The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, March 2, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 106 USPS 650-640
$3 million cut proposed for KU's '82 budget
$3 mm Legislators ignore pleas by Regents
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents, waiting for a compromise, has turned a cold shoulder to the Legislature.
The board's coolness has escalated since the Senate Ways and Means Committee ignored the board's plea to restore the cgov. John Hancock, the commissioner at least, the committee voted for even more cuts.
"We do not plan to place ourselves in any compromise positions at all." Regens Chairman Bernard Franklin said in defense of the board's tactic of making only one effort to persuade lawmakers to restore Carlin's cuts. "If there is an issue, we are going with the Legislature, and not with the board."
The board appeared before the joint meeting of the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees in January to ask for a 10 percent increase in operating budget funds, a 10 percent increase in operating budget funds.
THE SENATE COMMITTEE, on the other
hand, followed the wishes of Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, last month, and cut faculty pay request from the governor's recommended 8 percent. The governor also paid from his recommended 6 percent to 5.5 percent.
In addition, the committee voted to support a 15 percent average increase in tuition. The cuts totaled $3 million, but if the extra tuition money could end up losing $3 million, the Regents could end up losing $3 million.
John Conard, executive director of the Regents, and Richard Von Ende, KU executive secretary, sat stoically at last month's meeting committee performed the budget-cutting operation
"The Legislature randomly picked figures without looking at the needs of higher education." Franklin, who thought the committee would endorse the governor's budget.
IF THE COMMITTEE would have cut the budget with a promise to try to increase it the following year, the Regents would have talked about a compromise this year. Franklin said.
Hess, who said the Regents had an opportunity to speak before the committee took action, said the cuts were part of a goal to trim $25 million from the governor's $2.78 billion budget. To help achieve that goal, Hess drew up $100 million hit with included all major Regents budget requests.
"I want to leave this session with a conservative nocturne." Hess said.
HE SAID THE STATE needed to start saving money in anticipation of cuts in federal funding.
But three other appropriations bills that went through the Senate last month were cut back more, after the committee trimmed the governor's requests.
The board warned the Legislature that without a comprehensive increase, the schools would lose the good professors.
Franklin said the Regents' tough position on the budget probably would not cause problems.
But Franklin said, "I don't think a large percentage will leave."
HE SAID THE board's silence was not total, because the Regents were still talking to individual lawmakers, as well as faculty members to find out where both sides stand.
"I think the faculty knows that they have the support on this issue and others like tenure." Franklin said. "We are very much concerned about their bottom dollar."
The committee will start budget hearings for each campus Thursday.
As far as issues on individual campuses, Franklin said the Regents would let the legislative liaison from each university handle talking to legislators.
State Sen. Billy McCray, D-Wichita, a member of the KU budget subcommittee, said the subcommittee's preliminary report was finished, and the uncommented comment until the report was finalized.
Berman: Cuts hard to control
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Shielding the KU budget from a flash-happy Legislature will be next to impossible this session, according to former Sen. Arnold Berman. Lawrence.
"What I have found from sitting on the Ways and Means Committee is that if appropriations measures are not amended in the committee, have little chance to be changed on the floor."
Berman, a Democrat who lost the 1980 election to Jane Eldredge, said that any local opposition to the $3 million KU budget cuts would be naturally stunted because there were no local legislators on the House or Senate Ways and Means Committees.
"When I was in the Senate," he said, "I was on both the Ways and Means Committee and the Senate/House Appropriations Conference that gives final approval on all budget matters and I believe that my record spoke for KU. For the delegation this year, however, it will be harder for them to help the University without anyone on those committees.
BERMAN SAID that another problem facing KU and the rest of the Kansas Regens universities was the relatively little power that those school's home lawmakers had in the Senate.
"If one examines the home districts of the 40 senators," Berman said, "one will find that only six or eight members represent the institution's home areas.
"I think that this is one of the fundamental problems facing those legislators today and I think that the results from this lack of representation is obvious thus far."
A further look into the number of legislators from the Regents school's areas shows that outside of Wichita, only one senator and two commissioners are on the Ways and Means Committees.
Berman said that he would not include Wichita legislators as supporters for the Regents schools action.
"The Wichita delegation has different priorities than a delegation from say Lawrence would have," Berman said. "Because the city is larger, Wichita State is a smaller element in the city's economy and is therefore of lesser importance to them."
A WICHTH legislator has been one of the mover's movers behind the cuts. Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, has said that the Regents budget cuts were all part of a plan to since 52 million from Gov. Carol's proposed state budget.
See BERMAN page 7
ROB POOLE/Kansan staff
Eugene Clark stands outside the Sprague Apartments, a complex that houses retired KU faculty. Clark, the manager, is the only resident who has not taught at the University.
Retired KU faculty consider Sprague Apartments home
By KATHY MAAG
Staff Reporter
The iron-barred bridge leads from the serenity of Danforth Chapel to the locked doors, rape lights and gates at the Sprague Apartments for retired KU faculty.
Screams and cheers from the basketball game at neighboring Battenfeld Scholarship Hall echo along the hushed halls of the senior citizen apartments.
Sprague Apartments houses 14 retirements, ranging in ages from 78 to 165. Complete with a nurse, the living arrangement is unique, and the faculty are based in the country for retired college instructors.
"There's a long waiting list to get in here," 81-year-old manager Eugene Clark said. "These people worked for the University for 40 or 50 years and are now teaching for a fraction of what professors get now."
"They stay here until they can't take care of themselves, then they go to a relative or a nursing home," Clark said. "Sometimes they die right here in the building."
BUILT IN 1960, the 10 apartments are owned and rent-subsidized by the Kansas University Endowment Association. Tenants pay $100 a month for a $250 apartment.
"They're on a fixed income. They earned this privilege."
A young nurse and her graduate-student husband, Mr. and Mrs. David Benz, live in the
"We have a fine arts teacher who taught music on The Hill for 30 years," the white-haired manager said. "She hears the scrambled music on the stage, she hangs halls and says the kids will be deaf soon."
basement apartment. She is on duty for medical care if needed by the residents.
Familiar surroundings and campus programs are two advantages of the apartments. But music and noise from the scholarship hall's and sometimes create problems, residents said.
FEARFS OF VANDALISM and theft prompted
laptops to install double locks and rape
lights a year ago.
"We've always had a nurse or a therapist to look after us old people," Clark said. "If someone's hurt or not feeling well, she'll fix us up right up or get us into the hospital."
The locks and gates prohibit intruders from entering the building. Clark locks the door and the base, and then locks it again.
Clark is the only non-faculty apartment resident. He retired in 1964 from Kansas Power and Light and traveled around the country until accepting the job as manager in 1975.
"I think kids are silly nowadays. I'm of a different generation. I have nothing against them."
"we needed to keep the kids from running in and out," he said. "Vandalism is still terrible but we can work with them."
"I've heard they're going to build some ad-
sense SENOPAGE5
Prof attacks academic standards at KU
Tonight it will be increasingly cloudy and tomorrow it will be mostly cloudy with a chance of rain possibly mixed with snow. The high tomorrow will again be in the mid-40s. The low tonight will be 25 to 30 degrees.
It will be partly cloudy today with a high in the mid-40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Winds today will be light and variable from the East to the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Leland Miller, professor of occupational therapy, claims that in the fall of 1977 his department disenrolled his laboratory class and assigned the students to another instructor for grading, all without consulting him.
In the wake of a Faculty Council academic standards resolution, a KU professor has charged that past activities by the Occupational Therapy Department illustrate there are few academic standards at the University.
"It it a notice on stop day that all of my students in my Kinesiology lab class were disenrolled, assigned to another class and given A's," he said.
"It was in that time when students were listened to, no matter what they said," Miller said. "I was never allowed to confront我 in front of them, even though it seemed that if you're accused, you're guilty."
THAT HAPPENED, Miller said, because a group of students complained to Joane Wryrick, the department chairman, about him.
After four years, Miller's questions may finally be answered. A subcommittee of the Tenure and Related Problems Committee plans to mediate his grievance this semester. Miller adds that the hearing has been a long time in coming.
The problem, Miller said is that the department grievance policy accommodates on-going staff.
WYRICK'S DISENROLLMENT action was the result of a very strong complaint by students, James Moeeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said. Moeser is involved because the Occupational Therapy Department was in the School of Fine Arts in 1977.
"The basic issue here is whether the administration here can, just by administrative fiat, take over the grading of a course," he added. "Because the process, without due process, disenroll a class?"
Miller's claims, however, are not without dispute.
"The students charged unfair grading on his part," Moeser said. "These students were set to graduate and they feared grade reprisals. This action allowed another faculty member who was impartial to grade them, as Lunderstand it."
1ms solution, implemented by Wryk, was also according to Ronald Gauldard, then vice chair of the committee.
"She violated no policy that I know of." U.S. ambassador now president of Trinity College in San Antonio, where she works.
"Neither the department nor the other person who ended up grading the course got in touch with me to find out what grades I gave during the course," he said. "The grade sheet was never forwarded to me I guess they sent me a memo to it he who gave the grades to the class."
But Miller asks if an ethical rule was broken.
WYRICK SAID she could not comment on
"The basic issue here is whether the administration here can, just by administrative fiat, take over the grading of a course. —Leland Miller
Miller's allegations because of the impending meditation.
"I do not want to in any way jeopardize the hearing," she said. "I sure it would be hard."
"As of fall 1977, any student who had a concern could go to the department chairman and ask what rights they had," she said. "If they had a real grievance they could then go to the University ombudsman or a grievance committee."
But Wryk did elaborate on the department grievance policy that Miller says favors
"It if went to the grievance committee, the faculty member would be notified."
"When these grades were submitted, I wrote a formal letter to the registrar's office and I got zero response," Miller said. "Dean Moeser, who was head of the Fine Arts Department, which Occupational Therapy was under at that time, said that he felt the matter had been resolved and that it had been resolved satisfactorily."
Moeser said that he did not remember telling Miller to forget the matter, but Moeser added he did not want to comment extensively on the issue.
students could just complain to the dean, Wryrick said, and the faculty member would not be notified for fear of grade reprisals against the students.
IF A FACULTY member wished to resist department action taken after a student complaint, the faculty member could follow the procedures of the faculty and staff handbook, Calgaird said.
MILLER SAID HE then went to Australia on a leave without pay and while there, wrote to Ambrez Sarteks, the president of the KU College of Engineering, the American Association of University Professors.
"I might violate the confidence of several of the students who were involved in it at the time," Moeser said. "I really don't want to comment."
"His official response was, 'Why don't you forget it?' " Miller said. "I'd like to say I haven't been a member of the AAP since then."
But Saricks said he told Miller to consult the Tenure and Related Problems Committee.
"I did tell him that while he was in Australia, there wasn't much to be done," Saricks said. "But I wrote to him along the line, that as I saw the situation and as the Faculty Code was then, TRP was the body to consult."
Calgard was the next person Miller wrote.
Cigarld was the next person who woke. He said he could tell me when it until I was ready, "Mother said, 'I wait said.'"
Calgaard said the problem with Miller's grievance was that there was no procedure to
"You will find no policy cover to cover it unless one has been written in the last 20 months that I've been gone," he said. "It's a rare set of circumstances."
WHEN MILLER returned from Australia a
wife with whom he consulted William
Ballour, University ambassador.
"He referred me to Francis Heller, who was head of the Tenure and Related problems at UNESCO."
But because it was summer session, Heller told Miller there were too few committee members in Lawrence to deal with the grievance. By fall, the committee was directed. Margaret Gordon, professor of welfare, and action was finally taken, Miller said.
"Towards the end of last semester I was notified that a special committee under Paul Jess (professor of journalism) was looking into it," Miller said. "Jess told me he was very interested in this case because there was no procedure to cover it under the old system."
This semester the University approved a new faculty grievance policy. Miller's case is being reviewed under the old policy, Jess encounters the incident occurred under the old system.
"He said to me, 'yours might be the first and the last case under the old system.'"
JESS SAID HE could not comment on the
See STANDARDS page 5
Shankel to outline athletic investigation policy
By DAN BOWERS
Staff Reporter
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel will release a statement today addressing allegations of shady activity by the university.
Sankuel said last night that University officials had been examining the charges, made last month by the Kansas City Times, as well as those from other cities, that may be vulnerable to abuse by individuals.
"I intend this statement to express the procedures we have used to investigate the concerns that have been expressed about academics at the University," he said.
The statement will be addressed to faculty, staff, students and alumni groups Shankel said.
Shankel has asked Athletic Director Bob Marcum and George Worth, chairman of the
University Senate executive committee, to sign the statement.
Marcum has indicated he would sign the statement, Shankel said, but Worth is reluctant.
"I don't think that my signature belongs at the bottom of the statement."
"I think it's a good statement, but it describes action he, as chancellor has taken, or directed others to take." Worth said.
Worth said he agreed with what the statement said, but that it was a statement, Shankel, as chancellor, should make independently. Marcum was unavailable for comment.
KU officials have not viewed the charges as a problem unique to the athletic department, but
The statement addresses allegations made in a Feb. 6 article in the Times that cited questionable recruiting practices, grade changing and shuffling athletes through easy
as a slap in the face to the entire University's academic standards.
Worth said he thought Shankel's statement, and a resolution adopted last week by the Facultral Board, would be more effective.
"We need to work together on this," he said. "And I support him fully."
At its meeting last Thursday, Faculty Council passed a resolution that stated its opposition to the compromising of KU's academic standards, or to any interference with those standards by individuals or groups inside or outside of the University.
The council also approved a statement proposed by Lawrence Sherr, professor of business and math, which asked the chancellor to examine how the council reported to the council the findings of the inquiry.
Shankel said that the allegations were being looked into and that he should be able to report the results to the council by the requested April 2 date.