THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
10 cents off campus The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas free on campus Wednesday, April 16, 1988
KU's Buckingham battles injuries See story page 10
KUAC has third-quarter surplus in troubled year
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
With three months left in fiscal 1980, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation has a $40,000 surplus—thanks to large budget cuts and higher than usual—despite overspending by $145,000 in seven areas.
According to a March 31 financial statement, Accordio's net income last year had $85,700 higher to date than expected, and total expenses exceed the budget by $2,700. But the budget is expected to balance by the end of the year.
Officials in seven budget areas have overspent $145,254, but those in 10 other budget areas, including men's non-revenue producing sports, have yet to receive funds. Other budget areas where funds have offset the overspending in other budget
areas, leaving the total overpass as of March 31 at $25,752.
Among the sports and departments that have trained the most, football and men's basketball lead the list.
Football has overstretched its $1.2 million budget by 40 percent and the football exceeded its $300,000 budged by 80%, or nine times.
The cost of raising women's athletic scholarships exceeded its $12,000 budget by $25,000. Other general administrative costs went $22,161 over the budget of $474,000.
In addition, the budgets of the sports information office, capital outlay and debt service, which reflects interest owed by KUAC on loans, and men's scholarship-rising were overburden by more than
Waushuter, interim athletic business manager,
said she did not know why the overstressed had
occurred, or whether it had occurred regularly in the past.
Bob Marcum, athletic director, has said outdated
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bookkeeping procedures and inflation were the causes of the overexpending
Others have said the turnover of business has been caused by confounding. Walter currently is serving on an intangible successor to former business manager Joe Bielion was found Biedron resigned in February after 10 weeks.
Whatever the causes of the overspending, KUAC has a $40,000 surplus as it begins the last quarter of its fiscal year—something that would have been unattainable if the property plant not axed $40,000 from its budget in February.
Only $4,500 of that cut is reflected in the March 31 financial statement, however.
She refused to say which departments were involved.
An unbudgeted increase in total income also has helped absorb additional expenses.
Wachter said the full $83,900 had been cut but that about $30,000 was not in the statement because certain departments did not indicate to the business office where they wanted the cuts to be made.
The Williams Fund, the non-profit organization which raises almost all of the money for athletic scholarships, has generated $169,000 more than the $800,000 it was budgeted to raise.
That amount was enough to offset other income items that fell showcased expectations and raise labor costs by $76,000.
Football gate revenues were $65,000 less than ex-
ceptions the basketball brought in almost
$45,000 less than salaries.
Wachter said that the current surplus of $40,000 outstrips the fiscal year end, and the annual abbreviated budget should be
KUAC has refused to release invoices, bills, ex-
which would show exactly what we have purchased.
Mike Davis, University general counsel, has said KUAC did not have to release those documents because they were not "records" according to Kansas open records laws.
But he said that KUAC exemption from the open records laws was not concrete.
As a private corporation it would be exempt from some regulations, but it receives state, money for women's athletics and it is administered by an athletic director and chancellor, who are paid by the
Until some legal action is taken or until Davis
removes those records are likely to remain
closed to the public.
Fame evades Kansas artist
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Reporter
FAIRWAY—Few people have ever heard of the man who draws what may be the most famous comic strip in America.
Don Carlton — not Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau—draws the often-talked about Doonesbury strip, which appears in more than 20 years.
In fact, Trudeau hasn't don’t the strip entripty by himself since banning work on his master's degree at Yale University about a decade.
"Most people don't know that anybody else works on it, but Garry Trudreau," says Carlton. "You tell people you're a cartoonist and that you do Doonesbury and they say 'Oh, no—you're crazy. That's Garry Trudreau.'"
The ideas are entirely Trudeau's. But he only does the preliminary drawings and the dialogue in his New York studio, where he is working on a new book.
Carlson is responsible for putting the strips in publishable form **TRUDEAUAS SKETCHES** rarely show detail—except when a note about the author is inserted.
His drawing talent has long been suspect. when the strip first appeared in the Yale newspaper in 1868, the drawings
When a stock feature—such as the White House—is used, *Trudiean scribes it in.*
Carlton, however, receives little credit. His name doesn't appear on the strip and his salary is a fraction of what the author makes.
"Sometimes," Carlton says, "he doesn't even bother to pencil in the faces."
While his bask mines with the elite in Manhattan—Trudeau has dated Candice Bergen and is currently seeing Jane Paueley—he was a bit of an avid golfer.
Carson has trouble confusing strangers what he uses for a living. He likes to eat pizza, but his friends don't. Impress my kids very much and most of my friends don't even like it.
IN THE TRADE, Carlton is known as an "inker," someone who goes over pencil sketches in ink. His only mention in a 1976 Time magazine was that he
"That description ticks me off," he says. "I 'im portrayed like some guy who sits in some dark corner at the syndicate whom Trudeau hands the strip to on the last step before the engraver." He then provides much of the detail. Often he signs Trudeau's name.
Each cartoon, he says, takes about 90 minutes to complete. The longer Sunday version, which includes color, takes between three and four hours.
"I'm a finishing artist," he says. "Occasionally, I insert a name on the letter of the White House, but not very often."
"I don't take it upon myself to put in any cuteness that comes from Dan Carlton."
ONCE, TRUDEAU'S lack of detail in the sketches led to a mistake by Carlton.
"It was a hospital setting and Garry had drawn the hair on a woman's face. He wore a sweater with the sleeves so "I so looked his face. When the strip came out it just floored me."
Carlton, who has a degree in commercial art from Texas Christian University, was working as circulation manager for three Kansas City-based trade magazines when he began drawing Doonesbury.
"I told Jim (Andrew) thanks but no thanks," he says. "I just didn't think it would work out financially. I never thought the strip would make k. It was crudely drawn, crudely lettered and I didn't think the subject matter was thatood.
A friend of his who owns Universal Press Syndicate in nearby Mission, which publishes Doonesbury, asked him if he'd be interested.
"Pius I had an image of Garry. He was a Yale. He was a blue-blood—his great grandfather's in the history books. And I figured he was awfully brash, not exactly the kind of guy a mid-American family man like me would want as an associate."
The two spent several weeks going over the characters' features and the fine points of the strip before Carlton was rushed into the studio. "I will try to put them in a way that I can see," he said.
But CARLTON finally agreed to meet Trudeau on a day off.
Within a month he was drawing Doonesbury.
"I love it," Carlson says. "If I didn't enjoy the strip it would be a pain. It's the best strip around." When the strip is good and you don't have to strip yourself, it's great.
These days he and Garry are close friends. They talk almost daily by phone, often at length. Trudeau often asks his advice on how to build a new home.
Top: Den Carton, the artist behind Garry Trudean's Dohnesbury comic strip, relaces in his studio on the second floor of his home in Fairway. Bottom: Carton demonstrates the style he uses in drawing sketches. He also draws smooth sketches. Here he sketches Zonker Harris and Mike Dohnesbury.
Photos by Scott Smith
"The first one was pretty bad," he says. "It was a year before I was comfortable with it. But now they come second years."
Senate breaks trend, finishes under budget
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate broke with tradition last night, amid grateful sighs of relief, by staving $232 under its budget of $40 000.
"This is the first time in God knows how many years that we we've gone under budget. We've been through these groups. We considered each group on their merits, and didn't give a penny more than was needed."
Before budget hearings began, the Senate had more than 100,000 funders and funding agencies. The Senate began the budgeting process by dividing into committees and setting individual committee members.
After the committee voted on allocations to organizations, the committee budgets were submitted to the Senate for final approval.
The process is complete for this year, but there are plans for revising the budgeting procedure, according to several Senate officer.
Abbott said the individual committee budgets were determined by totaling their organizational funding requests and combined the total requests. He wants that changed.
If, for example, Culture Committee requests added up to one-fourth of the total Senate budget requests, that committee
budget requests, that commit
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Decrease anticipated in employee turnover
Staff Reporter
Thirty six percent of the classified employees at the University of Kansas left the University last year, according to the 1979 personnel data of the department of personal services.
But this turnover rate is expected to decrease this year because of a new pay plan that proposes an 11 percent increase in the annual Lewin, director of personnel services, said.
Lewin said that he did not think the 36 percent turnover last year was high, but that he did not have any turnover figures from past years.
"We expect the turnover to go down because the University's salaries will become more competitive with the new pay plan for classified employees." Lewin said.
O'Neill said the non-professional nature of the work of many classified employees could explain part of the turnover.
BUT JOSEPH COLH, a member of the Executive Classified Senate, said he thought the turnover of classified employees who worked at service was higher than it needed to be.
"The beginning salaries have been so low that people were leaving for better-paying jobs." Collins said.
Low pay, although the primary factor, is not the only reason for the high turnover rate in classified employees, according to Hill, president of the Classified Senate.
She also suggested that another reason for the turnover could be the high number of students employed as clerical workers and as ground maintenance crew members.
"Most students or spouses of students just leave when they graduate," she said. "I don't think there is much we can do to stop that tree of turnover."
OF THESE LEAVING their classified positions last year, almost 23 percent left for other employment and 23 percent for personal reasons, according to the annual
About 16 percent left because they were moving, 8 percent because they were returning to school and 7 percent because they were dismissed.
Promotions and transfers were not figured into this turnover rate.
The statistical breakdown is skeletal in last year's report. Lewin said.
"For instance, 'personal' could mean several different things," he said. "It just gives us hints as to why classified employees are leaving."
THE CURRENT statistics do not reflect length of employment. The department does not know whether the employees who are new with KU one month, one year or longer.
However, the personnel department will be making these statistics more complete by implementing a more extensive "exit" plan for employees due to the end of the fiscal year. Lewin said.
"We hope that these interviews will provide data to start understanding why classified employees are leaving," Lewin said.
Dick Mann, University data of information, said that in the past there had been a general absence of specific data on classified employees.
Older students studying, traveling in Elderhostel
By BEN JONES Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In 1938, Herbert Epstein graduated from the University of Kansas. He says it never occurred to him that he might one day come to know his mother, Estein, 65, has re- enrolled
Faust, who lives in West Palm Beach, Epstein, spent three years at KU during the 1970s. That is the length of a program he will participate in called Elderhostel. Elderhostel gives people who are over 60 the opportunity to live across the country during the summer.
The *wek-long programs*, which cost $130 each and run from Sunday to Saturday, are staggered, allowing participants to make their way across the country, taking courses from universities, colleges and his wife Florence, who attended their first Elderhostel last summer at Hamilton
College in New York, plan to hostel at the University of Missouri after they leave KU. Mrs. Epstein received her bachelor's degree in 1988 while Epidin did graduate work.
A NOMADIC form of academics for elderly was what Elderhostel's two founders called in 1974. The inspiration for Elderhostel came when one of the founders, Martin Krupp, was a student in Europe. While in Europe, Knowlton was impressed by the youth hosts and by the contributing influences older people had on him. He met young people and convinced what he saw there into Elderhostel.
In 1975, the first Elderhostel program opened at the University of New Hampshire. In the half decade since, the program has moved to all 50 states.
This is the first year KU has participated
the first year KU has participated See ELDER page six