University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Thursday, April 23, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 138 USPS 650-640
Increase in tuition questioned
By GENE GEORGE Staff Renorter
Two members of the Lawrence delegation to the Kansas Legislature may agree to ask for an attorney general's opinion on the legality of a 22-month sentence. The Senate approved last week by the Board of Regents.
After hearing that State Rep John Solbach, D-Lawrence, was interested in seeking Attorney General Bob Stephan's opinion, Bert Coleman, KU student body president, called the lawnmaker.
A meeting of Coleman, Solbach, State Sen. Jane Eldridge, R-Lawrence, and possibly student body presidents from Kansas State University or Wichita State University has been arranged for Monday at Solbach's Lawrence law office.
The Regents, faced with a $9 million cut in state funding, were pleased to highlight the signature of 11 percent of 35 percent plate interest.
INSTEAD, THE 'REGENTS' passed a 22
chair. The Regent's report upset the
Regents Student Advisory Committee.
The SAC asked for an attorney general's opinion, claiming that the Regents could not pass a fee increase without first issuing a financial impact statement.
State law, however, bars anyone other than an elected state or local official from asking for an
Sobach, who opposed the fee increase, said the students might not be treading on firm legal advice.
It's a good point, but probably not enough to
board could very easily take care of that.
John Conard, executive director of the
student council at the University, said that the student's
claims had no legal standing.
HE SAID THE board's policy of issuing financial impact statements could be changed any time because it was neither a state law nor a state regulation.
"It this case, the impact of a 22 percent in-
terest in students," he said. It means it's im-
portant to get students more involved.
Gov. John Carlin, who opposed the fee increase, said at a news conference yesterday that there had been "a lack of thorough study" of such an increase.
But Carlin said he was not in a position to influence the Regents.
Coleman said the Legislature was not bound to return the full 80 percent increase to the Regents
Just because we get taxed 22 percent doesn't mean we will get back 22 percent," he said. "I just pray that they give us back the 22 percent. I honestly don't think they will."
HE SAID IT was possible that some of the students he brought on road construction or other center projects.
Joob bingaman, executive director of Associated Students of Kansas, said that since the Regents action, several lawmakers had shown an interest in seeking Stephan's ruling.
"We have not ruled out court action on this, either," Bingaman said. "Depending on where we stand after we get the attorney general's opinion, we could try to get a restraining order to bar (the Regents) from assessing the fees until legal questions can be cleared up."
ASK's fight against the fee increase is part of today's National Student Action Day. Students will be asked to write letters to state and national educators, including a student Reagan's proposed cuts to higher education.
ASL also WILL ASK Kansas students to inform state lawmakers about their displeasure with the fee increases. Tables for the write-in campaign will be set up at the Kansas Union and at Wesco Hall by ASK and the United States Student Association.
Sobach said, however, that before he would be sent to attorney general, he would carry out his duties.
"If it is clear that the rules were not violated, I should be in an attorney general's office be said," he said.
Asking for an unnecessary opinion could only cause more problems, he said.
THE TUITION INCREASE would increase fees between $66 and $124 a year at different Regents schools and would raise an additional $9.2 million next year.
See SOLBACH page 5
Weather
It will be mostly clear today with a high of 70, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be out of the west to northwest at 8 to 12 mph.
Tonight will be clear with a low of 51. Winds will be out of the northwest at 8 to 12 mph.
Tomorrow will be partly to mostly clear with a high in the lower to middle 70.
The statue of Icarus, the mythological Greek who tried to fly to the sun with wings of wax and feathers, stands on West Campus in front of Nichols Hall. Icarus did not reach his destination but fell to the earth when his wings melted from the sun's heat.
Profs here earn little from consulting
Bv DAN BOWERS
Staff Reporter
Income from consulting provides only a small amount of extra income for KU professors, according to a recent report of the KU chapter of the American Association of University
The report, which surveyed 76 faculty members in all departments of the University, indicated that the average faculty member at KU received his income by only 1 percent from copublishing.
The report was compiled in response to legislative claims that consulting allowed faculty members to significantly supplement their income.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said at a recent meeting with the AUAP that low appropriations for faculty salary increases were due, in part, to the opportunities that faculty members had to engage in outside consulting and training with faculty building a book or giving speeches and workshops.
HESS CITED a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education that said faculty members nationwide augmented their incomes by an average of 21 percent through consulting.
Robert Hohn, professor of educational
psychology and research and chairman of the Kansas chapter's committee on the economic status of the profession, said some legislators had said there were faculty members supplementing their income by 50 percent from consulting sources.
Faculty membershoping for substantial salary increases say such attitudes make them ner-
"There was a lot of speculation going on in newspaper accounts and in statements by the legislators," Hohn said. "We wanted to find out what the real evidence was."
The report lists figures that are much lower than those cited in the Chronicle or in the Table.
From the 78 faculty members sampled, the report determined that the average consulting income for KU professors accounted for only $200 a year, or about 1 percent of the average faculty member's $25,900 salary for the academic year.
THE REPORT SAID that only 4 percent of the customers paid more than $5,000 from outside consulting sources.
Outside consulting sources listed by the report included: contracts with private industry and federal and state agencies, textbook royalties and fees for editing books.
Hohn said that the chapters report could not
Although local AAUP members say they are hopeful that the report will give legislators an accurate indication of how much income a faculty member earns from outside consulting. Hohn conceded that the findings might be too little too late.
be directly compared to the Chronicle's survey, which sampled 4,800 faculty members nationwide, because the Chronicle's survey included administrative assignments and teaching during summer and evening sessions in the computation of extra income.
The Legislature reconvenes Wednesday for two weeks to close this session, and appropriations for salary increases appear to be firmly set at a 7 percent increase. That figure is short of what faculty members say they need to keep pace with inflation and short of what University officials say they need to keep those professors at the University.
The consulting survey is part of a comprehensive report prepared by the Economic Status Committee that compares faculty salaries and fringe benefits at KU with 23 other universities. The report will be distributed at next Thursday's meeting of KU's AUP chapter.
Although Hohn would not say what the comparison figures for salaries between KU and other institutions were, he would say that KU ranked "very, very low."
KUAC board may request fee increase
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
"No decision has been made," Marcum said. "But we are thinking along those lines."
A $1 increase in student fees may be included in a budget proposal for fiscal 1982 presented to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and the Athletic Director Bob Marcum said yesterday.
Marcum said that the athletic budget office had not arrived at a specific amount it would ask for but that the department hoped to be able to provide $400,000 in students fees for non-revenue sports.
Each KU student now pays $1.50 a semester, giving $8,000 in total student fees to help fund her education.
MARCUM SAID THAT he knew the proposed increase might be unpopular with students but that the future of non-revenue programs depended on some kind of funding increase.
"We don't have any choice financially," he said. "We have to come up with the funding. You look at the alternatives. I just don't know what we're going to do."
He said the fees, if approved, would only be used for non-revenue sports.
For non-revenue support to survive, Marcum said, more financial support must come from the Treasury.
"The commitment for intercollegiate athletics must come from the University, in terms of money and human resources," he said. "The financing of intercollegiate athletics is full of speculation anyway. To rely on contributions for one-third of the budget just adds to that."
MONEY FROM THE Williams Educational Fund, donated by alumni and others, is used to finance nearly all athletic scholarships. The fund account for nearly 33 percent of the total budget.
"We've been lucky, so far, that friends of the
alumni have alumni been very good to
Marcum said.
But he added that fluctuations in the amount of contributions often were directly related to the records of the football and basketball teams, the records of the high school teams, and predict so far before the beginning of the season.
THE ADDITIONAL fee is among a number of fees charged according to Acting Claimant Pet. Scherker
without increased funds, Shankel said, the department would be forced into cutting more programs from a budget that is already the seventh smallest in the Big Eight.
If there was an identifiable culprit in the fiscal fiasco now being faced by hundreds of university athletic departments, Marcum said it would be inflation.
"It doesn't make any difference if you have an $11 million budget or a $4 million one," he said. "You can't keep up with inflation. What options do you really have? Do you raise ticket prices?"
A ticket-price increase suggested by the department was approved at the February
See FEES page 10
Winn receives fine, probation for drunken driving arrest
Staff Reporters
By TIM SHARP and MAJID ALI Staff Reporter
In a surprise move, Rep. Larry Winn Jr.
for drowned people in Douglas County a day early.
Winn, whose court appearance originally was scheduled for this morning, pleaded guilty to one cheating charge.
He was fired $175 plus $10 court costs and placed on probation in lieu of a 30-day jail sentence. He also was given a one-year restriction on his driver's license prohibiting him from operating a motor vehicle within 24 hours of consuming an alcoholic beverage.
Winn, a 15-year veteran of Congress, also faces possible action from the Kansas Department of Revenue for refusing to take a breathalyzer test and a blood-alcohol test after his arrest.
Refusal to take a chemical test can cause revocation of a driver's license unless a Department of Revenue hearing finds that the driver had good cause to refuse.
A KANSA Highway Patrol trooper arrested Win, 61, at about 10:30 p.m. Monday six miles east of Lawrence on K-10 Highway after seeing the Congressman's car weave across the center ramp of a subway station. Both tests and failed to pass a sobriety test of wailing a straight line. Winn has an artificial leg.
See WINN page 10
'Victory Highway' of 1920s serves communters of 1980s
By PAM HOWARD
Staff Reporter
One section of Highway 40, 24 feet wide and 20 miles long, snakes its shiny coils across the rolling farmland between Lawrence and Topeka.
This section of the highway was part of the World War I Memorial Victory Highway, which stretched 450 miles across Kansas and 3,700 miles across the country.
This section remains the best preserved part of the Victory Highway, the first paved highway across the United States. The Victory Highway was built from San Francisco to San Francisco and was built in the early 1920s.
Now it carries 3,500 cars and trucks daily
from Tampa to Topeka and is primarily a commuter highway.
FROM THE STULL ROAD turnoff, four miles
Springs, the road seems to have changed little
from its former state.
since it was built on routes once used as trails westward.
Bill Howard, project development engineer for the Federal Highway Administration, said documents seemed to indicate that sharp, right angle curves were made less sharp in the early '50s, but that that was the only major work ever done on the highway.
Howard said that even though the highway was much longer in the '20s, Highway 40 was dangerously
"From a safety standpoint, it's really not that bad right now," he said. "A good, two-lane road will carry about 5,000 (vehicles a day) before you start having much trouble."
In 1979, "chevron signing" was installed on the curves, an effort that significantly lowered the
A CHEVRON SIGN is a 24-inch by 38-inch yellow sign with a black chevron, or arrow, in the center, pointing in the direction of the curve.
See HIGHWAY page 5
MARK MCDONALD/Kansen staff
With his face full of concentration and determination, Donnie Elliott, Eureka sophomore, takes a ride on a mechanical bull as part of a contest sponsored by the Phi Glamma Delta fraternity and the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Proceeds from the contest will benefit the March of Dimes.