Professors Feel Pinch of Minimal Salarv Increases
Editor's Note: This story, the first in a two-part series, examines the impact of minimal salary increases in the past several years on professors at the University of Kansas. Wednesday's story discusses how professors have meant for the professors. Hearings for the fiscal 1974 budget will start Thursday in the Kansas Legislature.
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
The professor who must pay rent, feed and cloth his family and send his children to school is facing hardships now because of appropriations for faculty salaries in the pax.
During the last several years, salary increases have been minimal or nonexistent. You are not sure that their money problems are not as great as they might seem and that
moral problems created by low salaries hurt more.
"It's really not something that I think about an awful lot," said Philip Pakhan, assistant professor of history. "What it means in my terms is that you don't buy a house just when you'd like to, or take a vacation when you want to. It's simply not having enough to do what you want when you want to do it.
"DON'T FEEL done in by the people of Kansas. I wish they were more generous. I don't feel resentment against the people of Kansas. I feel a little restful toward the legislature for not leading the people of Kansas a little more in that direction. It makes you less loyal, but you don't lay around saying, 'How can I get those guys?'"
grocery bills and at the end of the month, he said.
Palladian said his purchasing power was less than it had been in 1968 when he came to work with the company.
Other professors have to worry about sending their children to college, Paludan said, and this creates pressure to eliminate fees for faculty dependents and to increase salaries. Other staff members currently receive reductions in tuition costs, but fees are no eliminated.
HOWARD MOSSBERG, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said, "My wife tells me it just costs more to do the same things we've always done. I can't give a percentage or dollars-and-cents figure on what we've had to cut out.
"Over the last three or four years there hasn't been an individual around here whose purchasing power has increased with the rate of inflation. Several faculty members say the discrepancy has reached the point of being intolerable."
The decrease in purchasing power is felt
most acutely, Mossberg said, when it is time to replace a car or a major appliance that is several years old. Faculty members who work in the factory make of car they have now, he said.
A PROFESSOR IN THE COLLEGE of Liberal Arts and Sciences said, "We survive. It's as simple as that. I have two older brothers in different fields. Both have received larger degrees. They can change their style of living—have more expensive cuts of meat, dress better.
"But we're not at the starvation level. If you're not from a really wealthy background, that's perfectly okay. Teachers don't have to live that well. But it's a bad attitude that people think that teachers don't have to live that well."
By most people's standards, more income means that a person has higher prestige, and less faculty and low salary facilities indicate the
RAY HINER, associate professor of history and education, said that tight budgets had increased the percentage of his income spent on such essentials as food, clothing and shelter. Interest rates and housing costs have risen greatly, he said.
teachers are not as highly regarded as members of other professions.
"I needed more space, so I bought a house. But I had to spend a lot more for it than I would have several years ago," he said.
Hiner said that the decrease in purchasing power and standard of living during inflation happened: to everybody, not just to professors. It is hard to make long-term plans such as education for children, he said. He was on luxuries is not extremely difficult.
Teachers often find themselves unable to afford books in their field of interest. The teachers in the school district
one professor, who wished to remain unidentified. So if a faculty member does not buy the books, he is unable to keep abreast of his field.
HINER SAID he could not afford to attend as many professional meetings as he would like to. A trip costs between $150 and $200, a lot of money to a low-salaried person, he said. He said the University paid travel expenses for one meeting the faculty at the university had arranged; an instructor attending merely for his own edification had to foot the entire bill.
"I average one meeting a year," he said,
"I would like to go to two meetings a year because of my joint appointment, but I could give up something else and go."
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Influx of Bills Overwhelms Legislature
**TOPEKA (AP)**—A bill bizzard swept the Kansas Legislature Monday at the start of the sixth week of the 1737 session, promising to hold a hearing in January until the end of the session 7½ weeks away.
Shaking his head at an influx of 70 new bills in the Senate alone, President Pro Temp Robert Bennett, R-Overland Park, said, "If we have plans to we discuss to the future in this," he told.
The Senate bill total hit 402.
Another 48 bills were introduced in the House during the morning session, and that body was scheduled to go back into session late in the day for introduction of more bills.
Most notable of the Senate bills were two which would provide the mechanics for implementing the executive article approved by Kansas voters last fall.
The reason for Monday's glut was the deadline for introduction of individual members' bills. Committees still will be able to introduce bills until later in the session.
The Senate gave final approval to three bells and one concurrent sentiment and sent
The executive article provided four-year terms for four state officers and required the governor and lieutenant governor to run as a team.
Most controllive among those bills was one which would require livestock owners to submit to the county assessor each year a list of the livestock he owned or controlled by the preceding calendar year, providing an average value on that livestock.
The resolution approved would set an election on a constitutional amendment to provide county officers with four-year county commissioners with six-year terms.
Among those bills given preliminary approval was one to establish a statewide program of blood tests for sickle cell anemia.
The Senate also gave tentative approval to seven other bills, which will come up for fini firing in early January.
The Senate also advanced to final roll call vote today bills to amend the state's pest control act, to allow state banks to invest in stock of Minnibank Capital Corp., to provide money for minority banks and to provide special license plates for disabled veterans. The bank bill will go to Gov. Robert Docking if it passes today, the others to the House.
Kannan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
mercury will drop to the lower 30s today,
with a 50 per cent chance of light intermittent rain mixed with snow, then dropping tonight to the lower 20's, with a 50 per cent chance of light snow flurries.
Damp
Monday, this traveler, like many others, found the walk, on campus to be rather exciting.
U.S. Devalues Dollar, Raises Price of Gold
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States devalued the dollar by 10 per cent Monday night, the second drop in a little more than a quarter of its previous raging international currency crisis.
Treasury Secretary George Shultz, flanked by other top administration officials at a news conference, said President Nixon had approved the move and predicted that workers, consumers and businessmen would benefit.
Shults disclosed a number of other moves, including a floating of the Japanese yam, and the use of the Japanese yam's own market value. The German mark, another currency under intense pressure, is also the world's largest
The dollar was last devalued on Dec. 18, 1971, by 8.57 per cent against the price of gold. That devaluation, part of a worldwide downturn, became uninjured in the past two weeks.
Monday night's announcement was made as most of the world's major money markets had already been prepared to pressure on the dollar. In places where the market had opened earlier Monday, the dollar fell again in value, as it has during recent weeks, and markets are expected to open again Tuesday.
Schultz announced that the United States would phase out by the end of 1974 the use of nuclear weapons.
Shultz said other nations may make changes in the values of their currencies after announcement of the American devaluation. Such currency changes would have to be announced by the countries involved.
But he said it was likely that countries with floating currencies, such as Canada and Great Britain, would continue with the float.
Monday's devaluation was the second major change in world currencies since December 1987 when major non-currency adjustments need a currency alignment following a conference
As for the Japanese currency, the secretary said, the United States expects the yen will rise in value against the dollar over the 10-or-cent change.
Shultz announced that the United States would ask Congress for trade legislation that would lower trade barriers; raise tariffs on imported goods; and fair access to foreign markets; provide methods, such as import quotas, to guard against rapid changes in foreign trade, and to protect the United States from large and deficits in the balance of payments.
Although the effect of the U.S. devaluation is to make the dollar 10 per cent lower against other currencies, the effective change when viewed against gold prices is a little more than that because of the fundamental technical methods of figuring exchange rates.
Snail says the crisis should make other nations realize that speedy reform of the U.S. government is vital.
at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series dealing with the duties of KU's top student officers. Kathy Allen, vice president, talks about her work load. Tomorrow, Dave Dillon, president, discusses his job.
By JOHN PIKE
Kansan Staff Writer
Kathy Allen, student body vice president,
says the volume of her work is too much for
her to manage.
"Progress in the work of reform has been too slow and should move with a greater speed."
Allen: Demands of Job Hamper Effectiveness
The capital controls being phased out include the interest-equalization tax and money controls on direct foreign investments. Also, the Federal Reserve Board plans to驻 an voluntary program to restrain foreign credit.
Her job includes working on nine student and administrative bodies of the University in addition to the academic responsibilities of a student.
POWs Revel in Life Out of Prison
Allen, a Topeka junior, is director of the KU Reclamation Center and a member of the Student Executive Committee, the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Union Memorial Corp. and the chancellor search committee.
The dollar has been falling in value in recent days, and as a result, Americans traveling abroad found their dollar wasn't having as much as before.
Monetary experts from the big western nations had been searching for ways to halt the crisis. They were talking in terms of fiscal measures, such as bank and the Japanese yen revalued upward.
A total of 143 military and civilian prisoners flew away from captivity, 116 from North Vietnam and 27 from jungle prisons in South Vietnam. All but one, who was a U.S. sign-in hospital, were forded to this U.S. base for the first step on their way home.
She is a member of the University Senate, the Student Senate Committee Board and the Student Rights Committee. She is presiding officer of the Student Senate. All these duties are automatically assigned to the vice president of the student body.
CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP)—The first American war prisoners to gain freedom since the Vietnam peace agreement experimented Monday night with some pleasures of life outside Communist prison carsms.
The secretary said the United States was not obliged to intervene in foreign exchange markets to support the value of the dollar, as it had been doing in recent weeks.
Back under the U.S. flag, the POWs telephoned their families in the United States, tinkered with the TV sets in their cells, and used them as base Hospital and dured on stock and skes.
Only four of the 143 were sick enough to be brought back on beds. Many others looked pale and wan, particularly those released at Loc Ninh in South Vietnam.
THE LOC NNH POWs flew into Clark after their release was delayed 11 hours by
Left behind in North and South Vietnam and Laos are 419 other countries, mainly military personnel, who are scheduled to be moved more groups during the next six weeks.
a dispute between the South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong.
The commander of the Clark Air Base Hospital, Col. John W. Ord, however, told newsmen that the general physical condition of the personnel was good.
Those in the first group wolffed down ice cream, steak, corn on the cob, chicken and strawberry shortcake for their first meal in freedom. Most had requested—and got—more than either the bland dishes planned by doctors to ease their transition from prison life.
THE FIRST of four hospital planes, three from Hanoi and one from Saigon, ferried in 40 prisoners. It brought them from the North Vietnamese capital, where they had filed through a wire fence and moved 50 yards across the tarmac to board their
Gayler, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific,
During the 2½-hour flight, they appointed Navy Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. of Virginia Beach, Va., to express their sentiments to the cheering U.S. base personnel, families and newsmen on hand at Clark to greet them.
Gayler and LJ, Gen. William Moore Jr., commander of the 13th Air Force, stood on the runway to greet the men: 41 from the first plane, 39 from the second and 36 from the third, from Hanoi. They returned later to greet the 26 who flew in from Siau.
NEXT TO DESCEND from the C141 was Lt. Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr. of Santa Clara, Calif. The first American fyer who was in prison was a prisoner since Aug. 5, 1964.
"We are profoundly grateful to our commander-in-chief and to our nation for the success we achieved."
flight to freedom. Most walked aboard; a few were carried in beds.
"We are happy to have this opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances," Denton said as he stepped first from the plane.
The 27th prison released in South Vietnam after a day of waiting in the jungle best retained in an Army hospital at his request, the U.S. Embassy in Saigon said.
Alvarez walked with determined steps down the exit ramp and flashed a bread board to Mr. Gomez's eyes.
Arriving at Clark, the Air Force and Navy aviators from Hanel briskly emerged from the hangar.
The PRISONER was identified as Richard George Waldhaus, 25, of Pittsburg, Collin, a civilian with no known government affiliation was listed as captured Feb. 4. 1969.
The late-night arrival of the prisoners from South Vietnam contrasted sharply with the scenes in New York.
In addition, Allen serves voluntarily on the Student Senate's Transportation Committee and Student Services Committee. She carries a 14-hour class load.
Allen says she thinks that both Student Body President David Dillon, Hutchinson senior, and she do too many jobs to be as hard as they would like to be in any of them.
"I think David and I are spread too thin," he says. "Everything has been compromised."
"I think it's the responsibility of the president and vice president to see that the committees are meeting and that they are working," David and I have fallen down this year.
Allen says she believes a large part of the responsibility placed on the executive officers of the student body is the organization of students. The administration, particularly the standing committees,
"I see those two people as being coordinators," she says. "They are very much to blame if their committees are not functioning."
"That is the one area that I do not feel I was effective in, and that is because I perhaps let myself get too bogged down in it." "I can't look at the overall committee system."
The senate must provide leadership for committees that don't function properly, because of a weak chairman, improper communication or confusion about their roles, Allen says.
"It is important that the president or vice president take that role," she says. "You need to do that."
The senate has been marked during the past year by committees that did not meet, met once or twice in a semester or met but failed to function in an organized manner and consequently unstudied, confusing bills to the senate floor.
Allen says that such behavior should have been averted by action from the executive
Kathy Allen
officers. Either Dillon or herself should have acted personally or through the chairman of the Student Executive Committee to reorganize the problem committees and get them functioning again, she says.
Allen says one of the things she has had to learn to do as vice president has been to compromise her efforts in what she was doing
"I think that's one of the hazards of being in the position, and I think that's something that anyone who is in this position, if they want to effective, that's a lesson they
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