University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Trial date set for protesters
TOPEKA — A July 3 trial date was set Wednesday for教廷 in anti-nuclear protesters, including a KU student, who were arrested Feb. 19 on Sanfe Te Railway Co. property. The defendants were charged with criminal trespass after being arrested through Kansas of a train they said carried nuclear warheads for submarine missiles.
Bands to perform April 15
The defendants, who will be tried jointly in municipal court, were conducting a silent prayer vigil at the time of their arrests.
The University Band and the Concert Band will perform a spring concert at 8 p.m. April 15 in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murray Hall.
W. Francis McBeth, chairman of the music theory and composition department at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas that he guest conductor of the Concert Band
Kansan taking applications
Applications are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the organizations and activities office, 403 University Business office, 119 Staffer-Final Hall.
The Kansan is accepting applications for the paid positions of editor and business manager for the summer session and fall semester.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. April 15 in 900 Stauffer Fint Hall.
Applications for other news and business staff positions for the summer session and fall semester also are available at the Biodiversity Center by 5 p.m. April 18 in 200 Stauffer-Flint.
Faculty nicks governing body
The faculty elected 13 members yesterday to the University Faculty Council, the governing body for the faculty, and two members to the Athletic Board.
More than 450 of the approximately 1,250 faculty members at the University of Kansas voted for 13 members from a pool of 27 candidates, said Sandra Wick, University Senate Executive Committee secretary.
Those elected to represent the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are: Robin Davis, professor of physics and astronomy, Mel Dubnick, associate professor of political science, Joan Holmes, associate professor of German, Felix Moskos, professor of English, John Stokes, associate professor of philosophy and Robert Souger, professor of anthropology.
Bazelai Benjamin, professor of architecture, was elected to represent the School of Architecture. Mary Burchill, law librarian, was elected to represent the libraries. Alicia Gibbons, associate professor of music education, was elected to represent the School of Education. V. Parker Lessig, professor of business, was elected to represent the School of Business.
Sid Shapiro, professor of law, will represent the School of Law. Richard Spano, associate professor of social welfare, will represent the School of Social Welfare. Robert Zerwek, professor of mechanical engineering, will represent the School of Engineering.
Weather
Today there is a 20 percent chance of morning showers, becoming partly cloudy later in the day. The high will be in the low to mid-50s. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be in the mid goos. High tomorrow will be 55 to 60.
Where to call
If you have a news tip or a photo idea,
call the Kansan at 864-4810.
If your idea deals with campus news, ask for Rob Kawarth, campus editor. If it deals with sports, ask for Lauretta Schultz, sports editor. For On Campus items or information on arts and leisure, speak with John Egan. Et cetera editor.
If you have a complaint or a problem, ask for Matt DeGalan, editor, or Diane Laber, managing editor.
Compiled from Kansas staff and United Press International reports.
GALA Week resurrected with private funds
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
GALA Week goes on — despite the absence of financial support from the Student Senate for the week of activities promoting gay awareness on campus — because enough private funds were raised to pay for the events.
Ruth Lichtwardt, director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said yesterday that donors had stopped by the GLOSK office to give money after they had heard GLOSK didn't have enough funds to pay for the activities.
GLSOK supporters also solicited some funds, she said.
"I'm so happy," she said. "This has been such a wonderful day. People care."
Each spring, GLSOK sponsors Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, a week of films, speakers and music celebrating gay awareness on campus.
Earlier this week, GLSOK requested Senate money to pay for the activities.
AT WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S meeting, however, the Senate failed to raise enough votes to bring a bill to the floor requesting $165 to pay for GALA Week. The Senate needed a two-thirds majority to suspend the rules so the GALA Week would have had to be suspended; the rules would have had to be suspended because the bill was submitted only two days before the Senate meeting. Senate rules say a bill must be turned in five days before a meeting for it to be considered.
chairman, overturned the committee's approval of the bill because it already had been submitted to the Senate's executive secretary. Senate rules say a committee cannot generate a bill that has the same effect as one already submitted.
Earlier this week, the Finance Committees approved then later overturned the GALA agreement.
LICHTWARDT SAID the contributors were students and faculty who realized the importance of GALA Week and wanted to show support through private donations.
She said some of the donors wanted to remain anonymous.
Lichtward said more non-gays than gays had contributed money, but the gays that had contributed money were not part of the group.
feeling that they wanted to contribute. GALA Week is very important."
"The generosity of people is overwhelming me," she said. "I've gone through most of the year thinking one no cared and suddenly people are showing support.
"I think it was anger that had people
Jeff Polack, student body vice president, objected to the Senate suspending its rules to consider the GALA week bill because GLOSK had not submitted the legislation properly
"My opposition was never to the group," he said.
Polack said, "I'm glad to see they get to put it on. If everything had gone according to the rules, I'm quite sure they would have been right. Not all, of the money they were requesting."
The Senate next week will decide whether to finance the new year 1986, which考验了 the 1985B school year.
Earlier this week, the Finance Committee failed to decide whether GLSOK should receive Senate money but vote to let the full Senate decide on the group's financing.
Patrick Dalton, Mission junior, left, lunges at David Bishir, Independence senior, as they fence. The two practiced their fencing technique yesterday behind Spooner Hall.
Veda Owens/KANSAN
State pay plan released for classified employees
By NANCY HANEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Another pay plan for the state's classified employees has been released, but the director of the state legislature complied so sold on the Legislature's latest proposal.
Charles Dodson, executive director of the Kansas Association of Public Employees.
"It itt bad," he said. "I can see an improvement, but I don't know how long it
A joint House and Senate committee was formed in late January to draft a fiscal 1966 pay plan that would be agreeable to both Gov. John Carlin and the state's classified employees. Legislators had rejected previous state pay plan proposals.
The committee met yesterday to examine a study prepared for them by the Legislature's research department. The committee was informed of working to discuss the plan in greater detail.
KAPE REPRESENTS all state employees, which include classified employees and other employees, such as highway patrolmen. Classified employees include secretaries and clerk-typists, whose jobs are identical across the state. The University of Kansas employs about 1,100 classified workers.
If the conference committee approves its plan, it will go to the Ways and Means committees in the House and Senate. The plan must survive these committees, win approval from both chambers and be signed by the governor before it can be enacted.
Only one of the three options suggested by the research department was recommended
by the committee's chairman, State Rep. Dyank Duncan, R-Wichita.
UNDER THE conference committee's plan, Duncan said, all employees who held the same type of job and had worked the same number of years would receive the same raises. This part of the plan would be proposed by Carlin and KAFE. Duncan said.
The entire plan differs only slightly from that proposed by the governor in early January, he said.
Classified employee pay plans have been proposed by the governor every year for four years but has never been financed by the Legislature. Lawmakers have waited to allocate money for the plan until the end of every session, when the state habitually runs out of funds to allocate for programs for the next fiscal year.
KAPE, unhappy with Carlin's pay plan for fiscal 1986, in late January proposed its own to the Legislature. The KAPE plan is similar to the plan, but it allows for fewer pay raises each year.
Dodson said the greater number of pay increases proposed by Carlin was impractical, since the state probably wouldn't be able to finance so many raisings. KAPE prefers to propose a plan it thinks has a reasonable chance of being enacted, he said.
In order for a pay plan to become a reality, the plan must be adopted before the legislature recesses April 13. By that time, the pay plan would be signed by its signature in order to take effect for fiscal 1986.
Duncan said he was not in a hurry to pass the pay plan through before the adjournment.
But as the session gets longer, Dodson said, the chances of classified employees getting what they want grow slimmer.
Students won't take wooden stool policy sitting down
Staff Reporter
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Sit on it
Sit on hard, wooden stools for five or six hours a day.
That's what first, second- and third-year architecture students have to do.
The students spend about five hours a day on metal frame stools with wooden seats that are provided in their architecture studios in Marvin Hall.
While the issue may not appear earth-shaking, some students say it's a paid in fee.
"It's like sitting on cement," Gavin Kirk, St. Louis junior, said. "It's quite uncomfortable and a little bit galling."
School policy dictates that those students with seniority — fourth- and fifth-year students — are provided with adjustable stools with padded seats and backs. Lower-year students are not allowed to bring their own stools to replace the wooden ones.
THE POLICY became effective about five years ago, when Marvin Hall was renovated. The budget allowed for only a certain number of padded stools.
"The upper-year students have looked at it as a rite of passing," Max Lucas, dean of the School of Architecture, said.
Rob Forney, St. Louis senior, said, "I don't think it's any big deal. I'm sitting on a padded stool right now. I've put up with my share of hard nights."
The third-year students say they are not trying to pull the chairs out from underneath the upper-year students. But they want to bring their own stools.
"You can bring anything else in here, like stereos and equipment." Mike McKown, Wichita junior, said. "I don't know why we couldn't bring stools in here."
The dean, however, isn't budging on this chair policy.
Jamie Stiles, Lawrence senior and president of the School of Architecture's student
council, said he discussed the stool policy with the dean in February.
"A number of students came to me quite disconcerted about this." Stiles said. "I went to Dr. Lucas and he was quite adamant about this."
Lucas said he was dedicated to the proper upkeep of Marvin Hall and he didn't want it cluttered with extra stools.
"Architects, above everybody, should be concerned with their environment," he said. "Up to the time Marvin was renovated, students brought their own stools and chained them to their drafting tables. The building looked like a prison."
Easter activities may bring stroll down memory lane
Bv PEGGY HELSEL
A stroll past the Campanile today may be a stroll down memory lane for some.
This afternoon the Campanie will be swarming with about 26 children, scrambling for hidden plastic eggs filled with candy. The Easter egg hunt for the kindergarten class at Hilltop Child Development Center is sponsored by the Acacia fraternity.
Staff Reporter
Matt Pollock, Olathe freshman and projects chairman for the house, said the event was the fraternity's way of doing something for the community.
The walk could revive memories of childhood Easters spent searching for colored eggs and candy, new hats adorned with silk flowers, and stomachaches from eating an entire chocolate bunny in one sitting.
annual KU Sunrise Service will be conducted at 7 a.m. Sunday at the Campanile.
For those who are too old to join in the hunt but who want to celebrate Easter, the 15th
Early risers can watch the sun's ascent as they participate in the service sponsored by New York University.
Greg Nabors, president of New Life, said the service would include religious music performed by an eight-piece band, hymns and a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus.
Area merchants aren't expecting a loss due to the holiday, either.
Mike Moon, assistant store manager for Rusty's Food Center, 901 Iowa St., said he expected to sell seven to eight times more eggs this week than the usual 300 dozen.
And Nan Axcell, manager of Little Women-Little Men, a children's clothing store at 823 Massachusetts St., said dress shorts for boys, Easter hats and frilly dresses were making a comeback among fashion-conscious toddlers.
"They're getting back to dressing up. the frills of it," she said.
Come on in and try a New, Cool, Refreshing, Light lunch from our spring menu.
TIN PAN ALLEY
KU Microbiology Society
presents a
3—part Symposium on Allergies:
- Introduction
- “Diagnosis & Treatment of Allergies”
- "Food Allergies"
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
3-5 p.m. Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union
FREE— Everyone welcome!
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