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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101.NO.145
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1992
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Culture construction
Construction of Lied Center, KU's new performing arts building, should be completed for a scheduled September 1993 dedication, officials said. The $14.7 million structure will be home to the concert series, SUA events, Rock Chalk Revue and faculty lectures. Story, page 3.
GTAs battle for status
University of Kansas graduate employees are preparing for an October hearing with the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board. The board will determine whether graduate student employees are classified as public employees or as students.The graduate employees cannot vote to form a union until the board recognizes them as public employees.
Story, page 6.
Center selection starts
The selection process is under way for the committee that will decide the mission of the new multicultural center at KU. Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affairs, said he was hoping to have the committee chosen by the end of the summer. Story. page 5.
Story, page 5.
New vice chancellor prepares to face issues
By Kristi Klepper Kansan staff writer
After six years as dean of education, Edward Meyen will assume the position of executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas on July 15.
Meyen will take over the position from Del Shankel, who has been serving as interim executive vice chancellor since the summer of 1990.
To prepare for the new job, Meyen is going through an informal orientation process with Shankel. By attending the executive vice chancellor's meetings and briefings, Shankel said that Meyen would have the opportunity to participate in decisions on issues that he will deal with when he takes office.
Meyen said he also was doing his own research for the position.
"I'm holding conversations with different people on campus to try to determine perceptions and expectations of the job so I have a better understanding of campus-wide concerns," he said.
Meyen said that he would wait until he got into office to determine his personal goals for the position but that he hoped to enhance administrative efforts that are already under way.
Shankel said that the executive vice chancellor was expected to be involved in all aspects of the Lawrence campus, from the budget to controversial issues.
Meyen said, "It presents new challenges in the broader range of university-wide responsibilities."
Looking back on his tenure in the School of Education, Meyen said he would miss working closely with colleagues to accomplish goals that yielded quick and visible results.
In his new role, Meyen will be dealing with more people
and with projects that require long-term attention.
Meyen said he recognized that as executive vice chancellor he would face more complicated problems and issues, which would take longer to resolve. One of these is the review of the University's degree programs required by the Board of Regents.
"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to play a role in helping the institution address significant issues." Meyen said. "This is a good institution, and we should be able to draw on resources from faculty and students to meet the challenges facing us."
Meyen came to KU in 1973 as chairperson of the department of special education. In 1978 he was named associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service. Since 1986, Meyen has served as dean of education. Meyen earned his doctorate from the University of Iowa
Fee payment off to late start
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Students gather in front of Wescoe Hall and wait for the distribution of fee payment cards, which was delayed by a tangle in the printing process. Because of the slow start, the lines of students stretched onto Jayhawk Boulevard.
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Lucas Packard, 2, holds a sign as part of the protest against the outcomes of both the Christopher Bread and Gregg Sevier cases.
Protesters decry verdict in American-Indian death
Rights group 'Walks Across America' from N.Y. to protest racial injustice
About 50 demonstrators gathered at the Douglas County Courthouse Friday to protest the outcome of the trial involving the 1990 hit-and-run killing of Christopher Bread, an American-Indian man.
The jury failed to reach a verdict on a felony count of aggravated vehicular homicide but convicted the defendant, Marvin Schlaif, 19, of Lawrence,
Kansan staff report
The protesters attended a press conference organized by Walk Across America, a group that is walking from New York City to the Nevada desert to protest racial injustice and mistreatment of the environment. The group stopped in Leavenworth Thursday, and when members heard of the local trial they decided to come to Lawrence, members said.
on a misdemeanor charge of leaving
the scene of an accident.
Kati Punnett, St. Louis resident and member of Walk Across America, said she had attended Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence for more than a year.
"The reason I left Lawrence was because I was afraid," she said.
Her view was echoed by Ruth Kyleo.
Lawrence.
"There are a lot of Native Americans in Lawrence who don't feel safe here," she said.
Kyle said she was outraged by the recent trial involving Bread's death and by the 1991 Lawrence police shooting of Gregg Sevier, also an American Indian. She said the incidents were examples of police negligence and brutality, and she compared Lawrence to the recent situation in Los Angeles.
She said she would continue to try to focus attention on the issue.
"This is not a local story any more," she said. "You can't kill us right now. Everybody's watching."
Printer's error causes delays, upsets students
By Anne Grego
Kansan staff writer
Yesterday, Claudia Bussman-Burris went through fee payment for the first time at KU.
She arrived in front of Wescoe Hall at 11:50 to make sure she was there in plenty of time to pick up her fee payment card at noon. Unfortunately, her card did not arrive for another hour.
"I think it's rude. They could have taken care of business before," said Bussman-Burris, graduate student in social welfare.
By 12:05 p.m. the crowd flowed down the steps in front of Wescoe Hall, down the sidewalk and out onto Jayhawk Boulevard. Police were called to move waiting students off the street.
The tables were moved closer to the windows in front of Wescoe's auditorium so more people could get on Wescoe's sterrace and out of the street.
A computer printer problem caused the fee payment cards to arrive late at Wescoe.
Yesterday, employees at the computer center realized the fee cards would not be ready. They had the cards printed at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, said Wes Williams, dean of educational services.
One batch of cards made it to Lawrence at about noon, and were sorted and being distributed to students by 12.10. The second batch, with higher KUID numbers, came later, causing students like Bussman-Burris to wait up to 50 minutes, said Williams.
About 20 extra staff people from the department of educational services helped with the situation, Williams said. Administrators and Office of Admissions staff walked through the crowd, trying to explain the situation to students and answer any questions.
"We don't like lines any more than the students do," said Jobe Rademacher, assistant registrar.
While students had questions about what lines were for which KUID numbers, most were tired of waiting in lines. Others accepted it as just part of KU's system.
Within an hour and a half, the long lines in front of Wescoe had cleared and moved to the Union.
Students with high KUID numbers waited in a line that at times stretched across the Jayhawk Room and through the Kansas Union Ballroom.
When lines got long, extra personnel helped get the line moving quicker. Williams said.
The new mail-in fee payment system is expected to eliminate some of yesterday's problems, Williams said.
A typographical error in the Summer 1992 Timetable caused few problems during Monday's new, readmitted and residual enrollment, according to Brenda Selman, assistant registrar.
The error, which reported that enrollment began on June 2 rather than on June 1, appeared on pages six and 13.
The error was found in March before timetables were distributed to students. The registrar's office quickly went to work to inform students of the problem.
Corrections were distributed next to the timetables in the unions. Fliers were posted on the bulletin boards on campus and at the enrollment center.
CAMPUS SNAPSHOT
Because a boat can cost more than $14,000. Crew is the most costly sport club at KU. More than $9,000 of the crew budget provides rent for the boat house.
Campus fees help KU's 31 sports clubs
Kansan staff report
Sports clubs, although founded on the spirit of fun and play, can be big business at the University of Kansas.
Part of the student campus fee paid during registration each semester is earnured for recreation services, which in turn finances the clubs, some of which require more revenue than others. According to the 1992 University budget, the top 10 clubs in terms of money received have a combined support in excess of $45,000. KU Crew received the most money, with an allocation of $14,360.
Gordon Kratz, assistant director of recreation services, said that there were 31 sports clubs registered at the University, with about 25 of them receiving student campus fee financing. He said that revenue for sports clubs allocated from student fees during fiscal year 1992 totaled $69,450 but that not all that money necessarily was given to the clubs right away.
"We try to spend as much as we can," he said.
But any undistributed funds are placed in a reserve account. He said
he would not know for about another month how much of the $69,450 had been disbursed to clubs.
kratz said that during the fall and spring semesters, $9 of each student's campus fees went to finance recreation services. Of that amount, $1.50 goes to sports clubs; $4.50 goes to maintenance of the recreation services office, and $3.00 goes to maintenance of Robinson Center. During the summer, those amounts are half of the fall and spring intake, he said.
Even though the student fee money is allocated according to the Student
Which club costs the most?
Senate Rules and Regulations, the amounts actually allocated do not match the amounts specified in the rules, according to Kevin Sigourney, Senate treasurer. Section 7.2.1 of the 1991-92 Student Senate Rules and Regulations calls for a total of $13.50 in student campus fees to be paid to recreation services, with $2.25 for sports clubs, $7.50 for maintenance of the office, and $3.75 for maintenance of Robinson. These amounts are in error, Sigourney said, the actual recreation services allocation being $9.
Source: University of
Kansas Budgot, 1992
Sean Tevis/Almee Brainard,
Daily Kansas