Thursday, April 10, 1980
University Daily Kansan
5
Cans only trash crew bonus
By GREG SACKUVICH Staff Reporter
For those who collect aluminum cans, collecting on the KU campus could be the ideal job.
In three weeks, Dave Fern. KU trash collector, collected $12 worth of cans for recycling.
“This isn’t a bad job,” Fern said. “Compared to collecting trash for the city, this is clean, and the cans are a bonus.”
His fellow workers on the trash crew are not as enthusiastic about collecting trash as Fern. Fern runs from the truck and picks up in about 180 trash cans on campus.
"I'd like to trade this job with the other guys so we wouldn't have to do the trash all the time," Lloyd Alexander, another trash crew member, said.
Ian Rowell is the third trash crew member.
THE TRIE MEN change the trash bags twice a week in a never-ending supply of clean. They encounter mountains of aluminum cups, wadded paper and an
occasional pornographic magazine, Alexander said.
"I'd rather find a good fishing magazine myself," he said.
Spring is the best time of year for collecting trash, he said.
KU publication funding examined
In the winter, ice gets in the trash bags and barrels and they have to be emptied by hand. In the summer heat, the trash becomes rancid, he said.
Collecting trash is only one of the jobs the men, who work for the moving department of facilities operations, perform.
Another of their jobs that goes unnoticed is preparing Allen Field House or Hoch Auditorium for concerts.
Checking fire extinguishers, moving chairs and tables and replacing Venetian blinds are just a few of the many jobs of the 15 men of the department handle.
THIS USUALLY involves extra work the day of the concert when chairs are set up and the stage and lights are prepared for the act. Alexander said.
But the real job comes after the concert when the men have to tear down all the work they did a few hours earlier, he said.
Funding for scholarly publications at the university of Kansas is plagued by inflation, with many faculty having problems, according to a report from the Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Publishing.
The report, which will be discussed at this Friday's Faculty executive committee meeting, said that the present funding method was "casual and confusing." It said there was little attempt to evaluate it. The managers, as a result, they were inefficient run.
E. JACKSON BAUR, chairman of the Committee on Scholarly Publications, said yesterday the committee was not a part of the regular University budgeting process, but that it was given an allocation because being allowed to make budgetary requests.
The report's recommendations dealt with publications funded by the Committee on Research at the National Institutes of Health $7,264 from the office of research, graduate studies and public service for allocations
The committee used this money, and $12,000 expected from publication sales. to
make preliminary allocations of $41,800 to five regularly published periodicals and six irregularly published publications series.
One of the report's recommendations suggested that the University enlarge scholarly publications allocations so the committee would have greater flexibility in allocating funds to individual publications to keep pace with inflation. Bair said in the report that it would be allowed to make budget requests, or of receiving an unalterable allocation.
ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION was to review funded publications to evaluate whether they were efficiently using their money.
"The committee never undertakes to judge value." Bair said. "Most publications are very technical. Only people who are experts are in a position to judge."
Baur said that, in the proposed system of review, people competent in the fields covered by the publication would make the evaluation.
The report also said provisions should be made so that funded publications were not simultaneously receiving funds from other University sources.
"The committee has accepted the editor's word," Baur said. "They haven't asked if they've been getting money from someone else."
He said that while there might not be abuses of the extra funds, the committee was still receiving an inaccurate picture of the publication's needs.
However, this was not a big problem now,
Baur said.
Baur said, however, that many faculty members were not aware of the funds
available for scholarly publications. He recommended publishing the committee's services in University periodicals, the faculty and fleds sent to department chairmen.
SILE RECORDS AND TAPES
Paraphernalia
842-305-15 15 W. 9th St.
Scholarly publications at the University are paid for by fund allocations from the Faculty Senate Committee on Scholarly Publications, by direct allocation from the state, or by miscellaneous sources, such as grants from the Senate President Senate budget allocations or subscriptions.
The regular periodicals, bearing such titles as Res Publica Literature and the annual issue of *New York Times* published on the annual or biannual basis. The irregular series are published when a manuscript is chosen from a retrieval system in Anthropology or the Library Series.
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Attention Pre-Physical Therapy Students
There will be a meeting for all pre-physical therapy students
on
Thursday April 10, at 7:00 pm
in
Watkins Hospital Cafeteria
There will be a film about the Kansas Jaycees Cerebral Palsy Ranch and Summer job opportunities or volunteering for a week or so, will be discussed. We have planned a trip to the Capper Foundation, scheduled for the afternoon of April 17.
Anyone interested is urged to attend.
NO WONDER THERE'S
SO MUCH CONCERN
ABOUT THE DANGERS
OF FOOTBALL THE
TURKEY'S GONNA
YELL HIS LUNGS OUT!
AH,THE SWEET SOUND OF FIRST DOWN!
WHY DO YOU THINK
THEY CALL 'EM
"ASTEBUDS ANYWAY!"