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Thursday, February 15, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Use of Library Fund Questioned
A report submitted to the Association of University Residence Halls (AUHR) has questioned the office of the Dean of Women about a $8,000 library fund administered by
The library fund has accumulated from a five-per-cent commission on money taken from vending machines in the residence halls.
In the report to AUHR Monday, John Beisner, Salma sophomore and AUHR treasurer, questioned the nature of some financial decisions he made in fiscal 1972. Beisner suggested that some of
In his report Beisner also alleged that funding inquiries made Feb. 8 by an unidentified Oliver Hall resident were stopped after a staff member from the Dean of Women's office said funds were not available for Oliver.
the expenditures might not have been made in the spirit of the fund.
Beiser's report stated that the fund contained $8.19 as of 19, 2017.
In a reply to Alex Thomas, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, senior and AURH president, Emily Taylor, dean of women, denied that her office had ever turned down a fund
Taylor's reply also said a central library had been created in 220 Strong Hall for use by all students. Her reply stated that many of the expenditures questioned by AURH were made to provide books and periodicals for this library.
request.
In a statement Wednesday evening, Thomas said that communications between AURH and the Dean of Women's office were broken. And because that AURH intended to pursue the matter.
Copies of Beisner's report were also made available to the members of the Ad
ministrative Housing Board: William Ballour vice chancellor for student affairs; Donald Alderson, dean of men; J. J. Wilson, housing director; and Taylor.
The five-percent centending machine rebate has been administered differently by the offices of the dean of men and the dean of for many years, according to Adelson.
Austere Budgets Reduce . . .
Taylor said her office request each of the residence halls to place its five-per-cent rebate from the vending machines into a account under the jurisdiction of her office.
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service, said the film budget had been reduced.
"This doesn't affect our office, but the whole campus. We don't have the funds to fill film requests, and teachers are limited," he said.
Two-thirds of the film budget for the year was spent last semester, Wulfuhke said. He said films that were not available in the film library had to be rented, and because the budget had been cut, cutbacks had to be made in filling rental requests.
The audio-visual department also has decreased the number of student employees. Wulfkulea said projector operators were able to perform most of the film show, and return it to the library.
The buildings and grounds department is extended beyond the capacity of the physical plant, McGregor said. The department employs no more people than it did its years ago, and the employees are well trained to maintain buildings and laboratories.
Laboratory maintenance once paid for by buildings and grounds, is accomplished by funds allotted to individual departments, he said.
Anginso said trash barrels go unempressed for days. "Kansans have a hell of an in vestment in these buildings, but they're letting them go to hell."
Bobby R. Patton, chairman of the department of speech and drama, said his department had cut back subscriptions to professional journals.
"Any departments that have less to spend have less to spend on printing," he said.
Departments also have reduced the number of publications or have produced fewer books.
William Smith, director of the printing service, said he had noticed some cutback in the amount of printing done for departments.
The printing service also does work for the University Press, a publishing venture not as restricted by budget cuts, Smith said. This has minimized the slack from the reduction of work from departments, he said.
The printing service in the past has printed both a preliminary and a final commencement program, Smith said, but because the commencement program will be printed this spring.
Smith said departments had cut printing costs by publishing smaller issues or by publishing less often. The amount of color used in these designs have been cut back also, he said.
The service no longer publishes the University Directory. Plains Publications in Labbock, Tex., publishes the directories free of charge in return for the opportunity to sell advertising. Catalogs are now printed on a newsprint instead of offset paper, Smith said.
He said some departments used duplicating typewritten form instead of writing.
"It's less beautiful, but it's functional," he said.
One professor said his department could not afford to publish brochures advertising its academic program and distribute them at other schools.
Instructors find that the format of courses is less than desirable. A main reason for this is that departments cannot afford to hire instructors in order to provide an instructor instructors to teach lab courses.
Kiesler said he would have liked to have made Psychology it a lab course, but the high enrollment and lack of instructors prohibited him from doing so.
Angino said computer costs had been cut
"across the board." Students writing theses must be for computer time, he said.
All deans and department chairmen are faced with the threat that their ablest faculty members will leave KU for higher paying positions. Clifford Clark, dean of the School of Law, said Frank Rialty, who, he said, was one of the best professors in the Business School.
Deterioration in the quality of the faculty results in substandard education for students and difficulty in soliciting federal funds and research grants. Clark said.
There is reason to believe that the financial situation will ease somewhat.
Katz said he foresaw one more tight year, the 1973-74 academic year, when the number of full-time faculty positions must be decreased by 23.5 because of the decrease in enrollment. He said he did not believe that students were distributed, but he assumed that schools having enrollment increases would not be affected.
"I have great faith in our administration of the University," he said. "By your sound management policies, plus what seems to be greater support by governmental officials and, hopefully, the legislature, the situation will improve in the near future."
The budget should increase slightly next year. Gov. Robert Docking has recommended that KU receive $48,743,306 for the next year, compared to $48,933,793 this year.
This amount includes a supplemental appropriation of $798,200 to cover increases in Social Security costs and to make up for the loss of fees stemming from this year's supplementary appropriation. The supplementary appropriation already has been approved by the Kansas Senate.
Most of the budget increase will come from an increase in student fees, not from the state's general fund, however. Student loans that are part of the state's $9,550,000, but the state's allocation is
the general fund will rise only by $44,069 if the governor's recommendation is adopted, from $25,097,252 to $25,543,321. The remaining $12,606,774 allocated to the University is expected to remain unchanged.
Chancellor Raymond Nichols has said that the supplemental appropriation should allow him to restore the 10-per-cent cutback in the supply and maintenance budget and to end the freeze on the hiring of faculty members.
The budget granted no increases for extension and research, except for the Geological Survey. This will mean that the budget should be to be curtailed because of rising inflation.
Docking has endorsed a request by the Board of Regents for a 5.5-per-cent increase in faculty salaries and a one-step increase for classified emplovers.
The proposed budget should allow the University and individual faculty members to barely keep pace with inflation during the coming academic year. It will not, however, make up for the loss created by the austere budgets of the past.
Nor can the slight increases in state funding compensate for the anticipated loss of "soft" money, which supplements the state's allocation. This could prove to be the state's long-term loss for individual departments and for the long-range quality of the University.
Correction
The Kansas incorrectly reported Tuesday that dependents of staff members receive reductions in tuition fees. Not all dependents receive fee reductions. A depend who normally would pay non-resident fees is entitled to a reduction to the resident fee level. A dependent normally paying resident fees has no reduction in fees.
Alderson said that for at least five years the eight residence halls under his jurisdiction had put the vending machine in their place, each hall in the University business office.
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"I see no reason for the two offices to manage the vending machine funds the same way," Taylor said. "I would be appalled if the funds are done by the dean of men."
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