Wednesday, March 17, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Graduate group upset about Senate budgets
Increase in organizations prompts cuts to programs
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Members of the Graduate and Professional Association are upset that Student Senate may decrease their funding for next year by $2,000.
After about 60 hours of hearings and deliberation that began last October, the Senate Finance Committee will submit a budget bill to Senate today outlining the allocation of $660,614 to student organizations for the next academic year.
GPA was the only group that expressed concern about the funding cuts at the Finance Committee meeting Last Wednesday.
GPA applied for $116,000 but received only $81,000, which was $2,000 less than its previous block allocation two years ago.
"There are 6,000 graduate students at KU who pay a lot more than what they get back," Mazumdar said. "Undergraduates control Senate, and the Finance Committee is made up almost entirely of undergraduates."
Dede Seibel, Finance Committee chairwoman and Nunemaker senator, said that no group had received as much funding as it requested.
She said the committee, composed of 20 senators and other students, had cut funding from previous block allocations for all but seven groups.
She said the amount of funding available through the Student Senate Activity Fee remained the same, but four additional groups requested funding.
"There was a lot of penny pinching and cutting from groups that definitely need funding." Seibel said. "Funds are so tight through that process."
She said she was concerned that Hilltop Child Development Center, which was created by Senate in 1978 and now has plans for expansion, received only $25,000.
"It's hard when a group has been around for 22 years, and we can't even fund them when they need it," Seibel said.
She said that even a $1 increase in the Student Sonate Activity Fee would be
helpful but that Senate did not want to increase student fees.
Some of the largest allocations were $125,000 to the Lied Center so students would receive discounted tickets,
$90,000 in administrative costs to Senate,
$65,000 to KU Bands and $59,000 to University Theatre.
To receive block allocation funding, a group must provide a tangible benefit to the KU community, show continuing viability as an organization, be financed by Senate for at least three years before its request and prove its need for two-year funding.
Senate has $15,900 remaining in its unallocated account for student organizations that request funding before March 31.
Scholarship hall residents are invited to attend the Senate meeting today at 6:30 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Mike Schindler, All Scholarship Hall Council president, will speak about the needs and concerns of scholarship hall residents.
— Edited by Clint Hooker
Jenny Balak, Topaka senior, works at the Liquid-Liquid Extraction Column inside the chemical engineering lab in Learned Hall. The University of Kansas awards degrees to more women engineers than any other university in the United States. Photo by Eric Schmarrman / Kansas
KU women chemical engineer numbers rising
By Jennifer Roush
jroush@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
For two years, the University of Kansas' department of chemical engineering has had a higher percentage of women engineering graduates than the national average.
In 1998, 46 percent of chemical engineering degrees awarded at the University went to women, and in 1997 the number was 40 percent. The national average for those two years was 33 percent.
Don Green, department chairman, said more women were attracted to the department because of their interest in chemistry.
The department is able to attract women for a variety of reasons, Green said. The combination of good undergraduate scholarships and the recruitment of qualified women and a faculty
He said chemical engineering also offered options such as a pre-med program and biomedical and environmentalengineering.
of 13—which will include three women by fall 1999—has made chemical engineering more popular for women considering the University.
Green also said women had been active and involved in the department. For the past two years, the president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student chapter has been a woman.
"Women are leaders in the department, and that helps us attract other women." Green said.
He also said the department had a reputation for excellence, which was demonstrated by the three Goldwater scholarships that were awarded to KU chemical engineering students in Spring 1998. Two of those scholarships went to women.
She said that, nationally, more women wanted to become chemical engineers.
Marylee Southard, faculty adviser for the Society of Women Engineers, said the numbers were part of a long-term trend.
Janel Harting. Derby senior, agreed
and said that she entered the engineering school because she wanted to go into medicine.
"I was looking at med school, and I wanted a degree that would cover a lot of things," Harting said.
She said that although the University's chemical engineering department had more women than the national average, she didn't think they had been singled out for special treatment.
"They treat us the same, and I'd rather have it that way," Harting said.
Larissa Lee, also a Derby senior and president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student chapter, said she chose chemical engineering because she wanted to attend medical school and didn't want a typical major.
"I'm pre-med, but I didn't want to be just another biology major," she said.
another biology major," she said. Lee also said that she felt comfortable as a chemical engineering student at the University.
"There's good recruitment,good faculty and good support from the department." she said.
Edited by Jon Campbell
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