, leaving it up to them to decide.*
"We find it strange that the board of competent jurisdiction orders the parties to negotiate the meaning of the law, after the parties have disagreed as to its meaning." Denmark Cope, chief negotiator for the college, said recently.
The bargaining unit has appealed the PERRr rule to the district court in Topeka
The Pittsburgh faculty's problems may stem from unrealistic expectations from collective bargaining, according to Feldstein.
Case squad renders aid
The Capital Area Major Case Squad, often called M-squad, was designed to more effectively deal with major crimes that a law enforcement agency would have people handle.
At its regular monthly meeting last night, hosted in the Kansas Union by the University of Kansas Police Department, about 40 M-5d members heard George M. McCain, an attorney for the McCain office of the FBI, discuss some of the special problems facing law enforcement.
The special cases squam is activated at the request of any law enforcement agency that wants outside help, under the approval of the officer in charge of the squad.
Lueckenhoch told the M-squad members that the development of special case squaws had spread throughout the forest, and most major crimes could be handled.
Lacekhen helped in the establishment of M-squade five years ago. Law enforcement agencies in Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Wabaeunse, Pottawatomi and Shawnee counties are represented in the Topeka area M-squad.
All members of M-squad go through a special training program so that any one member is able to handle any facet of a criminal investigation.
Three detectives from KU police and parking are members of the squad.
Senate amendment frees councils to act separately
An amendment to the Senate Code that allows proposals of University Council and Faculty Council to be binding without the consent of a majority in the Senate was approved yesterday by the Senate.
Yesterday, with the help of remote
The same amendment was approved in April, but a new vote was needed because representatives of the KU Medical Center weren't present.
television and sound units, both campuses were represented and the amendment was
The amendment was designed to allow University Council and Faculty Council to take action without approval of the Senate because they lack the necessary quorum for a vote.
Under the Senate Code, a call for a count of senators isn't mandatory. If no quorum is reached, the vote will be counted.
Today: JANET LEVIN will present a slide presentation on silk screen printing on fabric at 9:30 in Spencer Auditorium, Sharon Drysdale will talk about “THE SILK STUDIO” and be available most noon in Coffee馆 in the Kansas Union. THE SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS, Sigma Delta Chi will, at 12:30 in 2018 Flint Hall.
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Tonight: THE KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will dance at 7:30 in 173 Robinson.
DAVID HOLLOWAY, bartone, and RUTH WELTHING, soprano, will perform in the University Theatre at 6 in Murphy Hall. THE FIRST KANSA CARNIVAL OF CARTOON SUPERSTARS will be shown at 7 and 9:15 in 134 Wescoe.
TOMORROW NIGHT: THE KANSAS CARNIVAL OF CAROTON SUPERSTARS will be shown at 7 and 9:15 or 3:140 Wescoe. Stephen Shawl, professor of astronomy, will speak on "THE UNIVERSE AS SEEN FROM SOUTH AMERICA" and slide slides of China at 8 in 426 Linden Hall.
SUNDAY: THE SUATABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. The SUA BRIDGE TOURNAMENT will be at 3 p.m. in the Union Music and Browsing Rooms. THE UNIVERSITY CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will perform at 3:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
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The Bible tells us there will be wars and rumors of wars. America has had seventeen pentavirus and depressions and every year a war is declared. In my opinion, all of regrouping among nations preparing for the next war, in my own life more than 100 million people have been stained by the other wars. It would be a naive prediction that wars that have now come to an end.
I offer a hundred dollar reward to anyone who can tell us why we have wars.
I offer an additional hundred dollar reward to anyone who can tell us how America's next war is to come about. Will it be internal or external? Why will We why will we be fighting? Where will we be fighting and who will our allies?
Answers to these questions will appear in next week's paper. Watch for them
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