THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101.NO.99
1HURSDAY.FEBRUARY20,1992
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Lack of state support could drive another professor from KU
By Greg Farmer Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Another professor in the division of biological sciences is contemplating leaving the University of Kansas and will take federal grant funds with him if he goes, Chancellor Gene Budie said yesterday.
Budig and Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, explained KU's budget request to subcommittee House Appropriations Committee.
Budig was illustrating the need to increase faculty salaries when he said the professor could leave the University. Budig would not identify the professor.
"Two prominent faculty recently have announced their acceptance of employment at other institutions," he said. "Another, who has won significant federal grants, is on the verge of leaving. If he goes, the funds from those grants will go with him."
Michael Gaines, professor of biology, and Donald Robertson, professor of microbiology, announced last month that they would leave KU for positions at other universities in the fall. The professors cited a lack of state support as one of their reasons for leaving.
The University is concerned that the exodus of its best mid-career faculty will continue, Budig said.
He said one of the goals of the three-year Margin of Excellence, which was financed by the Legislature for only two of the three years, was to bring faculty salaries at KU to 100 percent of its peer institutions' faculty salaries.
"The year before the Margin began, KU salaries were at 88.6 percent of those of our peers," Budig said. "Our ratio improved to 92.1 percent in 1989-90. Unfortunately, we have slipped back to 88.8 percent, nearly where we stood before the Margin."
Shankel, who was a professor of microbiology and biochemistry before becoming the interim executive vice chancellor, said after the meeting that KU's best faculty members were being sought by other universities.
"I wish we could keep all of our best faculty members," he said. "I wish the Legislature would appropriate the money we need to pay our faculty competitive salaries. We will do all we can, but it is difficult when other institutions can offer them better compensation."
Shankel said he hoped the third professor would decide to stay at KU.
"We are still negotiating with him," he said.
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"We've reached the point where the people in Topeka better start listening."
michael Gaines Professor of biology
However, the professor has expressed concern that the state was not giving sufficient support to higher education. Shankel said.
"He is concerned in the same way the other two professors were concerned," he said. "These are tough people to replace. These three people we are talking about are three of the University's very best."
Shankel said the University would have to replace Gaines and Robertson with younger, less experienced instructors and researchers.
"We can replace them and we will," he said. "But we won't be able to replace them with people of their quality and experience."
Gaines said yesterday he knew who the professor was but that he would not release his name. He said the professor's name was from federal grants with him if he left KU.
"This isn't a done deal, yet," Gaines said. "This professor may leave, and the University will suffer if he does. We've reached the point where the people in Topeka better start listening."
"People like me would have stayed at KU if the future looked better."
Gaines said he expected other faculty to leave the University if state support didn't improve.
"This is going to become very common," he said. "The state better take notice and do something, or higher education in Kansas is in serious jeopardy."
State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, said she and other state lawmakers hated to see good faculty leave.
"But we are doing a balancing act," she said. "There isn't any state government who doesn't believe professors are worth more. We especially need them if the reason they leave is they don't think we appreciate what they do."
More legislative action, Page 3
Carole Miller, left and Kyla Miller, both of Champaign, III., listen to testimony given by former Kansas basketball player Mike Maddox.
NCAA authority at risk
State Senate bill may affect nation
By Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Discussion began yesterday about whether Kansas has the authority to change NCAA policy, and the outcome may decide a national issue about penalties the association can dish out.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee began two days of hearings about a bill that would regulate penalties handed down by the NCAA and require the organization to give due process to players and teams who are being penalized.
It also would ban penalties for a coach or player
Several other states have considered laws that would mandate due process for NCAA dealings. But Kansas is in a unique position to affect policy nationwide because the NCAA national headquarters are in Overland Park.
He testified about an amended version of a bill passed unanimously last session by the Senate.
"All we are interested in is making certain this organization complies with the U.S. Constitution,"
The amended bill would prohibit sanctions against a member college or university unless the NCAA could prove that a responsible administrator knowingly broke the rules.
who had not violated the rules.
The original bill passed last year by the Senate mandates that due process be considered in all instances of the NGI.
schools, not just when punishment is involved. Both versions are being considered by the House
Winter said the NCAA's use of institutional penalties punished an entire school for the crimes
"They turn enforcement on its head when they ignore the individuals who are really guilty," he said.
Winter said the bill presented a difficult legal question about whether the state had authority over the national organization. But he said he thought that because the NCAA's headquarters is situated in Overland Park, it was subject to state law
"The state in which an institution is located can govern in reasonable fashion the way that organization deals with others." he said.
Kansas is among a growing number of states that are considering due process legislation controlling the NCAA's procedures within their states.
Nevada, Illinois and Nebraska have enacted
such laws, and Florida passed a similar law that will go into effect July 1.
California and South Carolina are considering the due process legislation.
Burton Brody, a law professor at the University of Colorado and a former faculty representative to the NCAA, told the committee that the Kansas legislation was critical because it could control the organization's dealings with any member institution, not just with Kansas institutions.
"Your authority comes from the fact that they do business in the state," he said. "You can set standards for doing business. You can control them anywhere in the country."
Others testifying in favor of the bill were former KU track coach Bob Timmons and former KU basketball player Maddox.
"I am not here to lambaste the NCAA," Maddox said. "I think they do a lot of great things for many people. ... I am not here to complain because the University of Kansas got placed on probation. It is to protect the student at athletes in the future."
Maddox was a member of the 1988-89 team that the NCAA banned from defending its national championship because of recruiting violations. He was also dismissed from left-brown left the University after the 1987-88 season.
"Eleven players and four coaches were punished for violations they did not commit," Maddox said. "There must be some way to penalize the guilty."
Campus police's annual report shows drop in KU's crime rate
By Michelle Betts Kansan staff writer
The crime rate at the University of Kansas decreased by 18.2 percent from 1990 to 1991, according to KU police's annual report released yesterday.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative, said the could be attributed to several factors, including increased student efforts at guarding themselves and their property.
Not all crimes decreased. Six rapes were reported on campus last year, while there were no rapes reported in 1990, according to the report.
"All in all, I think there are people making a better effort to lock their doors," Mullens said. "It's really an individual effort."
Mullens said that although the department wanted the number of rapes to decrease, the fact that women were coming forward to report the crimes was a positive action.
Connie Burk, facilitator for Students Against Violence Against Womyn, said that women were raped every year and that it was significant that more women were reporting the crime.
Campus crime
"When no one reports rape, it shows people don't know what help is available." she said.
The number of people arrested for
The KU police department released its figures for last year's crime rates. Below are the number of cases reported in various categories, compared to the previous year:
Harassment by phone
1991 — 59
1990 — 150
61%
Source: KU police annual report
Michael Gler. Daily Kansas
drunken driving skyrocketed,
increasing 254.5 percent, from 11 in
190 to 39 in 1991, according to the
report.
Mullens said that officers were trained more intensely last year about what to look for in situations involving drunk drivers.
KU police reorganized their shift
schedules so that two of the department's three shifts work between 10:30 p.m. and 2 a.m., when drunk drives occurs more frequently.
Although theft is common, forced entry into rooms or buildings is not common, Mullens said. Only 14 of 550 thefts last year involved forced entry.
Theft and petty larceny were the most frequently reported crimes on campus, although 102 fewer thefts were reported last year than in 1990, according to the report.
Incidents of burglary, which include auto burglary, dropped 23 percent last year, according to the report. Crime continued to occur most often in campus parking lots.
MaryEllen Henderson, coordinator of KU on Wheels, said the bus service policy changed last year, requiring students to pay almost the full price for a replacement pass if the first pass was stolen.
Fewer KUIDs and KU on Wheels bus passes were reported stolen in 1991 than in past years.
"There have only been 8 to 10 stolen passes this year, whereas last year, they were in the hundreds," she said.
Two years ago, if students' passes were stolen, they could report the theft and buy a new pass for $7.50. Now, a student must purchase a replacement bus pass for $35, only $10 less than the original price of $45. Henderson said.
The No. 18 Jayhawks women's basketball team beat Nebraska 67-65 last night at Allen Field
last night at Allen Field
House, keeping sole poses-sion of first place in the Big Eight
Eight stacy Fruitt Conference
Conference.
Kansas was led by junior guard Stacy Truitt, who scored 18 points off the bench.
The No. 3 Kansas men's team lost in overtime to Nebraska 81-79 last night on a three-pointer at the buzzer.
Kansas battled back from a 15-point deficit, forcing the overtime.
Junior guard Adonis Jordan led the Jayhawks with 20 points.
Game stories, Page 9
Bush boosts campaign after victory in primary
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After a panicky scramble on New Hampshire primary
cal strategists settled yesterday for the theme that an 18-point victory wasn't 'that bad after all.' The White House kept up its happy face even as Bush's victory margin
Bush's victory margin slipped to 16 points.
"Good, we still won," White House press secretary Martin Fitzwater joked as official results came in late yesterday, showing President Bush with a victory margin of 33 percent to 37 percent. Earlier, unofficial tails had put the spread at 58 to 40.
Pointing at Buchanan's numbers, Fitzwater said, "He fell way below 40. He only got 37."
To avert another close call, Bush abandoned his hands-off approach with challenger Patrick Buchanan. Breaking his silence about Buchanan, Bush complained that he had been hammered by "Pat" and the Democrats.
White House officials were rattled
Spurred by Buchanan's strong showing, Bush operatives charted an aggressive tour that will keep the president on the campaign trail most days through the Super Tuesday array of primaries and caucuses March 10.
"I'm not taking anything for granted," Bush said on a political trip to Tennessee. "I'm going to stay out here across this country — and I've been in tough fights before — roll up my sleeves and go after them."
Tuesday by fast-changing exit polls in New Hampshire that showed a much closer outcome than the eventual margin of 53 percent to 37 percent.
"I admit I was a little tense... with a couple of reports I heard there," the president said.
Stunned by the numbers, the White House groped for a response but was paralyzed for hours by indecision. Strategists debated whether to bring Bush before the press, or leave the job to either campaign chair Robert Teeter or press secretary Fitzwater.
In the end, they settled on a written statement by the president, acknowledging that the race had been closer than expected.
A new message was firmed up by the time Bush stepped off Air Force One in Knovville yesterday.
"Some of these congressmen with me today said, 'Hey, since when has an 18-point victory been considered anything other than a landslide?' " Bush said.
Teeter, Republican National Committee Chair Rich Bond and deputy campaign manager Mary Matalin took the same message to the morning shows on network television.
"Only the pundits and the losers try to take a win and make it a loss," Bond said.
Teeter said it was a very decisive victory.
Bush had appeared dispirited Tuesday as reports of the exit polls circulated throughout the White House.
"The exit polls were wrong all day." Matalin said. "They had us at 50-50 all day."