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Friday, February 16, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KU Professors Attest to Increasing Financial Crunch
By DANGEORGE
Kansan Staff Writer
"We had to have several people go on leaves of absence and one member of the faculty was on leave without pay. We even sent a colleague in an informal arrangement by the Haskell Institute."
When Grant Goodman, professor of East Asian Studies, described the salary problems his department faced as a result of financial cutbacks during the last fiscal year, a complaint that has become common on the University of Kansas campus.
Because of decreases in the total amount of fees paid by students and in the amount of funding available from the federal government and because of more rapid inflation and an increase in the expenditures, the number of faculty members, office, more than one department on the academic side has felt the financial squeeze.
The drop in federal funds has caused appropriations from the state of Kansas to
become even more important. KU showed no loss of state funds in 1972. But neither did it show a sizable gain.
Improving upon this situation was the major concern of representatives from the University when they appeared before the joint Kansas House and Senate Ways and Means Committee Thursday to present their budget request for fiscal 1974.
The departments of Western Civilization, economics, history, mathematics, Germanic languages, and physics and astronomy were among several departmentals that reported substantial decreases in funds spent in fiscal 1972 from fiscal 1971.
KU's overall operating expenditure, as shown by the University's financial report for 1972, was $51,638,626. Although this was a drop of $13,970 from the previous year's expenditure of $1,719,158, the actual increase is more than three-tenths of a percent from 1971.
In the report, the expenditures are broken down into three categories: salaries.
general expense and equipment and minor improvements. Only one of these, equipment and minor improvements, showed a loss. But it was a substantial one from $2,901,640 to $1,537,911, from the $347,849. Minor increases of $135,738 and $72,400 in salaries and general expense only partially offset it.
According to Ronald Hamilton, University Comptruppier, the drop was due in part to tighter budget controls established by the University in 1972.
"It was simply because of the tight money situation," Hamilton said. "The general expense increase was much larger to the classified employee increase granted last April.
"As far as salaries go, we can do one of two things, either freeze them or terminate some positions. We have much more flexibility and control of what we can do in equipment and minor improvements, and so we tightened up there."
"We're not in as good shape as we were several years ago," David Beard, professor of physics and astrometry, said. "Because of the cutbacks, some rather highly paid members took leave. And 'ne very good students' had to leave, cut our staff from 23 to 21 members, and three of those are extremely junior and lowly paid people."
decrease in tuition fees. Also, he said, a greater number of students are enrolling on only a part-time basis and thus are paying less.
And, despite the overall increase in trauma, often the place they were hurt the most was their back.
With the administrative offices showing an increase of $95,155 in expenditures in the last fiscal year, the academic departments must be alert to attract the most by the tight budget situation.
Prof Praises Writings Of Japanese Novelist
McCarthy told an audience of approximately 180 persons that Mishima was
Other than physics and astronomy, which showed a salary drop of $43,711, some departments that experienced major decreases in salary were anthropology ($32,498), chemistry ($44,857), economics ($41,169), history ($41,181), Germanic languages ($30,085) and mathematics ($30,017).
By ZAHID IQBAL
Kansan Staff Writer
uncarthy, who is writing his doctoral dissertation on modern Japanese literature for Harvard University, said that it was necessary to understand Mishima through his writings in order to understand the violent suicide by which he ended his life.
Paul McCarthy, acting assistant professor of oriental languages and literature, spoke last night at the Forum Room, in the Kansas Union on the life and works of Japanese writer Kafka. The Japanese novelist and playwright known to the world as Mishima Yukio.
McCarthy described this as Mishima's protest against all that post war Japan stood for and the constitution which forbade the raising of an imperial army.
Mishima's death caused widespread shock in Japan and the rest of the world when he publicly committed harakiri on November 25, 1970.
"Next year," Goodman said, "we expect no federal funds for East Asian grants. We have had federal support since 1989 under Title 6 in the next year. And with no federal funds, we're going to be forced to make some drastic changes."
McCarthy traced Mishima's early life as an adolescent writer, saying that his first major work was "Confessions of a Mask," which dealt with a young man's development and his tendency toward inversion, or homosexuality.
A primary reason is that an even greater percentage of federal funds appears invaptible.
proximately 170 miles by bushland and revival with New York" when he came to this country in 1962. Before returning to Japan, he left for a visit to Greece, for which he had only praise.
Mishima's works, McCarthy said, depicted beauty, strength, pain and violent death. His idea of heroic death may have originated in the early 1930s, an early death as a sign of favor from the gods.
John Landgrebe, professor of chemistry,
said his department might be forced to give
him a promotion.
The film, titled in Japanese "Yukoku," was written, directed and acted by Mishima. McCarthy commented on the film, which was based on an unsuccessful coup in 1936. He said that it was almost as if Mishima had decided to put on a uniform to do justice for the film; he depicts the self-execution Mishima chose for his own end.
But another reason for the slight exception was that there simply was less money.
The talk was followed by a brief discussion in which members of the audience participated. A film, "Rites of Love and Death," was also shown.
McCarthy said that Mishima had raised a private army "to defend the Emperor" in 1968, in the hope that this would be the model for a new imperial army. Because of his views, Mishima was accused of militarism, fascism and insanity.
and, according to many professors the situation is likely to make worse if it gets better.
It was a death, McCarthy said, that shook the world and inspired a book by Henry Miller, called "Reflections on the Death of Mishima." He said he thought Mishima was denied much of the credit due him because of his radical political stance, but that Japan would give him praise 50 years from now.
McCarthy read passages from the works of Mishina to illustrate the turbulence of thought and pathology of sexuality reflected in them.
for he wished to see Japan a martial nation as of old.
"At the end of this year, we will have lost two faculty members," he said, and "we've been given no indication they'll be replaced."
The financial report divides the funds into three sources—state appropriations, general fee and restricted funds. State appropriations increase by $19,685 in 1972, less than a per cent jump. The increase in restricted funds, which include both federal and private grants to be used for specific purposes, minuscule, from $19,384,486 to $20,088,819.
accounting the circumstances of his suicide, McCarthy said Mishina made an impassioned plea to a group of young officers to rise and form an imperial army, discarding both Marxism and materialism. This meeting was met by materialism itself, said Mishina decided to show the assembled officers what heMcCarthy said,
About this time, McCarthy said, Mishima became obsessed with the science of combat and the martial arts. His work reflected his revulsion for the new Japan,
He stabbed himself in the stomach and was beheaded by a follower in the next day.
Landgrebe said that the University was budgeted to have 23 fewer faculty members next year, and he expected 70 per cent of them to graduate from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
This, according to Hamilton was due to a shift in the in-state to out-of-student state ratio. Although the total enrollment at KU is about 62%, it means that students is dropping, which means a
There was a noticeable drop in the genes' fees, however, from $8,733,869 to
Salary, however, was not the only place the academic side was hurt. The big cut in equipment and minor improvements has adversely affected numerous departments.
"Some additional salaries will have to be picked up by the University because they'll be going off federal grants." Landgrabber Jeff Bass said the year. We haven't seen the bottom yet."
Perhaps hurt the most was physics and astronomy, which, according to the financial report, suffered a drop from $35,526 to $1,694.
"We have usually kept our stockroom well filled," said Bearden, "but in the last year we've had to let it go. Now we have to buy them again." Students buy them ahead of time at lower rates. Because of this, some graduate students aren't able to finish their experiments."
Gordon Wiseman, professor of physics and astronomy, said perhaps it was simply a matter of the different departments attempting to do too much with the funds they
"Maybe it's just our fault," he said. "Maybe we shouldn't be so ambitious." But, as Landgrebe told me, the University up each of the last five, the University up each of the last five, and liberal arts departments, such as
Salesman Returns Check After Magazine Sale
Wallace set Thursday that she and her suitesmates had purchased $13 worth of magazines from a salesman who was canvassing Naismith Hall.
"Originally we though it was for a good cause." she said.
At least one magazine salesman has recently refunded money after an order was withdrawn, according to Terry Wallace, Minneapolis, Kan., freshman.
The salesman said he was a Vietnam veteran who wanted to get a job selling insurance she said, and they had to evaluate how good the firm's terms to tell howood the salesman he was.
Wallace said that shortly after the salesman left, her suitmate's boyfriend told them of a story in Wednesday's Kansan about a complaint filed with the Consumer Protection Agency about high-pressure magazine salesmen in Lawrence. The complaint had been forwarded to the state attorney general's office.
chemistry and psychology, have especially increased.
"We were lucky and had 12 new faculty members in the last year," said Charles W. Barker, a professor of education enrollment increased 15 per cent in each of the last two years and has quadrupled over the last ten years. So, even with the faculty member's faculty-student ratio is still the same."
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said that he would not like to see the law changed. The University supports open admissions, he has achieved highly successful under the present policy.
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The salesman first tried to defend himself after he was shown the Kansan story, Wallace said, but eventually he did return the money.
Winter, who is a member of the Senate Ways and Means subcommittee on higher education, said that a proviso might be added to the present law that, under certain conditions, would give the regents restrictive power over enrollment at the colleges and universities.
Wallace said that they went to the salesman, who was still in Naismith but on a different floor, and asked him for their money back.
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