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KU Asks Regents for $128 Million Operating Budget
Kansan Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes asked the Kansas board of Registers yesterday for an operating budget of $1 million.
The total includes general revenue fund app-riplication requests of $37,949,005 for the Lawrence campus and $86,844,730 for the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The total budget request for KU was $6.13 million and for the Medical Center was $6.6 million.
The requested state funds represent 67.1 per cent of the Lawrence campus budget and 40.3 per cent of the Tampa school budget. The requested from student fees, sponsored research, physicians' fees, parking fees and other specifically related expenses.
Of the $2,693,000 capital improvement request,
$2,278,000 would be supplied from the general
revenue fund and $415,000 would be supplied from
the Educational Building Fund.
TOP PRIORITIES listed by Dykes included
development and support of the computing center
($1,089,728), improvement of library facilities
($150,000) and the maintenance and repair of scientific equipment ($500,000).
"There's no way we can carry on the administration of the university without computer support," Dykes said. "It is also essential in teaching aspects of the university." he said.
"Because inflation has consumed most of this year's increases, it is vitally important that we reduce it."
Dykes also urged the Regents to implement the second year portion of the program designed to raise faculty salaries to a level comparable with similar institutions.
PRESIDENTS of the six major colleges and universities presented their budget requests at the meeting. Dykes justified the KU's budget request for the size and responsibility of the University.
'Our request does not seem out of proportion when you take into consideration one out of three
students attending a college or university in the state is attending KU," he said.
Dykes said KU was listed as one of 37 universities in the country termed "national resources." He said KU had a responsibility to uphold the quality of education and the curriculum, should be more available if the request were granted.
Dal Shankel, executive vice-chancellor, said that taking into consideration inflation and growth, KU was about $5 million worse off in 1973 than it was in 1968. Dal Shankel explained the list of priorities to the Regents.
According to Keith Nitcher, vice-channeler or business affairs, action by the Board of Regents on the budget requests will be made public soon, possibly within the next few days.
DR. WILLIAM O. RIKEE, vice chairwoman for health affairs, said salary increases and operating expenditure increases were the principal priorities of the Medical Center.
Medical Center, a request that has never been made before.
"The research request is a compilation of grants to national foundations applied for by our staff," he said. "The foundations have approved them, indicating some justification for the expenditure, but they don't have the money to support them. We just added them up."
When questioned about the recent strike at the Medical Center, Rieke said wages were controlled by state Civil Service regulations. He said he had submitted evidence to the state suggesting adjustment of the wages because of geographical cost of living differences. He said he was sympathetic to the needs of the staff but couldn't act until the regulation was changed.
ACTIONS concerning the Kansas City Medical Center included the establishment of a gift shop at the Medical Center. "All profits," according to the Medical Center, will be used for the betterment of the Medical Center.
Another action excluded the University of Kansas
Medical Center's Student Center and Student Center apartments from the requirement of paying utilities. The postgraduate medical education department occupies rent-free space in the Student Center and the Student Center Auditorium at no cost to the state.
The Medical Center will also be acquiring 10 land lots located in Muehlenbeach Place in Kansas City, Kan. with funds appropriated by the 1974 legislature. The lots are owned by the KU Endowment Association and are being sold to the Medical Center at the same prices quoted in 1965.
THE CONSTRUCTION BUDGET for the large clinical facility planned for the Medical Center was amended by the Regents because of increased costs and labor in the structure. The steel bids totaled $85,850.00.
The student health fee schedule for part-time students was amended because of an error in transcription. The fee was increased to $5.50 an hour each semester.
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84th Year, No.151
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kane
Kaman Staff Photo by DEBBIE GUMP
Steve Tracy, Galesburg, Ill., and Ladonna Hale, Emporia, pay close attention to their teacher during a lecture in a journalism class Tuesday. Tracy and Hale are attending the Midwestern Journalism Camp for high school students.
Concentration
Residents to Be Billed Extra $25
Benciveng, however, said he first mentioned a possible deficit in an August meeting with J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories; proctors; presidents; resident clerks; and staff. He said then that halls should vote on whether to cut spending or pay a surcharge.
STEPHENSON RESIDENTS, according to David McKinley, Kirkwood, Mo., senior and 1973-74 protor, weren't notified of a specific deficit until February.
Grace Pearson, Pearson and Battenfeld, the three other scholarship halls, voted to pay a surcharge. Stephenson didn't vote at that time.
By LOU ANN LEE Kansan Staff Reporter
About $25 more than the amount specified in the 1973-74 contracts will be billed to each of the 1973-74 residents of Stephenson Place, and all employees assistant to the dean of men, said Merrill.
The committee of scholarship hall residents that drew up carpets for 1973/74 planned that hall residents would use $1 a day per man for food.
None of the scholarship halls stayed within the budgeted amount. Stephenson the largest deficit, about $35. The House agreed to pay $10 per person toward the deficit.
The hills cover the amount that the hall overspent on its food budget. Bencivengo said residents who didn't pay wouldn't be offered contracts for the fall. However, many hall members think they should not have to pay the surcharge.
Bencivengo said a food budget increase was mentioned at contract meetings, but students turned it down.
McKinley said he didn't remember receiving instructions to vote on the issue during the campaign.
In December, a resident of one of the other halls told Bencivengo that he wouldn't pay the surcharge because it wasn't in his contract, and he hadn't voted for it.
Bencivengo consulted Charles Oddtanner,
university attorney, who told Bencivengo
that it might not be possible for a majority vote to alter individual contracts.
When students returned for spring semester, Benciveng told them they must vote unanimously to make up the deficit or cut spending so that they would be within the regular budget by the end of the semester.
Battelfeld voted to pay. Grace Pearson, Pearson and Stephenpson decided to cut
However, during February, the first month of lowered spending, Stephenson
Some students criticized the University because it didn't take more control when excessive food costs became apparent, Bencivengo said.
He said he probably should have eliminated snacks at Stephenson, where residents voted to keep an open kitchen while they were trying to cut spending.
costs rose more than 20 cents a day per man.
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Nixon Meets Allies NATO Members to Sign Document
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - President Nixon, arriving for talks with Atlantic allies, said last night his presence here between trips to the Middle East and Moscow symbolized NATO's central role in the pursuit of peace.
Nixon, welcomed at a formal airport ceremony by Belgium's King Baudouin, said that without NATO it was doubtful with the Soviet Union would continue.
Nixon and leaders of 14 other NATO member countries today will sign a compromise declaration of principles armed at the border, with cooperation among the allies.
In addition, Nixon and Kissinger will have private talks with new leaders of Britain, West Germany and Italy.
As the President and Mrs. Nixon nife here, however, a high White House official
House Judiciary Votes To Release Evidence
Committee chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., left unclear when the material would be released and exactly how much would be made public.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to make public a massive volume of evidence presented to its impeachment inquiry.
Rodino said he hoped all of the material to be released would be published by July 15, when the committee is scheduled to begin debating proposed articles of impeachment. He said it was possible some of the material would be released as early as next week.
The committee voted 22 to 15 in favor of a motion that called for release of all the evidence, except for classified material pertaining to the secret bombing of Cambodia and other evidence that Rodino and the ranking Republican, Rep. Edward Hutchinson of Michigan, agreed should be withheld.
Rodino refused later to specify what standards he and Hutchinson would use in determining what material should be kept secret.
He said repeatedly that he favored deleting material that was not relevant.
Rep. Wayne Owens, D-Utah, moved to release immediately all of the evidence except classified material. His proposal was approved by a committee, 14 to debate the issue behind closed doors.
Rodino supported the closeout season in the grounds that the evidence still was
State Doctor Shortage to Worsen
He said that because the Medical Center started the accelerated three-year medical school program three years ago, the class this year was twice the size of the usual graduating class. Many members of the class stayed in the state to do their internship, he said.
By CARLA GUMP
Kansan Staff Reporter
According to Dr. William O. Rieke, vice chancellor for the Medical Center, about 2,600 physicians are in active practice in the state. He said recently that of this number, about 1,200 are in primary practice and includes internal medicine, pediatrics and general family practice.
The doctor shortage in Kansas will get worse before it gets better, according to Charles Brennan, assistant vice-chancellor of the University of Arkansas.
Brennan said recently the shortage was mainly in the western part of the state. He said Kearny and Wichita counties had no medical personnel.
Dr. Martin Wollmann, director of the KU student health service, said there was a shortage of doctors, but the shortage was actually a lack of physicians in certain areas of the state. He said Kansas had a big need for family physicians.
Rieke said that a survey conducted by the Kansas Regional Medical Program showed there was a need for 240 more doctors every year in Kansas. The greatest number are needed in general family practice, he said.
MEDICAL STUDENTS in the preceptorship program spend six weeks during their senior year working with a physician in a Kansas school.
"Kansas was one of the leaders in starting the preceptorship program to get doctors out in areas of the state," Wollmann said.
Dr. David Hiebert, 138 Providence Road, said a combination of more graduating medical students and more emphasis on family
Dr. Ralph Reed, 803 Avalon Road, said surveys conducted by five government agencies on the subject reached different conclusions ranging from a surplus of 30,000 doctors to a shortage of 50,000 doctors nationally.
Wollmann said it wasn't surprising that there were differing views on the number of doctors needed. The kind of survey conducted and the ratios used differed so much that every group could come up with a different estimate, he said.
The official said Nixon and Soviet leaders would first have to reach agreement on where they want to go and that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may have to make a post-summit trip to Moscow to keep any momentum going.
According to Reed, many doctors preferred more sophisticated city surroundings because they were specialists and saw no need for a hospital.
practice by the medical school would help ease the shortage of doctors.
"It was scheduled last year; we had no reason to cancel. It had to be held. If we did not go to the summit we would be saying we are not a functioning government."
"Often, the more you educate a physician, the less happy he will be in a rural area," he said.
Newsmen on Nixon's plane were told the President would outline his view of the NATO alliance at today's meeting, to be followed by a general discussion.
covered by committee rules of confidentiality and that it would be impossible to discuss its release without referring to its substance.
MANY DOCTORS spend a great number of hours in non-medical counseling. Reed said, such as marriage counseling and other forms of personal counseling. He said this took time away from medical treatment of patients.
aboard his plane told newsmen that a permanent American-Soviet agreement on limiting offensive nuclear weapons would be implemented by the Moscow summit that begins tomorrow.
Speaking of the timing of the third annual American-Soviet summit, the official said:
A NATO official expressed doubt, however, that the formal summit would be much opportunity for give-and-take since it should be conducted in a session scheduled for only two hours.
Reed said the proposed national health insurance program would cause a 120 per cent increase in the use of health services among adults.
The official on Nixon's plane acknowledged Watergate posed problems in the pursuit of American foreign policy and represented an attack on central authority.
Asked whether the same rule would apply to the list of witnesses to be called, Rodino said that would depend on whether the committee voted to release the evidence. If it did, he noted, the need for continued secrecy would end.
The new department of family medicine at the Medical Center was formed to let students know the general physician is a valued member of the medical team.
Kansas' problem was no worse than that of any other state in the Midwest, according to Bremman. He said Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska were the worst states on the list.
Brennan said the three-year program would complete the student's education sooner but wouldn't increase the number graduating every year. He said the size of the class w...id still be 125 to 140 each year.
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Lawrence is served by more than 30 Kansas, particularly the west, are surnuring physicians, including Dr. Bertha Bell of the OHSU School of Public Health, other health professionals.