University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 5, 1978
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Soviet writer visits through KU program
By SUSAN WOODARD
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas is America's literary gateway to the Soviet Union.
The KU Soviet writers-in-residence program is the only such program in the United States, according to Gerald Mikkelken, the program's founder.
By an informal agreement with the Soviet writer's union in Moscow, Mikkelson, associate professor of Slavic languages and culture, wrote to the KU campers in the past five years.
The writer's union pays the writers' traveling expenses from Moscow to Kansas City International airport. The University pays the writers an honorarium for their visits and pays for their accommodations here.
This week, the writers-in-residence program continued by bringing Felix Kuznetzov, a literary critic, to the campus. Kuznetzov arrived in Lawrence Monday and has been meeting informally with students who are interested in the department of Slavic languages and literatures.
YESTEDARY, KUZNETSOV spoke about contemporary Soviet literature to a group of about 50 persons in the International Room of the Kansas Union. The speech was entirely in Russian because Kuznetsov speaks no English.
Speaking through a translator after his
speech, Kumzetsov said that even during his short stay at KU, he could see that American students were interested in Soviet literature.
However, the Soviets are perhaps more interested in American literature, he said. The Soviet Union translates 10 times more American literature into Russian than America translates Russian literature into English.
Contemporary American authors such as Kurt Vonnegut jr. Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert H. Dickens, Soviet Union, according to Kursnetsov, American classics such as the works of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway are quite popular.
KUZNETSV CAME to KU from a Soviet-American writers' conference in New York City. He will now travel to California to speak at some of the universities there.
If the writer comes from or goes to any place else in the United States, the Slate
According to Mikkelsen, the Soviet writers-in-residence program will expand next year. The University will be bringing a student campus each semester, instead of each week.
The Soviet playwright Victor Rosor will be the writer-in-residence next fall. Rosor's play, "From Evening Until Midday," will be staged by the William Ingle Theatre Octet.
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Kent State disquieted by protests
KENT, Ohio (UPI) - Tear gas gas flew at Kent State University yesterday as some 25 protesters tried to storm a construction site during otherwise peaceful demonstrations on the eight anniversary of the campus shootings by the Ohio National Guard.
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The trouble came after an afternoon of folksinging and solemn speeches marking the death of four students shot down by the military Guard during an anti-war protest in 1970.
Hundreds of people were circling the campus when about 25 broke from the group and tried to push down fences at a gym construction site they want closed down because it is on the spot where the four students were killed.
Construction on the gym had been halted yesterday while a small group of faculty and students held a subdued program on the anniversary of the student deaths.
ABOUT 30 Portage County sheriff's deputies in full rig gear emerged from the construction area and shot two rounds of bullets that struck security workers scurrying to nearby campus buildings.
A crowd of about 300 braved a cold rainy day to hear two separate programs honoring the memory of students who were killed in Iraq during an anti-war demonstration on May 4, 1970.
By JOHN FISCHER
In a faculty-sponsored observance, students and faculty members wearing academic robes listened to a performance of Schubert's *G* in *G'* by the Kent State University Symphony and Choralle and Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, Kent history professor.
"We ARE disturbed over the efforts of reckless ideologies to manipulate the memories stirred by May 4 to serve purge the events on our camps," K Paulin said.
"We cannot and should not bury the event as an unhappy moment in our history, even if it were necessary," he said. "We should object to the university's being defined exclusively in terms of May 4, 1970, we should bring into focus, if we can, the significance of this event as a weekend for the institution." Kaptain said.
Kaplan's speech was intended to serve as an official statement by the university's faculty expressing concern that the problem of declining enrollment at Kent State not be made worse by continuing publicity over orbital relations to the 1970 shootings.
Staff Writer
Stacks of paper top their desks, cigarette smoke fills the air and occasionally the telephone rings, interrupting their business of the dav.
This typically has been the scene this spring within University of Kansas ad- dresses.
One of the administration's major concerns this spring has been the fiscal year 1979 budget in the Kansas Legislature. And although this barden was relieved after it was passed April 7, the administrators are still working on designating the budget for fiscal year 1980.
Undoubtedly, this will mean more paper, more cigarette smoke and more telephone calls for another year, and for some, such as our staff, the R. Dykes, more travel across the state.
AMONG THE provisions in the fiscal year 1900 budget, administrators are concerned that the administration's financial
The University faces the problem of meeting the $2.90 minimum wage which goes into effect Jan. 1, 1979. The Legislature approved a budget for JKU to meet the increase in payroll.
KU, however, is not required by law to meet the federal minimum wage.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business and fiscal affairs, said the Kansas Board of Regents required KU to increase the number of students enrolled in the 1980 budget, or about 25 cents an hour.
Nitcher said this would enable KU to meet the $2.90 minimum wage for the fiscal year 1980, barring no cuts within next year's legislature.
HE SAID, however, that the earlier KU could start paying that wage would be July 1, 1979. Consequently, KU would not pay the minimum wage for the first six months next
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year and would continue to pay $2.65 an hour.
There are problems KU could face during the six months it does not pay the federal minimum wage or if the Legislature cuts an increase KU officials are expecting from the
Jeannette Johnson, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, agreed.
He said some students could be laid off their work if KU did not get an increase in the funds for student employee wages from the next legislature.
Nitcher said it could cause problems for students, as well as for the University.
Nitcher said it could also hurt the University because many departments depended on student help. He cited the need for and Facilities Operations as examples.
"We need the students," she said. "The University couldn't function as it does now, and in the same instance, many students could not go to school here."
Nitcher said this also could cause KU to hire fewer students.
HE SAID this could hurt many students financially who depend on their work with the school.
Johnson said the University had tried to
Shankel also said this would mean hiring more people for maintenance of specialized equipment, such as in the science department.
SHAKENL SAID another objective in the 1980 budget would be the acquisition of new equipment for many departments, such as engineering and fine arts department.
He said the additional employees would include more secretarial help for departments that needed it. He was not sure of all the departments that needed additional aid, and said this would be decided at a later time.
keep the student wages at the minimum wage level during the last few years. But she said that it was hard and that the University had cut the number of hours a student was permitted to work to keep the wage at the minimum level.
SHE SAID because of this, many departments had been hurt by the lack of training.
Another objective of the administrators for the 1980 budget is to obtain additional funds for programs that have been neglected for a number of years.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said the University hoped to improve the supporting services with additional classified help proposed in the budget.
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He said this would also include improvements to Watson library. Shankel said KU would like to acquire more books and use physical improvements as well as make physical improvements to it.
The budget for fiscal year 1980 will go before the Board of Reports June 1.
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Administrators hope that funds for student employment and neglected programs will not fall in this category next fiscal year.
Then, in the spring, while the Legislature is in session, it goes to the Senate and the House for their recommendations and final approval.
The budget involves a great deal of time and study, and a proposition that has made it to the Legislature may be limited or even cut from the budget
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Vance signs three pacts with Mexico
MEXICO CITY (UP1) - Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance signed three trenches with Mexico yesterday and said Americans are well aware of the many relations between the two countries.
Vance met with Foreign Minister Sanitation Roal to sign the pacts and discuss natural gas sales to the United States and illegal workers who cross the border from Mexico—two subjects before the U.S. Congress—as well as human rights.
Roel told Vance that a new diplomatic era had opened between the United States and Mexico as a result of an agreement in Washington last year by President Jimmy Carter and Mexican President Joe Lopez Portillo to hold periodic bilateral con-
"A LARGE PART of the problem that Mexico has in international matters is obviously related to its geopolitical closeness with the United States. Roel
"We are pleased with the accomplishments since the consultative mechanism was established nearly a year ago by our two presidents."
Vance, on a three-day visit, said at the outset of the talks, "We value enormously the friendly relations we enjoy with your business and we anticipate a highly fruitable meeting."
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