The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
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Vol. 90, No. 150 Thursday, June 26, 1980
Randy Rudy, 17, at left, Trefor Locke, 10, in the air, and Vanessa McTaggart, at right, found the pool at Gaslight Village, 900 W. 31st St., to be the perfect place to escape from the week's humid weather.
Satellite Union losing money more activities may be cure
Bv CHICK HOWLAND
By CHICK HOWLAND Staff Reporter
The Satellite Union, built to serve student needs on the west edge of campus, is losing money. It will cost the Kansas Union almost $20 million a year. The associate director of the Union said this week.
Final figures for this fiscal year will not be completed until late July, Ferguson said. If the deficit is as great as he predicts, it would be the Union's worst loss since 1970. That year the Union lost $62,000 because of a fire that gutted the top two levels of the main building.
THE KANASS UNION's operations might be the largest in the world, but the Satellite Unions will affect the overall organization.
"It will have to correct itself." Perguson said, because we can't operate at a deficits level.
Ferguson said that when Satellite Union planning began in 1976, economic conditions were extremely poor.
lack of publicity have been significant problems for the Satellite Union this year.
"We think the timing of the opening, certainly from an economic standpoint, was not the best," he added.
"There still are a lot of students who I don't think really know that the Satellite building is there."
Some of those who do know about the new buildings that tell Terguson that there are not so many.
"There is a lounge for you to study in," be said. You can buy food and you can buy things at the bar. You can eat a sandwich, drink a coffee or just relax.
To remedy these problems, Ferguson said a Friday afternoon beer special and local bands were being considered. An electronic game room may be added by fall, he said.
THE SATELLITE UNION will also undergo some personnel adjustments. Ferguson said the Satellite Union director opening would not be the job recently was vacated by Pat Wolfe.
"We have taken the opportunity to rearrange the responsibilities and duties in an effort to cut cost."
Although planners of the Satellite Union expected a slow start, it must make a lot more money in the next two years to avoid drastic changes, he said.
"Within three years it ought to be self-supporting," Ferguson said. "If it isn't by then, I think a hard look will have to be taken at the operation.
"We would probably have to cut further the operating hours, raise the student operating fees and increase prices to offset it, or use it for other purposes."
Ferguson said selling the Satellite Union is a possible, but unlikely, solution.
"I don't want to say that it couldn't happen," he said, "but I don't know of any reason why it should."
Draft registry refusal urged
Bv HURST LAVIANA
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Anti-Draft Organization is urging people to ignore draft registration, which next month will require 4 million men to register for the draft at local post offices nationwide.
Nick Paretsky, Lawrence sophomore and spokesman for the organization, said yesterday that plans are being made to picket the post office during the two-week registration period. He said he would not register and he is urging others not to.
"IT'S NOT JUST registration," Paretsky said. "Registration has almost always led to a draft. I think we are preparing for war and people should think very seriously about that. They're not going down to the post office to register for a license. They're going down to register for war."
The bill, which was approved by the Senate yesterday, would require all men born in 1960 and 1961 to register or face a possible penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Carter's draft registration plan was vigorously debated in Congress and anti-draft groups across the nation are promising resistance now that the program has won approval.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it would file suit to have the registration plan declared unconstitutional because women were excluded.
Carter asked Congress for authority to register young women as well as young men, but both the
"People who don't register risk prosecution,
but I consider the risk to be minimal." Paretsky said.
They may just decide to prosecute certain
cases, but I don't believe they I really don't
think I'm important enough."
Paretsky and he did not expect to see a return to cost-sensitive deferments that were available during the pandemic.
"It's going to be tough this time," he said.
"A few people counselled just right could get conscientious objector deferences, but most kids are just not prepared for that."
ROBERT STREEPY, an assistant attorney in the U. Attorney's office in Topeka, said he had not heard from Washington about the registration law's enforcement. He said the government probably would not issue guidelines for prosecution of those who do not register until 2015, even when the government would follow a uniform procedure for prosecuting offenders, he said.
LAWRENCE RESIDENTS CHARGED with violating federal laws come under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City. One from that office was available for comment.
Jack Harris, Lawrence postmaster, said he would go to school soon. "He's got a good job with an administration procedure."
ACCORDING TO figures from the Office of Admissions and Records, there were 1,248 men enrolled at KU last fall who were born in 1960 and 1,538 born in 1961. No figures were available on the number of draft-age men enrolled this summer.
Regents begin hearings on new budget
By DAVID STIPP Staff Reporter
The battle of the budget for fiscal year 1982 is about to begin.
The Kansas Board of Regents is scheduled tomorrow to begin hearings on KU's proposed budget, which includes raises of 10 percent for faculty and 8.1 percent for student employees. The proposed budget also includes $1.4 million for program improvements, to help KU catch up with laa peer institutions.
The proposed budget for fiscal year 1982, which begins July 1, 1981, provides $137 million for the Lawrence campus, 12.5 percent more than was approved for fiscal year 1981 by the University. The budget includes $142.4 million for the KU Medical Center, an 11.3 percent increase.
If approved, the 10 percent faculty pay increase for 1902 would be 1 percent more than the 1901.
STUDENT SALARIES ARE also scheduled for slightly larger increases in fiscal year 1982. The 8.1 percent increase would be 1.2 percent more increase, the 9.9 percent increase approved for fiscal year 1981.
Classified employee salary increases for fiscal year 1982 will be based on a four-step system that includes (a) Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said Monday. But he said salary increases for KU classified employees will depend on between 7 and 10 percent in the proposed budget.
Some of the more important requests in the 1982 fiscal year budget are for program improvements based on formula funding, Jones said. Formula funding recommendations are made by comparing KU with five peer institutions, the universities of Oregon, Colorado, and Michigan. The deficits are assigned in those areas in which KU is found to lag behind its peer institutions. These areas include such things as course offerings, equipment availability and library expenditures.
THE REGENTS HAVE recommended that KU's 1982 budget include program improvements to erase about 20 percent of this $6 million deficit. Jones said.
Jones said that for fiscal year 1982, KU engaged behind the average accumulated expenditures of the institution.
Among formula-funded improvement items for 1982 are the creation of two new faculty positions, one in the School of Business and one in the School of Journalism.
Dykes criticized by former director
By MARK PITTMAN
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has lived up to the letter, but not the spirit, of federal affirmative action laws. Bonnie Ritter, former president of Kansas Affirmative Action, said this week.
RITTER SAID her frustration with the University's lack of commitment to the goal of equal opportunity caused her to leave the University for two years. She has been teaching at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Ritter said Dykes refused to do anything not specifically required by federal and state law. And Dykes would only reluctantly perform actions that were required, she said.
She said Affirmative Action had an "adversary relationship" with the University administration because of differing views on equal opportunity.
Dykes was in Chicago. Ill. last night and unavailable for comment earlier this week.
Although Ritter's resignation was announced a week ago, she would now like to be considered for the position from which she could cause the change of administrations.
"There will always be an impasse when the teacher says, 'I will not what is not required by law.'"
Ritter said that Del Shankel, who will assume the post of acting chancellor Aug. 15, had the commitment necessary to make the affirmative action program work.
"I resigned assuming there would be no change in the administration," she said. "The
"DEL SHANKEL FULLY understands the relationship between quality in personnel and equality of opportunity," Ritter said. "There is sufficient certification for treating an applied unfit."
Ritter may not be eligible to enter a search that would or may be limited to campus, according to Robert Cobb, who takes over as director of the college. He was very unusual for a faculty member or administrator to resign and then wish to reapply for that same position. Cobb said he did not know the circumstances surrounding his experience and did not make any determination without study.
Shankel defended Dykes' commitment to the program.
"While under the chancellor the program has made some progress," he said. "It could not have made this progress without his commitment."
Ritter would be considered as a candidate for the permanent directorship if a national committee approved it.
Skanel, who is currently executive vice chancellor, said he would decide this week to hire a new administrator of affirmative action would be conducted nationwide or only within the University, or whether Mike Edwards, the current acting president, would be appointed to the permanent position.
But Edwards could still be appointed to the permanent position without th2: search process that affirmative action often requires of other departments, and Shankel did not rule this out as one of the options he might choose.
Bonnie Ritter
Weather
The weather forecast for the Lawrence area calls for clear skies and hot humid days through tomorrow. Thunderstorms may move into the area lowering temperatures this weekend. It will be mostly sunny today with the temperature climbing to 99 and high humidity. Winds will be from the east at 5-15 mph and the skies will be clear. Tonight the skies will remain clear and warm light winds will blow from the east. The overnight low will drop to about 74. Tomorrow will be almost identical to today with clear skies and hot humid weather. The high will again be 99 and the winds will be from the east at 5-15 mph.
Tomorrow night skies will again be clear with a light breeze from the east.
Physicians refuse to aid those who desire childbirth at home
By LESLIE SPANGLER
Staff Reporter
Pregnant women in Lawrence have few alternatives to a traditional hospital delivery.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital voted last week to delay a decision on the proposed birthing room for six months. Temporary rules and regulations for the certification and licensing of nurse-midwives have been approved, but currently there is no working program.
FOR REASONS RANGING from malpractice to economics to disapproval of home delivery, local obstetricians, Henry Buck, RL. Hermes and Howard Wilcox, said they were very interested in maternal care to women considering home delivery.
In addition, none of the certified obstetricians in Lawrence, provide prenatal care for women.
Gary Owens, a Lawrence obstetrician, said he would not answer any questions on the subje
Buck said, "I think that all pregnant women need prenatal care, but if their ultimate goal is home birth, then I will not provide that care."
The doctors expressed concern about the statistics on infant mortality rates. The
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