KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 27,1981 Vol.91,No.120 USPS 650-640
Shankel discusses problems, solutions
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel acknowledged yesterday that the University of Kansas had problems, but said none of them was of major significance.
Shankel also urged the University community to speak up about internal and external matters to colleagues, friends, legislators, administrators and parents.
"Let your voices be heard." Shankel told about 256 people, mainly faculty members, in Woodruff Auditorium. "You have a stake in this University and an obligation to defend it. KU is not perfect, but it demonstrably an excellent university—and perhaps the best in this region."
Shankel was speaking at an all-University convocation he called three weeks ago to address
Honored with a standing ovation at the close of his speech, Shankt said the issues were athletic academic standards, the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri obligations and faculty consulting arrangements.
Additionally, Shankel said KU had two other concerns—its increasing tendency toward "cannibalization" and the politicization of the University.
CANNIBALIZATION OCCURS, Shankel said,
when the University faces hard economic times and
a recession.
"When faculty within the University begin to pit the needs of one department or program against the needs of another department or program and to attack the budgets of other units," he said. "I believe I see this tendency being reinforced.
1 "know of several instances where faculty is accused other faculty, without grounds, of illegal conduct."
Cannibalization also was evident when legislators and KU administrators received anonymous letters from persons in the KU department, who complainedantilized claims about collagines. Shankar told
Later, when pressed for particular incidents of cannibalism, Shankel refused to be more spartan.
Shankel said politicization, his other concern, occurred when University community members wanted political intervention in KU's internal administration.
"If the University, however, resorts to political expediency or if members of the University community request political intervention in the internal administration of the University," he said, "then I believe we have established a dangerous trend which can only lead to political intervention in areas where it might not be requested or desired."
TO CURB THAT TREND, the University must remain a forum for student and faculty ideas, especially as it evolves.
See CONVOCATION page 5
Acting Chancellor addressers students and faculty members at a University convoitation in the Union's Woodruff Auditorium. Shankel (inset photo) listens to questions from audience members after discussing issues facing the University.
Transfer of KU research funds is questioned
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staf
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A House Ways and Means subcommittee has found a set of extra-legal monetary transfers between the University of Kansas and Parsons State Hospital.
According to State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, surplus research funds of the University had been transferred from the KU budget into the Parsons State Hospital budget without any records being kept on what those funds were used for.
"There is quite a large chunk of money that is being used, but no records are kept on it," Duncan, a member of the subcommittee that investigated the matter, were concerned about was that this money was
spent without the consent or knowledge of the Legislature."
Duncan emphasized that at the present time the transfers were not illegal, but he did not rule out the possibility that illegal practices had taken place.
"What happened was that equipment was bought by KU for its facility down at the hospital and then the next year that equipment would turn up on the inventory sheets of the hospital," Duncan said. "Some of the research money was also being spent for things ranging from a meat grinder for the hospital kitchen, to the salary of a lab worker, to a lab spectrophotometry machine."
The reasoning behind the transfers of the funds was unknown to Duncan and the subcommittee.
payment to the hospital for letting the KU facility use its patients for research.
THE KU FACILITY is located on the campus of the Parsons State Hospital. The KU branch is titled the University Affiliated Facility at Parrsons College, which conducts research on mentally retarded children.
"There are several kinds of things that are happening down there," Duncan said. "Nothing, and nothing."
Richard Von Ende, KU executive secretary,
said yesterday that the entro affair was more a
difficult one than before.
"But it is really not a problem such as," Van E. Eckhart says, "think that there needs to be more education."
Duncan, however, said that the subcommittee was seriously interested in finding out where all of the cases are located.
"I would say that of general use funds the Legislature should have accountability," he said. "But there isn't any now. The funds are personal expenses."
"We haven't had the time yet to check out if the employee in question down there is on the KU payroll or the hospital payroll. If the person is on the KU payroll, then there is a problem."
THE SUBCOMMITTEE, according to Duncan, has asked for a study on the fundings from the Board of Regents. He said the subcommittee also asked for the hospital's budget with an explanation of what was spent where for the past several years.
Once the subcommittee gets the hospital budget, it would then compare the expenditures with programs approved or disapproved by the Legislature.
"It is one thing if this turns out to be an effort in creative management, where funds were found for programs that simply could not be afforded," Duncan said. "But it is something entirely different if we said no, we don't want you to do this' and the hospital did it anyway."
From what the subcommittee had learned so far, Danean said, the former case seemed the
"But still, what possible connection does a meat grinder have with university research?" Duncan asked. "It certainly does not excuse the practice."
Duncan said that at the moment it was too early to make accusations about the matter.
"There is a good working relationship between the hospital and the University down there," Duncan said. "Our interest is not to ruin that relationship."
House panel heeds advice on Regents budget
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
TOPEK A—As State Rep. Mike Hayden had predicted, the House Wayz and Means Committee yesterday gave its approval to nearly all of the Senate's recommendations on the Board of Regents budget, including a 7 percent increase in faculty salaries.
Hayden, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, had said this week that most of the cuts made by the Senate would stand. The committee failed to get through the entire budget for over four hours of debate. Debate on the remainder of the budget and a final vote will be taken today.
Center, University of Kansas Medical Center,
St. Louis, Missouri State University and Kansas Technical
University.
The committee passed the system-wide Regents budget and individual budgets for the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Kansas State Veterinary Medical
THE COMMITTEE must still decide on the
nomination of the State University and
Wisconsin State University.
Throughout most of the budget discussion, debate on Senate cuts to Gov. John Carlin's economic policy was ongoing.
Two notable exceptions to the near blanket approval of the Senate cuts was the extension of a 15 percent tuition increase for the Med school tuition for the K-State Veterinary Medical Center.
The House committee made one surprise move during the debate. The committee decided on a close vote to strike a concession to President Obama and installed in the budget during floor debate.
least three hours of classroom teaching,
unless excess by the university's chancellor.
The rider would have required all people with a regular faculty appointment to carry at
Before the committee deleted the rider from the budget, several committee members suggested raising that requirement to allow classroom work. That motion narrowly failed.
On the individual KU budget recommendations, the House committee made statements.
ONE OF THE MAJOR amendments was the decision not to support a KU law enforcement training program with an insurance premium tax. That proposal was the budget by a House Ways and Means subcommittee that wanted to escalate the program.
The committee was split almost evenly on a proposal to raise the faculty salary increase from the Senate's recommendation of 7 seats. See NOVEX report.
See BUDGET page 12
Street band stages comeback in Lawrence
By PENNICRABTREE Staff Reporter
"We're not interested in any record dals or big concert performances," Mark Lumpie, banjo and ukulele player for the band, said yesterday. "We are interested in jamming and making people happy."
rocking on a guitar or banjo and literally singing for his supper, the street musician is an endangered spec in anywhere but the largest cities.
Before stereo, radio and the $12-a-ticket concert, there was the street musician.
THE FLATLAND BAND, which consists of Lumpe, a senior from Scranton; Dick Powers, a resident of Prairie Village; Tony Harrison and Narayana Brown, both Lawrence residents, performs at various places on campus and in the Lawrence downtown area.
In Lawrence, a group called the Flatland String Band is trying to keep the street musician肌体
"Basically, we play whether and whenever the sun is shining," Lumpie said. "Sometimes we pass the hat, and sometimes we don't, depending on how the authorities are feeling towards us."
The band has not obtained the $25 license
See BAND page 12.
Three members of the Flatland String band, left to right, Dick Powers, Mark Lampe and Tony Harrison, perform outside Wescoe Hall.
Amyx drops out of race for city commissioner
Staff Reporter
Bv PAM HOWARD
The surprise withdrawal of City Commission candidate Mike Amyx and allegations by two commissioners that two candidates were representing specific interest groups highlighted the League of Women Voters candidate forum last night.
The forum, which featured the six City Commission candidates, was designed to help voters decide who they would support April 7 to fill three commission vacancies.
"I, as of now," Amyx said in his resignation speech, "am directing 100 percent of my support and effort to assist Mr. Bob Schumm in his re-election bid to the Lawrence City Commission."
Amysa said that he was resigning from the campaign because he was concerned about the state of the economy.
"I also am concerned that there is a coalition forming that, if elected, would drastically change the character and spirit of Lawrence for years to come." he said in his speech.
HE ALSO CLAIMED that candidates had been changing their positions to match different audiences. Amyx cited this as another reason for his resignation.
"Over the past two weeks I have become very concerned, at times alarmed, that some of the candidates feel they have to tell a different story to different audiences," he said.
City Commissioner Barkley Clark, who is running for re-election, said that he did not agree that candidates were taking different positions under different circumstances.
He said that questions were asked differently
at each forum and so they would naturally be answered differently.
Clark did, however, speak of a polarization that he thought was forming in the campaign that may have been the forming coalition that Amyx referred to.
"I sense in this campaign a polarization I have not sensed in any other campaign," he said. "I am not confident."
"Two candidates, I'm not going to say whom, are appearing at coffees and teas together."
During the forum, Tom Gleason denied that polarization was occurring.
Gleason said that neighborhood associations were no more power groups than the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Association and many other Lawrence organizations.
"I wish we could drop these false divisions," Gleason said.
"Divide and conquer is an old political tactic." Gleason said after the meeting. "In any city as diverse as Lawrence you can draw lines and say people are on one side or the other.
"There are differences in opinion and attitude, but you can't say there are two camps."
COMMISSIONER SCHUM also spoke of a polarization movement in the campaign.
"There is a group of people that are interested in forming a city council." It he said.
in forming a city within a city," he said. Schumann he said he had not expected Amyx's re-
"This is kind of a surprise move and I didn't know about it until just before the meeting." Schumm said. "He (Amyx) indicated a real concern about this election."
See CANDIDATE page 5
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a high of 70, according to the KU Weather Service. There will be a 50 percent chance thundershows in the afternoon.
Winds will be gusty out of the south at 10 to 25 mph.
Tonight there will be a 70 to 80 percent chance of thunderstorms. The low is 54°N, 126°W.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and cooler with the high in the upper 50s. There will be a slight chance of thundershowers.