Tuesday, February 29, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
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Members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority dance in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday afternoon. The group was celebrating the birthday of its pledge class S.S. Spectrum. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
Building may lack operation funds
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Rv. Ryan Devlin
With the renovations on Joseph R. Pearson Hall nearly completed, and the School of Education set to move next fall, the University of Kansas remains uncertain where the money to pay for the building's operation will come from.
Provost David Shulenburger said the operating costs for the hall, which is expected to be about $300,000 next year, would not be covered under Gov. Bill Graves' current recommendations for the 2001 operating budget. The budget will take effect in June of this year.
Marlin Rein, University director of budget and governmental affairs, said the Regents requested an additional $311,000 for this year's budget from the Kansas Legislature to pay for the operating costs.
But Shulenburger said it was too early to tell if the Legislature would come through with the money.
"We are hopeful that the Legislature will fund the Regents' request for the funds to service JRP." Shulenburger said. "If they do not, we will have to internally reallocate sufficient funds to service the building, which implies that we will have less funding to spend on other
activities next year than we have this year."
Lindy Eakin, associate provost,
said the provost's office hadn't
decided which activities might be
cut. He said the provost's office
likely would wait until after the
Legislature made its decision.
"We've generally received most of the operating money we we've asked for from the Legislature for service costs," Eakin said. "We usually get at least the utility money, but this is a pretty big chunk."
Eakin said one option the University might have if the Legislature did not provide the money was to use flexible money to finance the building's operating costs. He said that flexible money was not committed to any specific expenses, but that it gave the University the ability to cover unexpected expenses or to provide additional funding for activities such as library acquisitions or technology investments.
"The flexible money portion of the budget is usually less than one half percent of the budget, or a few hundred-thousand dollars.
"We could use flexible money for one or two years for JRP, but this is a permanent thing," Eakin said. "My guess is that if the Legislature doesn't come through with the money, we'll probably have to bite the bullet and reallocate."
Committee votes to keep student sports fee
By Erinn R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Students won't see $20 taken off their campus fees anytime soon.
The campus fee review committee voted yesterday against a proposal by Korb Maxwell, student body president, that gradually would have reduced the women's and nonrevenue sports fee throughout the next five years, eventually eliminating it.
The fee will not be up for review for another three years.
"It doesn't make sense for students to pay a fee to something with a massive budget," Maxwell said.
Spectators of women's and nonrevenue sports should pay for those sports by having The University of Kansas Athletic Corp. charge ticket prices for the sports, Maxwell said. Currently, students with a KUID can attend these events for free.
But if KUAC raised ticket prices, as proposed by Maxwell.
KUAC officials have said that raising ticket prices would be only one way to make up for the loss in fees.
the student sports package would cost $235 after five years, said Pat Warren, assistant director of athletics. It currently costs $100.
Michael Hevel, Waverly junior and committee member, said he thought fees were a way for students to support sports for which they would not necessarily buy tickets.
Aravind Muthukrishnan, Manhattan junior and committee chairman, said that he didn't think cutting the fee would directly hurt the programs but that keeping the sports free might encourage more students
to attend.
"Students want to cut student fees," he said. "They don't want to cut particular fees."
Brian Falb, Dubuque, Iowa, sophomore and committee member, said that as a former college athlete, he didn't think cutting fees would hurt morale. But he said that he did not want to tell a softball player she couldn't play because there wasn't enough money to support her sport.
Haskell to preserve history
"With them, it's more than entertainment," Falb said. "It's something that adds to the experience."
College will build museum, archives
By Kursten Phelps Special to the Kansar
Among the boxes of yellowing papers, books and photos piled in various corners of the Haskell Indian Nations University library lies the key to understanding the history and tradition behind Haskell and the Native-American community.
With the aid of a $50,000 grant from the National Parks Service's "Save our National Treasures" program, Haskell is moving forward with an effort to preserve and centralize its historical documents and research materials. In addition, the university also plans to build a museum and archives center that would serve as a cultural center for Haskell and the community.
"Haskell has such a fascinating history," said Bobbi Rahder, library archivist. "It started out as a boarding school basically for forced assimilation and has become a four-year university for American-Indian students that promotes Indian culture. It's completely reversed its purpose. It's so important to preserve the history of the institution through various programs."
Besides organizing and cataloging archival materials, the library also is using the grant money to put every issue of The Indian Leader, Haskell's student-run newspaper, on microfilm.
Rahder said after the microfilming was finished, the library planned to digitize the issues and put them on the Internet for easy
access. She said this would be particularly useful for alumni, who live across the country and cannot always come back to the campus to find information.
"There's a real continuum at Haskell," she said. "A lot of our students come here because family members — grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles — went here, so our documents, especially the newspaper, often help them learn about their families and heritage."
Haskell's museum plans are possible because of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which sponsors a program in which log cabin companies donate logs and roofing materials to tribal colleges to build museums and research centers. Haskell will be responsible for the actual construction of the building and providing materials for finishing the interior.
Groundbreaking for the museum is scheduled for June, and Rahder said Haskell was planning to seek monetary and material donations from the community. Although the project still is in the developmental stage, Rahder said she hoped it would be complete and open to the public in two years.
"It will truly be a cultural center with museum exhibits and a place for researchers to come for access to Haskell," Rahder said. "It will help us achieve our goal of becoming a national center for Indian education and research. It will bring researchers to Haskell to get the story instead of going somewhere else."
Rahder said that in the past, the university did not have the space, staff or resources to maintain an extensive archives collection. As a result, many items and collections were given to the Watkins
Community Museum,' the KU Spencer Research Library, the Kansas State Historical Society and the National Archives branch in Kansas City, Mo. She said she was writing another grant proposal to finance a project that would index and duplicate items at other museums so that the library would have a complete catalog of all historical items related to Haskell.
Rahder is proposing a class for the fall that would deal with archiving historical documents, and she also hopes to bring in a mural expert that would educate the students about restoration and maintenance of the university's murals.
A disaster-training workshop, which would teach how to save the various photographs and pieces of art that are scattered throughout the campus in an emergency, also is planned.
Rahder said that although the improvements in the archives would benefit researchers and community members, the most important people affected were the students.
"It's nice to get other researchers to Haskell, but our primary interest is in helping our students understand the history," she said.
To help with the increased work in the library, the staff has hired extra student workers.
One Haskell student, senior Mila Capes-Altom, said that working with the archives was like digging in a diamond mine.
"I found my grandfather in here," she said, tapping the recently-discovered ledger of all the students in the first five years of Haskell's existence. "I can just see those kids there, scared to death, giving them all this information about themselves, waiting to be stripped and put in non-Native clothing."
Rhonda Levaldo, a librarian at Haskell Indian Nations University, searches through the archives yesterday. Haskell has received the funds to help revamp its archival system and build a structure that would house the archives. Photo by J.M.Dailey/KANSAN
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