Regents Approve Salary Guidelines
By STEVE FRY
Kansas Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents approves Friday a plan to request a 10 per cent faculty salary increase from the Kansas Legislature for fiscal year 1976.
The salary increase was one of eight guidelines for budget requests that the regents approved. The guidelines also made suggestions for raising the salaries of classified personnel, increasing the minimum wage for employed students, increasing the budget, and determining the formula for adding or dropping faculty or class positions.
The legislative guidelines suggest 10 percent increases for faculty at each of the six state colleges and universities. This year's salary increase request is the second of a series to make Kansas faculty salaries comparable with salaries at other universities.
The guidelines suggest raising classified salaries according to approved civil service standards.
The six Kansas schools will ask for a 37.5 per cent raise for student employees to meet the federal minimum wage increase from $1.60 to $2.20 per hour.
Under regent guidelines, a request for a per cent increase over fiscal year 1975 for the first time has been accepted.
Faculty additions or losses for KU would be calculated on a basis of one faculty position added or dropped for the addition of a new faculty member, as well as guidelines. Kansas State University's ratio would be the same, while Wichita State University would have a 1 to 18 ratio. Fort Hays College, Kansas State College of Medicine, Kansas State College would have 1 to 20 ratio.
Faculty salaries would be figured at
$13,750 for KU and K-State, $12,300 for
Wichita State and $12,650 for Hays, Pittsburgh and Emporia.
The guidelines call for the universities to add or drop one classified position for every three faculty positions added or dropped. The ratio for the colleges would be one to four.
The universities would receive or lose $240 per full-time student for changes in enrollments. The college gains or loses $38,500 per semester, $15 at Pittsburgh and $21 at Hayward.
The guidelines recommend that other requests for program improvements be reviewed.
In other business, KU Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced two appointments: Joseph Pichler, former acting dean of the University of Pennsylvania; and Henry Snyder, former associate dean
for research administration, as dean for research administration.
The regents passed a proposal requiring the professional medical associations at the University of Kansas Medical Center to submit audits annually instead of every six months. Dykes said audits every six months weren't needed.
The regents allotted $10.581 to rebury the air conditioner unit in Blake Hall.
They also approved the preliminary planning for the visual arts and law buildings at KU. The director of the state architectural services division will be requested to proceed with the final drawings.
They also raised the yearly salaries for administrative heads of each university or college. The salaries are KU and K-State, $42,000; $42,000; and the three colleges, $43,000.
Wollmann Asks Senate For Health Fee Increase
Student health fees should be raised by $8.50 a semester, according to the Student Senate's health subcommittee and Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Hospital.
If the senate passes the recommended increase and the Board of Regents ap-
The increase is necessary to meet rising health costs and to provide better care with the new hospital, Wollmann said Saturday.
"It would be inconsistent for the students to build a first-rate hospital and provide second-rate services," Charile Rhodes, Olathe junior and chairman of the health status team.
The recommended increase will build the reserve fund only enough to protect against an epidemic or natural disaster. Wollmann said.
Wollmann said that for the last few years the health fee had been below the amount required to provide hospital services. Instead of raising the health fee, the hospital depleted a reserve fund of about $500,000. Now that the reserve fund is nearly gone, students will have to bear the cost of hospital services. Wollmann said.
Rhoades, the subcommittee reviewed the hospital's budget, said the recommended increase was comparable to nationwide increases in the cost of health care
the cost of in-state care.
The subcommittee hasn't decided what increase will be needed to date time students' health fees. Part-time students, those who are enrolled in six credit courses, will pay the full cost.
Forecast: Parly sunny and mild. High uncer 60s, low in the 40s.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Monday, April 22, 1974
Relays Concluded Amid Wind And Rain
106 KU Profs Promoted; 43 Sabbaticals Granted
See Stories Pages 6 and 7
The Kansas Board of Regents voted Friday to promote 106 University of Kansas faculty members and to grant sabbatical leaves to 54 faculty members, effective July
Twenty-nine faculty members at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and 77 faculty members at the Lawrence campus were promoted. Sabatian leaves were granted to four Medical Center staff members and 39 Lawrence faculty members.
The promotions for the Lawrence campus are:
To professor: John Alexander, history; Thomas Armstrong, physics and astronomy; Rolf Borchert, botany, physiology and cell biology; Gary Clark, education; John C. Davis, chemical and petroleum engineering; Michael J. Davis, law; George Duerkesen, music education; Carl Erickson, pharmacy; Marvin Fine, music; James Gum, music; James Gum, English; Charles Haacken, psychology; Charles Hoag, music therapy.
Rollie Houchins, special education;
Jadwiga Maurer, Slavic languages and
literatures; James D. McChesney, phar-
sopist; Richard B. Crawford; John F. McHil-
ford; Michel speech, drama; James
Smith to Be Associate Dean Of Engineering
Howard Smith, professor of aerospace engineering, has been appointed associate dean of the School of Engineering, William S. Eckert, professor of the School of Engineering, said yesterday.
Smith's new duties will include coordinating the school's recruiters, heading the program of career guidance and co-ordination with the college, with the high schools and junior colleges.
These duties had been handled by Elmo Lindquist, placement director of the School of Electrical Engineering, a professor of electrical engineering, who was in charge of school relations. Lindquist has decided to devote full time to the department and will hold a position in Holtzman will retire at the end of this year.
Moeeser, organ; Lynn Nelson, history; Walter O'Brien, civil engineering; Bobby Patton, speech and drama; W Keith Ritzer, Ritzer, sociology; Juellet Shaffer, psychology
Smith will take over his duties at the start of the fall semester.
Elizabeth Sherbon, physical education;
Lawrence Sherr, business; John Tolleson,
business; Wesley Unurh, physics and
anthropology; David Miller, sociology.
To associate professor: H. Leslie Adams, music education and music therapy. Frank Baron, German; John Bricke, philosophy; Donald Brownstein, philosophy; John Bushman, education; Kenneth Cogger, business; Dennis Daley, social welfare; David Dary, journalism; William Douglas, civil engineering; Charles Eidridge, history of cancer; Hunter Jarvis, Douglas Glasnapp, educational psychology and research.
Harold Godwin, pharmacy; Jacob Gordon, African studies; David Griffin, architecture and urban design; David Hargrove, education; Peter Herl, chemistry; G Cameron Hurst, history; E. Peter Johnsen, education; Diyonsis Koasn, history; Chuan-Tau Lan, aerospace engineering; Brunkook Lee, chemistry;
Gerald Magioria, biochemistry; Lois Mansfield, computer science; Douglas McKay, physics and astronomy; Philip McKnight, education Gerald Mikelson, Slavic languages and literatures; Walter Mikols, health, physical education and research; Jerry C. Moore, design Eileen Manson, health sciences; Gerald Magioria, biochemistry; Stephen Parker, Slavic languages and literatures; Nancy Peterson, education Roger Shimura, visual arts.
Jon Vincent, Spanish and Portuguese,
Donald Watkins, German; Joan Woyrick,
Jesse Mackenzie
To librarian III; Earl Gates, Ann Hyde,
Barbara Jones.
The promotions for the Medical Center are:
To professor: Earl Butterfield, pediatrics; Al Chapman, anatomy; David Cohn, biochemistry; Ziev Dickmann, gynecology and obstetrics; Rollie Houchins.
Russian Students Laugh At Kennedy's Questions
See FACULTY Page 5
MOSCOW (AP) - Sen, Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was met with silence, laughter and open hostility at Moscow State University yesterday, then was hustled
There is no public discussion in the Soviet Union of defense expenditures, and it apparently struck the audience as bizarre and funny that Kennedy would ask their
An elderly man in the audience angrily shook his fist at Kennedy and shouted,
"That question is a provocation."
The man then stood up and told Kennedy: "We spend as much on defense as our country requires."
Kennedy had asked the audience of Soviet university students and other spectators whether they thought Soviet military spending should be increased or decreased. His question was greeted first with silence, then with an explosion of laughter.
Obviously confused, the audience failed to respond.
Kenney, who often asks questions of his American student audiences, then asked the audience to vote by raised hands on which Soviet achievements they considered best.
After conferring with officials of the dais, an interpreter came over to the podium and announced that the senator had to leave because he was not feeling well.
But he was hustled out of the auditorium thereafter and taken to a meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromykov. Details of the meeting weren't disclosed.
A British professor who teaches at the university said a notice has been posted on the bulletin board last week that the speech was open to students and faculty. But he
was unable to attend.
Kansas Staff Photo by CARI DAVAZ
Wind Breaker
The Kansas University Relays, the state's annual rain dance, succeeded once again Saturday. Tina Kaneen, Des Plaines, Ill., senior, uses her umbrella to protect her from the wind, rain and hail. Despite the weather, which drove many of the fans to shelter, the Relays still produced action for the hardier fans. See stories on pages 6 and 7.
Senate Questions IRS Investigation Of Campaign Gift
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Watergate Committee's investigation of a $100,000 revenue service on the money bill, according to an informed source, Services as on the money bill, according to an informed source.
Committee investigators have uncovered what they consider to be questionable procedures in the IRS's own probe of billionaire Hughes' contribution. The money was given to President Donald J. Trump for the benefit of a private investment firm.
The questions were raised in a nine-page memo sent by the committee's assistant chief counsel Terry Lenzner on April 13 to committee members. The Associated Press has obtained
In a statement issued yesterday, the IRS said it wasn't IRS practice to discuss publicly any pending investigation or whether it was engaged in an investigation. The statement said:
Citizens Likely To Aid Police In 'Zebra' Case
The reserves will work only in stations and will not be involved in the highly criticized stop-and-search operation in operations last week in the case code named Zebra.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Reserves probably will be called in to augment the San Francisco police force which has been charged with killing the "Zebra" killers, officials said yesterday.
The reserve force would be composed of citizens who volunteer their time to serve as
More than 500 blacks have been questioned by police on the street and cleared since Thursday, producing no new leads in the case, officers said.
Police said several men were involved in the random slayings of whites. Twelve persons have been killed since last year, and six others have been wounded, four critically.
Some black leaders and others have challenged the right of police to question a man merely because he resembles the suspect.
Witnesses described one of the assaults as a slender, mustached black man between
Attorney Benjamin James Jr. said the police descriptions and sketches are vague and unspecific. He filed a class-action suit Friday in U.S. District Court to halt the mass questioning. A hearing on the suit is scheduled Wednesday.
"The IRS fairly denies that it has engaged in any cover-up regarding the committee's investigation and asserts that it has been cooperating with the committee staff to the fullest extent consistent with the disclosure limitations in the tax laws."
Lenzner's memo complained that the IRS had put "frustrating and debilitating roadblocks" into the committee's investigation of the contribution by refusing to turn over material uncovered in IRS' own probe.
Published reports have said that Nixon's former attorney, Herbert W. Kalmbach, told the committee that Kebazo informed him last April 30 that some of the money was given to Nixon's two brothers and to the Nixon family and to the Nixon brothers have denied this.
Lenzner's memo gives this account of the IRS investigation of the contribution:
The IRS learned in May 1972 that the money went to Rebozo but did not request an interview with him until fall 1972. That request brought no result, so a second request was made in the spring of 1973, and IRS interviewed Rebozo on May 10, 1973.
This was almost a year after IRS agents first learned Rebozo had the money.
Kansan Applications Are Being Accepted
Editor applications are due at noon
wednesday. Business staff applications are
due by 10:30 a.m.
Applications for summer editor and summer and fall business staff positions on the Kansan are available in Room 105 Flint Hall.
Editor interviews will be Wednesday afternoon, and business staff interviews will be on Saturday.
Flexibility to Highlight Arts Center
By TOM GAUME
Kansas Staff Reporter
The new Visual Arts Center may be the most flexible building on campus and also one of the most sophisticated, Allen Weichert, assistant director of facilities planning and operating, said Friday.
Preliminary plans for the new center, which were approved Friday by the Board of Regents, call for a structure built on the steel-frame system rather than on the conventional joist-and-beam system of construction,
Under the conventional system, joint-and-beam frames had to be constructed at the site before concrete could be poured. In the steel grid frame system, steel frames will be prefabricated and shipped to the site on trucks and set in place by crane. This will cut down on construction time, but the cost of building as strong as a conventional structure. Weichert said.
This method of construction, he said, will make the center the most flexible building on campus because the walls are made from a single material.
will look like permanent walls. They will be similar to the floors of Wescroft Hall, he said.
The visual arts department needs a flexible center because by its very nature, visual arts are creative and changing, according to Peter Thompson, associate director of the office and chairman of the printing and sculpture department.
Jim Roland, associate professor of fine arts and chairman of the design department, said detailed plans for a new campus were ready.
Weichert said, however, that by its very nature, the Visual Arts Center would be one of the most sophisticated buildings on campus. Unlike other academic buildings on campus, he said, the center will have to accommodate two departments, each offering a variety of courses such as jewery, silversmithing, lithography and sculpture.
"For example, you wouldn't want the photo lab near something like the sculpture studio because of the dust," he said.
Roland said courses that required heavy equipment such as sculpture and ceramics would have to be allocated
to the older part of the center, which would be in what is now Fowler Hall. Because of its strong structure and high ceilings, Fowler Hall will be ideal for such things as hoists needed in sculpture, he said.
The new center will occupy roughly the same area now occupied by the Mechanical Engineering building and the building built in 1912, which was built in 1913, will be torn down this fall, and Fowler Hall, which was built in 1948, will be reconditioned. Fowler Hall will be coordinated into the new building as part of the center, eliminating the road north of Fowler
The center will be three stories high on the north end, and one story will be added to Fowler Hall to make it 5 stories high.
The building will contain an art gallery, rear-projection
film viewing room, projection slide library, photography
hall, and exhibition space.
The total cost of the center is estimated at $5,750,700. Construction should begin in the spring of 1975, and the center should be ready in time for classes in the fall of 1977.