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University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1985
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profs begin work for local firm after delay
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Two professors, who received a $40,000 research grant from Culture Farms Inc. last week, delayed work until today because the company had failed to send a letter releasing the money for the project, one of the professors said yesterday.
James Akagi, chairman of the microbiology department, said that he and Del Shankel, professor of microbiology at Iowa State University, afterferm from Culture Farms Inc., 2220 Delaware St., accepting their grant proposal.
"They wanted to write a check to us personally, but we wanted it to go through the University like a grant." Akagi said yesterday. "So we dreeed in proposal and they gave me a check to the University for the first math's work."
But until yesterday afternoon, when the University received the letter, Akagi and Shankel could not use the money.
AKAGI SAID HE would begin quality control tests and research today on the company's bacteria. The company has decided to begin last Friday, he said.
The Consumer Protection Division of the attorney general's office last
week began an investigation of Culture Farms Inc. and its claims that consumers could more than double investments in the cultures
Consumers can buy kits to grow cultures from milk and cheese in their homes from Activator Supply Co., a Las Vegas firm. Culture Farms Inc. buys the harvested cultures and resells them to Cleopatra's Secret Inc., a Reno, Nev., cosmetic company.
In November, Culture Farms Inc. asked Akagi and Shankel to test the bacteria sent to the company from consumers.
NEIL WOERMAN, SPOKESMAN for the attorney general's office.
refused to comment yesterday on the progress of their investigation or say when it would be completed.
Chapman said he would tour the company tomorrow and meet with Christopher Mankuso, vice president of marketing for Culture Farms Inc.
Clyde Chapman, director of the Consumer Affairs Association in Canada, said he was conducting an investigation of Culture Farms Inc.
"The three companies involved are all relatively new." Chapman said. He had no complaints so far, but a lot of people invited me to invite them at their operation.
Athletes receive academic help, KUAC told
Efforts in the past two months to improve KU athletes' academic performances yesterday received high marks from the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board. In its first meeting of the semester, the KUAC board heard a progress report from Richard Lee, assistant
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athletic director for academic support on academic programs for University athletes. In August, the board had called for an improvement in athletes' academic performance.
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
"It was a collapse last August, when we had 10 football players ineligible," said Tony Redwood, board chairman of the team. "And then there are two reasons to come to the University: one, to play football or whatever."
sport; and two, to get a degree."
Lee, also the director of supportive educational services of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said his program had increased the number of athletes who pre-enrolled this semester by about 3 percent from last fall and had increased progress reports from faculty and from tutors
Lee said progress reports from athletes' instructors had been successful because of faculty response.
Groups argue intent of labor disputes act
last semester, he said, 468 of 512 faculty members responded to at least one of two progress report requests.
By United Press International
FOUR-WEEK REPORTS for freshmen and sophomore athletes enrolled in math and English courses will be mailed to instructors.
Lee said study skills and reading workshops, personal and career counseling and a placement conference were being planned for athletes.
TOPEKA — State laws regulating contract bargaining between public employees and their employers unintentionally give employees the impression they have the right to collective bargaining, a House committee was told yesterday.
The 1971 Public Employer-
Employee Relations Act applies to state and municipal divisions of the Board of Regents institutions.
The House Labor and Industry Committee has scheduled hearings this week and next on a bill that would retract the wording in the act that indicates collective bargaining is called for in labor disputes with government employees.
BILL KAUFFMAN, GENERAL counsel for the Board of Regents, yesterday told the committee the current bargaining act for public employees is not what the Legislature intended.
"What the Legislature intended in 1971 was 'meet and concur', which connotes an exchange of ideas between the employee and the employer, with the employer making the final decision." Kauffman said. "Collective bargaining has the connotation that employers and employees will exchange ideas with the expectation that an agreement or an impasse will reached."
The matter was brought to a head by a labor dispute between the Regents and the 8,000 Kansas-National Education Association affiliated employees at Pittsburg State University.
A LEGISLATIVE inter committee study concluded in November 1984, that the Legislature never intended to allow public employees in Kansas to have the right to collective bargaining.
However, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in 1983 that the wording of the 1971 act spells out the guidelines of a collective bargaining law, not a "meet and confer" law.
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