Vol. 86 No. 61
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 19,1975
Faculty increase salaries weighed
Staff Writer
By SHERI BALDWIN
TOPEKA- The possibility of a "trade off" between an increase in the number of faculty members and a faculty salary increase at the University of Kansas was raised once again yesterday at the governmental budget hearings on legislative requests.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett and James W. Bibb, director of the state budget division, heard budget restoration requests for fiscal year 1977 from KU administrators including Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Del Shanker, vice chancellor for business affairs.
KU's total requests were $61.16 million.
Bibb recommended $64.36 million. The KU Medical Center's requests were $72.71 million and Bibb recommended $72.71 million.
BIBB ASKED. "If you had your druthrens, would you rather have the 10 per cent unclassified position (faculty) salary increase or the increase in faculty positions?"
Dykes said, "We would rather give up new program proposals that do not improve the quality of our jobs."
The chancellor made restoration requests for all of KU's budget proposals, basing most of his arguments on rising enrollments and soaring inflation.
Dykes said the 1:15 faculty-student ratio was the minimum for a teaching staff that would be expected to accommodate the needs of extra students.
Bibb had recommended KU's request of a 10 per cent merit salary increase in unclassified position salaries. However, Bibb increased the faculty-student ratio from 1:15 to 1:20, a proposal that would mean fewer faculty positions.
BENNETT HAD mentioned a possible
replacement for the positions and
positions when he spoke at KU Oct. 1.
Plant director quitting soon
Harry Buchholz, director of physical
and yesterday that he would soon
him his phone.
Buchholz declined to comment on his reasons for quitting, or his plans, until he could meet with Chancellor Archie Dykes sometime this week.
Buchholz said he had been trying to arrange a meeting with Dykes since
Dykes said he had known for quite some time that Buchholz was leaving but didn't. "He wasn't there."
A Kansas City, Mo., man, Rodger E. Owke, was appointed Friday as director of facilities operations at the University. Until his appointment, that position didn't exist.
Bohscholz said he didn't know whether Oracle would take over his responsibilities on the project.
Dykes said, "Since 1972, the higher education price index has consistently exceeded the increases in other operating expenses (OE)."
KU requested a 12 per cent OOE increase of $1,000.81 bids recommended a 5 per cent increase.
SHAKENL SAID, "The budget division's OOE recommendations cause us to fall behind."
Increases in the cost of supplies and equipment have outgained increases in OEE appropriations over the past several years, Shankel said. The 1975 Kansas Legislature appropriated a 15 per cent OE increase to help KU recover from a period of several years when no increase in OEE increases were authorized, he said.
Dykes said the 12 per cent requested OEE increase would do no more than enable KU to hold its own. He also said improved professions and other programs were greater, more OEE funds.
He requested that the shrinkage squeeze be made in cent for the application and unclassified sales.
Shrinkage is a figure representing the amount of money not used when positions remain vacant because there are no reasons. When a high shrinkage rate is set, the number of authorized positions that must be kept constant will be lower, and positions must be kept vendant lengths.
Shankel said that it took KU from two to six weeks to fill a position that had been vacated because of affirmative action processes and a time period necessary for the job to be released from the governor's job freeze.
"It always takes a little longer than we would like," he said.
Dykes said KU was trying to anticipate vacancies, especially in the physical plant, so that temporary help could be scheduled to relieve any shortage problems.
Dykes said the elimination of seasonal salaries from the physical plant should be reevaluated. He expressed concern for the inadequate physical plant operation present, time.
Nitcher said that the practice of hiring employees to add to the grounds crew during summer months and the hiring of part-time student help to supplement custodial crews had been a program that KU relied upon for some 20 years.
SHANKEL SAID that a proposed $200,000 reduction in seasonal services would result in fewer resources for building maintenance and service and maintenance of grounds.
Dunne Acker, president of Kansas State University, made his strongest appeal for $412,000 in operational funds for the K-State physical plant.
"The inflationary cost increases and the reduction by the budget division ... combine to present an almost impossible management of the physical plant." Acker said.
See Budget page eight
Budaet face-off
Gov. Robert F. Bennett and Chancellor Archive R. Dykes face-off during yesterday's budget hearings in Topeka
Trash code tentatively approved
By BRUCESPENCE
First reading of a new sanitation ordinance that outlines new procedures for the packaging of trash was approved last night by the Lawrence City Commission.
Wildgen listed the following changes:
The proposed packaging ordinance doesn't vary a great deal from the ordinance now in effect, Assistant City Manager Mike Wilden said.
- MAXIMUM WEIGHT of containers is reduced from 75 pounds to 65 pounds
exceed 18 inches in diameter and five feet in length or a 65-cound weight limit.
- Containers must be placed within six feet of an alley or curb.
-Containers such as paper bags and cardboard boxes can't be used as trash
— Branches must be bundled but can't
—Newspapers and periodicals must be bundled but can't exceed 12 inches in height and cardboard boxes must be collapsed and bundled or placed in a container.
—Trash receptacles must be moved by the day after they are emptied.
—Accumulation of trash and debris in vards is prohibited.
After Mayor Barley Clark asked about enforcement, City Manager Buford Watson said that drivers of the trash trucks would tag the receptacles of violators. Watson said that, while it is the responsibility time of the violation, but if the violations continued, the trash wouldn't be picked up.
Wilden said that the penalties for violation of the proposed ordinance would remain the same as in the present ordinance.
Sanitation supervisors would then be notified by the drivers, he said, and the violators would be notified why the trash wasn't picked up.
WATSON SAID that if problems with consistent violations arose, the penalties might have to be used. He stressed, however, that the main method of enforcement would be talking with the violators.
KU delays decision on disruption
The decision on whether charges will be brought against protesters who disrupted a speech by William Shockley last Thursday has been delayed because University administrators have been concerned with the shooting of an incarcerator Archie R. Dykes said yesterday.
The decision will be made by the end of this week, he said.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs; Dion Aderson, dean of men; Caryl Smith, acting dean of women; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Mike Davis, University general counsel and he will make the decision. Dykes said.
IN A TELEGRAM to Dykes yesterday, Shockley urged that disciplinary action against the protesters be “tempered” and he receive an opportunity to plead RKI.
m - respect to disciplinary decisions
n - request for disapparition. I urge you to
consider my diagnosis.
w - wait, is that wrong?
those you express can induce the form of paramata that led to the division."
"I refer you to my remarks in the Daily
Kansan and the Lawrence Journal-World.
"IBELIEVE that you are responding to a form of humanitarianism gone berserk on the part of your advisers which has distorted my scientific contributions to reducing the environment-heredity uncertainty. Otherwise, I do not see why you stated that my position was 'lacking scientific credibility.'
"I request an opportunity to present my scientific reasoning to a technically-qualified, academic audience at the University of Kansas. I also request that any punishment of the disruptors be tempered by these considerations and possibly be delayed until the validity of my diagnosis is approuished.
"As I have stated, I believe that the disruptions were the victims of a national egalitarian threat that dwarfs Watergate in its threat to the future of our nation. My
proposal is intended to replace such lies by objective realities."
Referring to Shockley's request to return to KU, Dykes said, "Mr. Shockley had the same right as anyone else to the privileges of free speech at this University, and he would be welcome because of this principle."
He said that Shockley's desire for a tempered punishment for the protesters wouldn't affect the administration's decision.
"I don't know what measures will be needed to ensure public security couldn't detect any laws broken."
Bailour has said that the protesters could possibly be charged with a violation of Section C. paragraph one of the Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities.
SHOCKLEY, an advocate of the theory that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intelligence, was ousted by about 30 years ago when in which he was giving a speech Thursday.
City Commissioner Donald Bins objected to a clause that allowed someone to be sentenced up to 30 days for using a cardboard box as a trash receptacle.
"That's pretty rough just for using a cardboard box for trash," he said.
Watson pointed out that such a penalty was standard for other such ordinances in other cities and that the judge wouldn't necessarily have to sentence a violator to
Watson said that the main problem now was simply enforcing compliance with the laws.
Wilden said that the city was in the process of working out a method for inquiries. "The guidance guidelines would be; information on the trash guidelines would be mailed out with water bills, he said, which would cover 4,000 persons, but not everyone, in the city.
Bimns raised the matter of the possible jail fine for using cardboard trash receptacles several more times during the discussion.
"I still don't like that fine," he said
COMMISSIONER Marnie Argeringer
did, "Bilms, if they go for you that, PII put in
the document," she said.
A vote was taken, and the first reading passed unanimously.
The commission also discussed changing the current trash routes. The new system, which Watson said might be in effect by Dec. 1, will retain twice-a-week collection on a six-day work schedule, but will crews every two weeks to different routes.
Once a city budget is passed, the city must have approval from the appeals board on any requests for increases of budget expenditures.
Watson said that information on proposed sanitation wages and rates would be given to the city commission as it became available.
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Russian poet Evgeng Vinokurov (left) relaxes in his room in Templin Hall while his companion and translator Valentín
Poetic visit
Kotkin, the Secretary-General of the Soviet Writer's Union 's Foreign Commission outlines details of the Russians' stay at KU.
Poet sees little censoring
Bv.JIM BATES
Staff Writer
Although pornography and works favoring war are illegal in the Soviet Union, there is no other censorship, Russian Poet Evveny Vinokurov said yesterday.
Speaking through a translator, Peter Alkan, assistant instructor of Slavic Language and Literature, Vivkourov and svakov translated the poet poet poet and publication was the editor.
Vinokurov and Valentin Kotkin, the Secretary-General of the Soviet Writer's Union's Foreign Commission, will be at the University until Nov. 28. Most of their visit will be spent talking to Slavic classes and holding seminars on Russian poetry.
THIS IS Vinokurov's first visit to the United States. He said that, since he had only been here a few days, it was too early to really put his impressions into wrbs. He did say, however, that any surprises he had had been pleasant ones.
Vinokurov said that, although a poet shouldn't cut himself off from the world of politics and society, he didn't have anything to say about politics.
Kottkin said one thing he'd been impressed with was the seriousness and dedication to him. He also was impressed by Russian drama class that was discussing Checho's "Three Sisters," he said, he was impressed with the way the students had concentrated and with the astute comments
Vinokurvo said he, too, had noticed this and said American students were more like them. "We didn't have to teach it."
would be. The world-wide similarities between poets always surprised him.
Living in Templin makes him feel like a student again, Vinokurov then. He's lived abroad for 18 years.
Kotkin said he rather liked staying in Templin. Both he and Vinokurov were in World War II and living in the residence hall brought back some old memories.
VINOKUOK and Kotkin are staying at Templin Hall, which wouldn't be the first place most people would expect Russian visitors to stay. Both Russians said, however, that they didn't mind their accommodations.
He said that if there was more interest in poetry in the Soviet Union, it might be attributed to the Russian language. Russian is very suitable to poetry, he said.
Vinokurov, who graduated from an institute and teaches there, said the institute didn't really try to teach writing. Writing talent can't be handed out in a seminar, he
POETRY HINT a profession in the Soviet Union, Vinokurov said. Poets who have had a work published can apply for admission to a writing institute and get five years of training in writing and humanities, he said, but their dioloma is for literature.
Vinokurov said he didn't have any statistics on how the number of poets in the Soviet Union compared to the number of poets in America. But, he said, there are many people who write and poetry in Russia, and it is hard to say about all Russians love and read poetry.
All Soviet poets aren't graduates of the institute and all institute graduates don't become poets, he said. Some poets have degrees in engineering, Vinokurov said, and some graduates of the institute go on to do something else.
said, all the institute tries to do is polish a writer's talent.
Vinokurov said Russians poets weren't so concerned with how their works sold as American poets were. He said Russian poets received royalties on how many copies of their books were printed rather than on how many were sold.
HE SAID, however, that poets did, of course, naval attention to their popularity.
Vinokurov said his works had sold more than 1.5 million copies, which was comparable to the sales of other popular Russian poets.
Kotlin, unlike Vinokurov, speaks English, and has translated two dozen books by English, South African and Australian authors into Russian. He is now looking at a number of possible American books to bring them James Dickey's "Deliverance."
Kotkin asked that Aikman do the translating during the interview. He said that although he spoke English, he didn't know how to speak American English.
Kotkin and Vinokurov said they had watched some television during their Lawrence visit. They said, for example, they had watched "Cher" over the weekend.
Vinokurov said he thought Cher was a woman like any other.