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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Sports: After whipping Wichita State, the Kansas baseball team is trying to keep it going against Nebraska.
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Inside: Film tour examines corporatization of universities.
(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 110 NO. 128
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2000
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Coalition candidates from Students First prepare Sno Cones for students passing by their table yesterday. They handed out Sno Cones and buttons to students at Wescoe Beach. Photo by Tara Kraus/KANSAN
Candidates entice students with Sno Cones, music
By Erinn R. Barcombo
writer@kansan.com
writer staff writer
Students First
The sounds of Destiny's Child. Dave Matthews Band and a conga drum permeated Wescoe Beach yesterday as three Student Senate coalitions passed out buttons, filers and even Sno Cones.
Active campaigning began last week, which meant that candidates could approach students away from their tables, like those on Wescoe Beach.
"We try not to get in people's way," said Eric Braun, St. Louis freshman and Delta Force candidate for a Nunemaker seat. "People have told us they run and hide during this week."
Maggie Koerth, Salina freshman and Delta Force candidate for a Nunemaker seat, said the Delta Force table offered fliers, buttons and petitions for bicycle lanes.
The small conga was played by Barry Barnes, a Lawrence resident who said he played on campus when
"We try not to get in people's way. People have told us they run and hide during this week."
Eric Braun
St. Louis freshman
he had a free afternoon. Delta Force invited Barnes to play near their table.
"Twenty years ago, I would have been out with these people," Barnes said. "I'm for change."
Icy treats were the draw for the Students First coalition. Josh Boots, Plano, Texas, sophomore and Students First candidate for a liberal arts and sciences seat, said coalition members thought the weather would be warmer yesterday but that the Sno Cones still were popular.
"It's a good way to get people out," said Katie Bartlett, Chicago sophomore and candidate for a Numemaker
seat.
The table also offered filers with information on the Students First Web site, which includes a feedback form.
"A lot of people don't have time to talk to you on their way to class," Bartlett said.
She said the Web site was a way to get information to more students.
The United Students table has been pretty busy most of the week, said Ben Walker, Hutchinson junior and United Students presidential candidate. Walker said students came by to put buttons on their book bags, to talk to the candidates and to sign a petition for online enrollment.
"I think with so many coaltions it's important to let people know who you are and why you're running." Walker said.
True to form, the Resume Builders have a "Kiss-A-Builder" fund-raiser planned for next week, said Luke Atkinson, Leawood junior and presidential candidate for the Resume Builders.
Atop the University of Kansas payroll
Newly hired deans <sup>starts</sup>
William Fuerst / Business (July 1)
Toni-Marie Montgomery / Fine Arts
Stephen McAllister / Law
Other administrators
Deborah Powell / KU Med dean
Donald Hagen / KU Med chancellor
Robert Hemenway / Chancellor
Thomas Sarowski / Business (June 30)
David Shulenburger / Provost
Satartes
$225,000
125,000
175,000
$268,802
265,095
202,428
157,960
150,868
Business dean to make more than Hemenway
Jason Pearce/KANSAN
Rv Rvan Devlin
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When William Fuerst, a professor and administrator at Texas A&M University, arrives July 3 to take over as dean of business, he will do so as the highest-paid administrator on the Lawrence campus.
Fuerst will be paid an annual salary of $225,000, said Chancellor Robert Hemenway — which is more than Hemenway himself makes.
Fuerst will make a base salary of $150,000, $7,960 less than current dean Tom Sarowski's base salary. The money for Fuerst's base salary will come from the state general fund. But Fuerst will make an additional $75,000 as the inaugural Henry D. Price professor. The professorship was created and endowed by Price, a 1936 graduate of the School of Business. Hemenway said the Price professorship was instrumental in bringing Fuerst to Kansas.
"If Mr. Price had not given us the gift, given what business deans are paid at other universities, I don't think we would have attracted any serious applications for the position," Hemenway said.
Lynn Bretz, associate director of University Relations, said that salaries for business deans ranged from $178,000 to $277,832 of the 14 peer institutions that the University compared itself. Those universities include Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Colorado.
Hemenway, whose salary is $202,428 said it was not unusual for business deans to be paid more than chancellors.
"I think it's very common these days."
Henway said. "Don't forget that most
more business deans could easily be paid much as CEOs of corporations."
Bretz said that base salary numbers could be deceiving because they didn't include money made from grants and endowed professorships.
"Often, universities will leverage salaries through grants and private giving." Bretz said.
Hemenway said that the administration was committed to increasing salaries across the board — not just the salary of the business dean.
"I think the most important priority for our University is to convince the Legislature and the governor that our salaries need to be competitive," Hemenway said. "Our salaries rank 10 out of 12 in the Big 12. Students deserve the best faculty we can hire."
Fuerst will not be the highest paid KU official. As reported in the *Lawrence JournalWorld*, two University of Kansas Medical Center officials are paid more. Deborah Powell, executive dean of medicine and vice chancellor for clinical affairs, will make $268,802, and Donald Hagen, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center will make $265,095.
Fuerst is the third dean to be hired this academic year. Toni-Marie Montgomery was hired Oct. 12 as dean of fine arts, and Stephen McAllister was hired as dean of law Dec. 27. Montgomery makes a base salary of $125,000, and McAllister will make $175,000, which is $25,000 more than Fuerst's base salary and $24,132 more than the salary of Provost David Shulenburger.
Fuerst was hired March 31 to replace Tom Sarowski, who is retiring June 30. Fuerst was contacted but said he preferred not to comment.
Henry "Fritz" Schaefer, a five-time Nobel Prize nominee in chemistry and professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia, gives his talk "Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence?" in the Kansas Union. About 200 people attended Schaefer's lecture last night. Photo by Craig Bennett/KANSAS
Scientist links science with religion
By Jim O'Malley
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Jim O'Malley
Henry "Fritz" Schaefer, professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia, presented a speech titled "Science and Christianity? " to a crowd of nearly 200 at the Kansas Room in the Union. The speech was sponsored by the Faculty Christian Fellowship and the Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship.
A five-time nominee for a Nobel Prize in chemistry tried to bridge the apparent gap between science and religion last night in a speech in the Kansas Union.
A distinguished scientist and a committed Christian, Schaefer said he found no conflict between science and his religion. He said
"I haven't said much about biology because I'm not a biologist," he said. "I'm not going to talk about the E-word tonight. You've heard a lot about that already. I want to try to keep some distance from the more controversial aspects of the issue."
"There aren't any good scientific arguments against God," Schaefer said. "I view all of science as a way to understand God's creation."
Schaefer addressed the Kansas evolution controversy only in passing.
the commonly stated position that science had disproved God was based on ignorance of science.
"He hasn't been to Kanaas, obviously." Schaefer said.
But he did quote geologist John Suppe, who said, "If scientists are looking for meaning in their lives, it won't be found in evolution.
Schaefer cited examples of sci.
He said physicists were especially unlikely to be atheists, but he said he'd heard the University of Kansas was an exception.
entists from Blaise Pascal to recent Nobel Prize winners who were Christians.
"I've been told there are a significant number of atheists in the physics department at the University of Kansas," Schaefer said. "At Berkeley, we'd go to the religion department for atheists."
Intelligent design creationist Philip Johnson will speak at 7 tonight in Budig Hall. Johnson, professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley, argues that the evidence supporting Darwinian evolutionary theory is weak. He says science refuses to consider the possibility that living things are designed intelligently by a creator because it is committed to an atheistic materialist philosophy.
Gary O'Doniel installs a new door and threshold at Footprints, 1339 Massachusetts St., during the renovation of the store yesterday. The store, owned by Mick Ranney, will be filmed tomorrow for an upcoming episode of Restore America with Bob Vila, a program on the Home and Garden Channel. Ranney's work restoring homes in Lawrence also will be filmed. Photo by J.M.Dailey/Kansan
Local man's home repair work attracts Bob Vila's TV program
By Doug Pacey
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Restore America with Bob Vila will be filming in Lawrence this weekend, but the American cultural icon will not be in town.
"From what I hear, he's a producer on the show and his schedule is pretty busy, so he couldn't be here," said Mick Ranney, owner of Footprints, 1339 Massachusetts St., and part of the reason the program is in Lawrence.
Ranney has spent more than $100,000 repairing old homes in Lawrence.
"Restore America with Bob Vila is a show that has historic homes and the people who care for them," said Chris Barrett, a Home and Garden Channel representative.
Chris Barrett
Home and Garden Channel
"Restore America with Bob Vila is a show that has historic homes and the people who care for them."
representative
Lawrence resident Mick Runney's home repair work in the area and Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes' ties with the community are what brought the show here, Barrett said.
The program showcases homes from every state in the country — Kansas is one of the last states to appear on the show.
Banney said he had repaired
more than a dozen homes in Lawrence since 1976, but it was the first house at he repaired at 520 Louisiana St, that caught the producer's attention, he said.
"It was covered in asphalt shingles and had asbestos," said Ranney. "I removed the shingles and asbestos and returned the original clapboard siding to the house."
The house is significant not only because of the restoration, but also because it has ties to Hughes.
"I believe it was built by a wealthy black family," he said. "Their daughter was a teacher who tutored Langston Hughes."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway also will appear on the show, Barrett said.
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