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the groups that asked for an increase and the students," Abbott said. "I think the letters showed the chancellor that this increase was not being rammed through by one or two people, but was something that the average student wanted."
The fee will be divided into the following allocations:
- Recreation Advisory Board, $2.55
* University Daily Kansan, $3.
* University Theatre, $1.14.
- University Concert Series, $1.16.
- Chamber Music Series, 18 cents.
* KU Bands, 60 cents.
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* KJHK-FM Radio, 38 cents.
* Legal Services Program, $1.97.
* Associated Students of Kansas, 40 cents.
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* Other Student Organizations, to be allocated in spring budget bearings, $1.42.
* Unallocated Account, to be allocated during
Research director says transfer of funds legal
- Unallocated Account, to be allocated during fall supplemental hearings, 28 cents.
Confusion over the relationship between the University of Kansas and Parsons State Hospital led to unfounded allegations in the Legislature, and the director of the KU program at the hospital.
Staff Reporter
Bv BRAD STERTZ
Richard Schleibuchl, director of the KU Bureau of Child Research, said the charge of Dr. Schleibuchl was to ensure
Passengers gain from airline bumping; student gets free spring break trip
"We ended up making money off spring break." Fash said.
Many air travelers have found they can profit from overbookings. Compensation varies depending on ticket price and length of lay over, duties, fines, invoices, and passengers with confirmed reservations must meet guidelines set up by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
Bill Fash, Bob Roton, Fla., senior, accepted the airline's $349 to offer get over the offloaded flight and receive a first-class seat on the plane in some same destination. His original ticket cost $230.
"They have to put you on the next flight if you are involuntarily bumped," he said. "The airlines are usually very good about the compensation, but once in a while they get caught. The airlines aren't going to give away money if they don't have to."
If the passenger must wait longer for the next destination, you should formation doubles. The CAB handler messages are:
ACCORDING TO Dean Sparkman, regional CAB director, a bumped passenger receives a minimum of $7.50 and a maximum of $200 if he is dropped at midnight or two hours or a cargo boat within four hours.
Some students pay more than $800 for a spring break trip to Florida, but a KU senior paid only $600.
OVERBOOKINGS ARE common because of the large number of no-shows on flights, Bill
The mandatory compensation guidelines were established in 1978 after the airline industry was deregulated, Sparkman said. The rules are an attempt to get the airlines to police themselves, which was phased out by 1980 President Reagan recently proposed the CAB be abolished by 1, 1982.
Last week, State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, said a house Ways and Means subcommittee he worked on had found unusual research funds between the two institutions.
Phels, Dallas supervisor in charge of reservations for Delta Air Lines, said.
"The reason we overbook is because customers make double or triple reservations on different airlines," he said. "They do that in case they are able to book an entire trip." The two airlines suffer because of the no-shows.
overhead research monies was uninformed speculation.
"It's no different than the hotel business," he said. "They overbook in the same way."
The no-show ratio is about 20 percent for some
users. The Delta books overly boths to 10 percent.
Phils said.
"There are times when everyone shows up and looks forward to going on the flight, but that's minimal," he said. "If everyone would cooperate and call to cancel when the seat or reservation is not going to be used, overbooking could be eliminated."
PRIME TIMES for passenger bumping are peak traveling times, such as Christmas, Phelps said.
"We're not out to inconvenience anyone," he said, "we're out to fill the airplane, meet the customer's needs and get them to their destination
"You'd be surprised at how many people take the cash."
Bob Wheat, Pan American World Airways managing director for the North Central States, said that since there were no penalties for no-credit bookings and compensation would continue.
"It's a real problem because there is no penalty to punish people who don't show up," he said. "But the administrative costs to enforce the penalties will be too great, anyway."
YOUNGER PEOPLE with flexible time schedules are usually the volunteers. Wheat
"It's a good deal," he said. "Sometimes they get mobbed with volunteers. But if you didn't
overbook, most flights would be going out with empty seats. Any compensation you have to pay will depend on your travel dates.
ACCORDING TO DUNCAN, surplus research funds from the University were transferred from the KU budget into the Parsons State Hospital budget without the consent of the Legislature.
"I don't know of any airline that doesn't
have a full meal. " When it's full, it
means it is full plus 10 percent.
airlines overbook by about 10 to 12 percent on
aime flights, Mark Pender, Lawrence M-
wennig
WHEN THE CUSTOMER made the reservations or bought the ticket makes no difference if the flight is full, Pender said. The last passengers to board are bumped if there are no volunteers to get off the plane. Luggage is sent with the original flight.
"Overbooking is simply a guarantee the flight goes out full. They're in business to make a profit. If they can ensure they fill as many seats as possible, they're going to make more money."
Pender advised passengers who wanted to avoid being bumped to check in early for the
"Before deregulation, bumped customers were just out of luck, which was terrible public relations," he said. "Mandatory compensation is nothing more than a public relations move."
Compensation does not mean losses for the airlines, he said, because customers who are satisfied will return to that airline for future travel.
"It has a comical slant," Pender said. "They ask for four volunteers and they get 10. People
ANOTHER RU student received free travel, lodging and meals on his trip back from Florida (in 2015).
"It was great, I didn't miss any classes or anything," he said. "I think if you were real smart about it, you could make some bucks off of it."
Scolt Sayler, Shawnee Mission Sophomore, left his sand to catch the next flabbit on the next page.
Schleibuch said that the funds in question were certainly not state funds and were not treated as such.
Duncan said his main concern with the transfer was that state funds were being allocated without the approval of the Legislature. Duncan argues that he must exert greater control over the funds' usage.
Schiefelbusch, however, said there was no need for the Legislature to approve such trans-
"Usually when there is a cooperative venture on a program, it becomes necessary to exchange funds to help defray expenses generated." Schiefelbach said "in the case of the KU-Clinical Care Center, we transferred to take care of the University's use of the hospital's facilities and maintenance.
SCHIEFELBUSCH SAID that misuse
on the part of Duncan led to the
enlarged problem.
"He assumed that some sort of state funds had affixed between us," he said. "Instead it is more likely we are in a war."
Schiefelbuch said cooperation between KU and the hospital was formalized in 1986-1967 when they became partners in the Kansas Center Mental Retardation and Human Development.
Prior to that, research had been conducted at
U.S. Army U.Bureau of Child Research using federal funds.
When the program was expanded, the University built a research building and a University facility on the hospital grounds. The development of the formal program included a 20-year agreement between the University and the hospital for maintenance and development.
THE QUESTION of the grant research money was easily explained. Schiefebusch said.
Federal grants generated for projects at Parsons were held by the University. Direct costs were monitored by the Bureau of Child Coordination division of the University, he said.
In budgeting the distribution of the federal grants, the Bureau reported to the vice-chancellor for research and graduate studies. Schielebusch said some of those grants were budgeted into a special account and were used by the department to help defray costs generated by the KU facility.
for the Center had never included a state funding item.
Any equipment the hospital bought under that plan remained property of the University for its own use, he said. Other maintenance costs were included in the Parsons State Hospital budget.
Schiefelbusch emphasized that the fiscal plan
SCHIEFELBUSCH SAID that the only thing that might have appeared suspicious in the budget of the overhead research monies was the purchase of a meat grinder by the hospital—one of the items specifically mentioned by Duncan as suspicious.
"The only thing that even remotely suggests irregularities in the overhead funds use was that item," Schiefelbusch said. "All other items were not affected by the activity by the hospital and the University facility."
Schielebuch said the only possible explanation for the purchase of the meat grinder was that it was a mistake by the accounting department or it was considered as a legitimate purchase.
"It could be that because our patients also use the hospital kitchen that they thought the expenditure was justified because of the wear and tear on their equipment," he said. "I guess they didn't want it, was something the funds should be used for as a part of our expenses to maintenance."
Another item that Duncan questioned in the facility's budget was the salary allocation for an employee that was apparently working for the hospita.
THAT EMPLOYEE, Schiefelbacher said, was
the student who buys the University
facility on its computer system.
He said that the employee, Mike Dickson, manager of the computer system, was paid for work done on data system research for the Bureau.
All other expenditures in the KU overhead funds budget went for items ranging from a spectrophotometer to furniture for resident rooms, and shewing the shelving for a hospital pharmacy, he said.
"We bought that shelving because it is a
material we use almost exclusively."
Schufelbäck said.
Schielebuch said the distance between the University and the hospital made problems in the kind of transfers used by the two institutions nearly inevitable.
"The simple gap in distance and purpose of the institutions is really a problem in the transfers," he said. "At least that is the way it must seem to people looking at it from the outside.
"If someone without the full story of the relationship between the University and the hospital dug far enough into the relationship, they would certainly find chinks that would look suspicious. If those people got the full picture, then they would see that the exchange of the funds is just normal procedure. Hopefully Rep. Duncan will take time to do that."
Duncan said yesterday that all decisions about the matter would be reserved until the hospital staff and the university had given the subcommittee a detailed analysis of the relationship.
*'Any action that we might take now would be premature,' Duncan said. 'We will certainly not.'
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