Tuesday. March 25. 1980
University Daily Kansan
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KU professors to lobby for merit pay increases
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Reporter
With higher salaries for faculty members, Kansas Regents schools may soon face shortages of young professors to fill the vacant positions to the business and professional world.
Two University of Kansas professors will carry this message to Topaka today at the State University of Iowa Means Committee. They will be lobbying for nighttime salary increases for the university's faculty.
The two professors, T.P. Srinivasan, president of the KU chapter of the Association of American University of Tennessee, will try to convince the member of the KU Senate Executive Committee, will try to convince the committee members to raise their salary increase proposal to a figure closer to the Senate's proposed 10 percent raise.
THE HOUSE and Senate proposals will be blended when three members from the Senate meet in a conference committee in early April. The purpose of today's visit, Strimwasan said, was to see that the final document was as close to 10 percent as possible.
"It's going to be a compromise, but I hope that in a compromise that we don't lose," he said.
President Carter's recent announcement allowing wages to increase to 9.5 percent should help the faculty at a large university increase is too small, Stringrass said.
"It is no longer realistic. I hope that the conference committee won't go below that. We will certainly work for it," he said.
Members of the Senate were responsive to his appeals two weeks ago, Srinivasan said, approving a 10 percent merit salary increase.
"We were able to get our message across," he said. "Usually the Senate is more supportive of faculty salaries. They're at stake in terms of the funding."
"That's the kind of damage which can not be undone over night," he said. "The penalty will be paid by the younger generations in the years to come."
THE LOSS OF young and experienced professors would have an adverse effect on society, Srinivasan said.
Compensation for the needs of inflation might be enough to persuade faculty members to stay in education, he said.
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
Consumers check travel agency
Confusion caused by high employee turnover prompted an investigation by the University of Alabama into International Travel Service. Dan Dixon, spokesman for the travel service,
Consumer affairs decided to investigate the Roseville, Calif. company after Lawrence residents received letters and phone calls soliciting money for vacation
"We have hired a lot of new girls here and they don't really know what's on yet," he said.
The association became suspicious when the travel company resisted giving information to the consumer group, according to a report. The education publicist for consumer affairs.
Griekspoor said she had tried to call the company almost every day for two weeks. She said she had also talked with Dixon
Dixon said he had not received the messages to call consumer affairs from his office secretaries.
Friday about the association's investigation.
CONSUMER AFAIRIES has requested that the Kansas attorney general's office investigate the travel service, Griekspoor said.
"We have sent the request, but when I talked to the attorney general's office yesterday, they still had not received the request," she said.
Dana Brady, an investigator for the attorney general's office, has been consulted about the case by the Lawrence consumer group.
Another association concern was that the letters sent by the company were unsigned and contained very sketchny information, Griekspoor said.
The letters instructed readers to give
"It was sour fire for not clearing this whole thing up sooner." he said.
Beach, Fla.; the Catskill Mountains in South Fallsburg, N.Y.; and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
Bill Reynolds, customer services manager for the Lawrence post office, said he had not received a complaint letter.
The fact that the letters received by residents were unsigned was also an office staff mistake, Dixon said.
DIXSON SAID HIS company was revising the letters so they would clearly state what the $7.20 paid for.
The $7.20 pays for two nights of accommodations in one of five resort areas that hired the travel service to solicit business for them. Dixon said.
In addition to the $57.20, a $10 refundable deposit is required for all areas, Dixson said.
Back by Popular Demand at THE HAWK . .
GRIKEKPOOZ SAID that one consumer who had contacted consumer affairs said he was going to file a complaint with the post office about the travel service.
$5.20 to their postunit to pay for "handling and distribution costs." Within three days, the letters said, the readers would receive details and reservation forms for the trip.
"About the only thing he can do is send a copy of the letter and any other information about the company to the postal inspector in the town where the company is located," he said. "We usually advise a suit of 30 days for the company to reply to any charges."
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