The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, February 13, 1981
Vol. 91, No. 95 USPS 650-640
Senators Jane Eldredge and Ron Helen, along with other members of the Kansas Legislature met with Acting Chancellor Del Shankel yesterday to discuss the condition of Snow Hall. The group later toured the building with members of the biology faculty.
Budget cuts may delay Haworth plan
ByGENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Money for the Haworth Hall addition probably won't come through this next year, according to members of a Senate subcommittee who tured the KU campus yesterday.
The subcommittee, charged with making budget recommendations for the Lawrence campus to the Senate Ways and Means Com- mmittee, created several buildings with University officials.
THE HAWKORT ADDITION would allow the biology department to move out of Snow Hall and into a new building.
The last stop of the tour was Snow Hall, where members of the biology faculty were ready to complain about inadequate facilities. Some staff have been threatened to quit if changes were not made.
While the senators were impressed with the needs of the biology department, they said legislative leaders were in a mood to cut state spending this year.
State Sen. Billy McCray, D-Wichita, a subcommittee member, said KU students he talked to mentioned a general drop in morale due to budget problems and a lack of instructors. But he added that the legislature probably would still tighten spending.
The $12.3 million Haworth plan, supported by the Board of Regents, was not included in the $2.78 billion budget Gov. John Carlin proposed last month.
THE REGENTS will put the plan on the back burner in favor of efforts to get a 10 percent pay increase for instructors and other staff members at all seven state universities.
Subcommittee Chairman Ron Hein, R-Topkea, said the report to the full committee was by March 6 and he declined to specify what suggestions the subcommittee would make.
"It would be accurate to say that there is a great deal of pressure on us to come in at, or below, the governor's recommended budget," Hein said.
Brower Burchill, professor of cell biology, told the senators that the Haworth work was costly.
but he pleaded with them to include it in the 1982 budget.
"But if we put it off for a year," Burchill said, "then the amount of money needed would increase partially due to inflation and the fact that the economy won't be so bad."
Hein said "maybe there could be some manipulation of the KU budget requests so the KU department can adjust".
HE ADDED, however, that there were several important projects for KU and the other universities that would make it difficult to find a suitable place and still stay within the governor's guidelines.
Mike Gaines, professor of systematics and ecology, told the senators that Snow Hall no longer met federal standards for keeping hot water out of cramped conditions and heating problems.
"When the inspectors for the National Health
Institute are building," Gaines said, "they were hired."
Board delays action on fine elimination
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
The University Parking and Traffic Board will delay action on a resolution that would eliminate fines for excessive violators of Group III parking violations, the board chairman said yesterday.
The resolution, by student Senate last week, urged parking services to stop fining students because "having a car towed or immobilized is punishment enough for having accumulated five unpaid parking violations, not being subjected to an additional $25 or $30."
The board chairman, Harold Yarger, said the resolution came at the wrong time for consideration by the board. He said that regulations were reviewed and revised in the fall so that new boards could be printed and that the board was now in the middle of budget proceedings.
"There really won't be any serious discussion on the resolution until next fall," he said. "It'll happen soon."
HE SAID THE resolution for lowering fines to a good idea because there were already too many of them.
"The existing fine structure apparently is not a good deterent," he said. "If fines were lowered, the risk would decrease."
KU Parking Services issued 54,879 tickets in 1980, according to a KU fiscal report on parking. More than half were for cars with no permits, 8,992 were for overparking in metered lots and 8,992 were written for parking in the wrong zone. Only tickets were written for excessive violations.
David Kersley, sponsor of the resolution, said he was more concerned with how parking services spent the money it collected from violators with the number of tickets students received.
"The money should be used for expanding facilities so there won't be a cause for so many violations," he said. "But about half of the tickets and parking ticket writers to write more tickets."
IN A SURVEY by the Student Senate Rights Committee on KU Parking Services, the fiscal 1980 revenue was $649,013. Expenditures for salaries and wages totaled $315,399.
In order to pay its 20 employees, parking services had to issue 42.536 tickets just year.
Yarger said the number of employees was necessary under the system used at KU.
"There must be some kind of enforcement," he said. "Fines must be high enough and monitoring sufficient enough to deter violations."
Yarger said there were more than adequate parking facilities at KU.
"They may not be preferred parking places, enough to accommodate everyone," he said.
THEARE 8,300 parking places on campus, the Senate survey said.
Yanger said some students drove together to campus and parked illegally on purpose to get a ride.
Parking permits are allocated to faculty and staff by age and number of applicants. Parking is left over.
He said students could get a permit for almost any zone, and could petition for a permit in those areas.
See related story page 14
The parking services budget also contains a
large portion that is carried over from the previous fiscal year. In the Senate report, the carry-over from 1979 was $33,385. This amount is the service's total resource available at $1,042,386.
YARGER SAID this figure was misleading because of when the fiscal year ended.
are fiscal year ends June 30," he said, "So, at the end of the fiscal year there is a lot of money left off."
"But most repair work on parking lots is done in late summer. So for a time, money is going out to pay for these repairs but not much is coming in until students start burying parking mermits."
He said the amount of carry-over was diminishing over several years. He said the goal was to be as comfortable as possible.
KERSLEY SAID, however, that on June 19,
the Department of Administration in Topeka
verified that parking services had $555,407, and
a month later, that figure was up to $564,408.
"If KUPS is scraping the bottom of the barrel when these months, it must mean there is a hell of a chance."
The Senate survey on parking compared KU parking with that of four other universities. The report said KU had higher fines and permit fees than Kansas State University, Colorado State University, Oklahoma State University and Iowa State University.
See PARKING page 5
Carol Shankel discards role
ByCINDY CAMPBELL
Staff Reporter
Carol Shankel refuses to be bought by her husband's salary. She also refuses to play the "hostess" role usually expected of the chancellor's wife.
Shankel, the wife of Acting Chancellor Del Shankel, doesn't see herself as the traditional administrator's wife. Rather than spend her time with students, she chooses to work and pursue her own interests.
"I've tried to strike a balance between what I want to do and the social obligations," she said.
Her list of accomplishments would make anyone proud. She now serves as the public relations director for the Spencer Museum of Art, she co-founder of Kansas Women's Sports, Inc., she's written a biography and various articles about her accomplished photographer and she is a mother of two.
SHAKENLK'EFFORTS to escape her husband's shadow led her to her latest project—a conference to be held at KU March 13-14 entitled "Work and Social Roles in Academe."
"Traditionally, the academic administrator and his wife have had certain social responsibilities," Shankel wrote in the conference brochure. "As a couple they entertained in their home and attended academic social functions. There was no doubt as to who would pour the tea, for the administrator's wife was expected to act as hostess to students, colleagues and alumni.
"the notion that one salary paid for the services of two people was firmly entrenched."
In years past, Shankel's ideas would have been
considered radical, blasphemous even, but she admits that she's outspoken.
"Many questions need to be answered," Shankel said, "and we want to address them at the conference."
For instance:
- What compromises can a career couple make to fulfill their combined social and economic needs?
- If a woman is unable to meet the traditional role, how can she deal with the criticism or gulf of disapproval?
- Where do the husbands of female administrators fit in?
- How can unmarried administrators carry out social responsibilities?
- And just how big a part does the fulfillment of social roles play in the hiring and firing of admin-
"I'm not at an total break with tradition," she said. "I want to provide a transition so the people that live in the chancellor's house in the future can pursue their own interests if they want to."
"I hired a very good person who is my coordinator of social events to do the things. I believe, the wife usually use to do. She arranges flowers, plans menus, sets tables . . ."
SHANKEL ALSO has the services of a cook five days a week.
Her mood is serious and her tone convincing. She seems to be definitely than chancellor's wives of the past.
Silly than charlotte's wives of the pal
"But I've had total support," she said.
See SHANKEL page 9
Betty Boyle, the housekeeper at Acting Chancellor Del Shankler's home on campus, pauses while he prepares for the next three years. Boyle has been housekeeper at the chancellor's official residence for the past three years.
Staff Reporter
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff/Reporter
Long hours typify professionalism of KU housekeeper
To some, it's the chancellor's residence; to others, it's the old Watkins home, but to Betty Boyle, 1532 Lilac Lane is her 10,528-square-foot job.
Just exactly what her title is, Boyle isn't sure,
but she does know her duties.
"I do everything around here," she says, arms outspread for emphasis. "I do the cooking, the cleaning, the washing, the ironing, I guess you could call me the housekeeper."
The Facilities Operations Housekeeping Department calls her a cook, level II, because she cooks for the chancellor and for the smaller formal dinners at the residence.
A couple weeks ago you could have called her a firefighter, too.
DURING THE JANUARY drought, a small grass fire began on the south side of the chaner's lawn. After notifying the campus police, the gardeners fled the firemen and watch the gardens flee the flame.
But waiting wasn't enough and soon the 54-old housekeeper had commanded the老-age housekeeper.
"I don't know what got into me," she con-
censored. "I put my yard burning up
'change' back in place."
See HOUSEKEEPER page 6
It will be cold today under partly cloudy skies with the high in the upper 28s, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
County unprepared for toxic spill, chief says
Tomorrow will be warmer with a high near 50. Winds will be 18-28 mph out of range.
The low tonight will be in the lower 20s. Winds will be out of the south at 5-15 mph.
By DALE WETZEL
Hundreds of tons of hazardous chemicals—possibly enough to treat 2,000,000 people through the city each week.
Staff Reporter
In a recent letter to the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Board, McSwain said he had adequately trained men and fire-fighting officers in the Douglas County in case of a hazardous-materials accident.
And, should a major chemical accident take place, Lawrence emergency personnel would have trouble containing it, according to Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain.
"It is my opinion, however," he wrote, "that unless specialized containment and control equipment is made available, that our chances of controlling a release (are) very slim . . . at the present time there is no equipment available in Douglas County to attempt to control a hazardous-materials release or to prevent an impending release."
CHLORINE, ANHYDROUS ammonia and phosphoric acids are only three of the chemicals used in industrial processes.
Phil Leonard, Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, said, "Those big tank trucks full of anhydrous ammonia, you see those things running up and down highway 58 almost hourly." Anhydrous ammonia is a soil fertilizer frequently used by area farmers.
"I wish I knew all of the materials shipped through here. They're transported by rail, by truck, even by airplane," Leonard said, leaving through a yellow Department of Transportation booklet for emphasis. Its pages contain literally thousands of potential chemical hazards.
"As you can see, there are, uh, quite a few," he said with a wry grin.
Transporters of hazardous chemicals are required to mark, or "placard," both the container and the truck or roll car used to move the chemical. If a label is attached to the spot these diamond-shaped warning signs, which
bear such ominous words as "corrosive" "flammable" "explosive" and "boisonous"
LEONARD HAS been attempting for months to obtain the equipment needed to contain a fire.
Leonard emphasized that the people handling
"There aren't any records kept of hazardous material transport," Leonard said. "To expect somebody to maintain a list—for example, special freight-train carriers of hazardous materials—of every hazardous element they've ever carried, and what destination they carry it to, is unrealistic. Can you imagine the monumental paperwork involved?"
"When you ask me what all comes through here, he said, 'I don't know it.' I'm not trying to tell him."
"However, there no chance we'll get the stuff this year," Leonard said. "We're hoping—l repeat, we're hoping—that the county commission will find the money in fiscal year 1982. Budgeting for this will begin sometime this June."
the equipment would be " the first response, the people who are intimately on the scene, like the fire brigade."
"With a moderate spill, we can contain it well enough with the equipment we're asking for so that we can evacuate people in an orderly way, instead of having a mass situation. We might be able to contain it so none of the surrounding area is affected." he said.
A glance at the fire department's shopping list reveals some esoteric items, such as Bacacharry Gas (a complex chemical detector) and a High Capacity Air Bag System, designed to go around a leaking truck. However, the vast majority of it is expensive tools.
"They're non-sparking," Leonard said. When you pay $31 for a claw hammer, that's a lot of money. However, these are non-sparking tools, essential for the kind of work we're going to be doing with them. They cost about five times as much as ordinary tools."
LEONARD SAID THE equipment list was
SE CHEMICALS page 5