University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 15, 1992
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Search for vice chancellor may take another 7 months
By Janet Rorholm
Kansan staff writer
It looks as though Del Shankel will remain in Strong Hall for at least another seven months.
The biochemistry professor has been interim executive vice chancellor for a year and a half, since Judith Kendall was appointed for a permanent replacement began.
Frances Ingemann, who heads the search committee to find a permanent executive vice chancellor, said that Chancellor Gene Budig would like to see the position filled by July 1, but that the chance of that happening was slim
The committee has advertised the position nationwide since October and has received about 60 applications, Ingemann said.
The deadline for applications is Jan.
20, she said.
"The range of candidates is very broad," Ingemann said. "Some look as if their qualifications are very strong; others don't have the academic skills that we think are needed for the position."
The committee hopes to narrow the list of applicants to aid Budig in his decision.
Resignations change GLSOK guard
By Shelly Solon
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas begins the semester with two new directors. A string of resignations makes this the fourth change of leadership for the group in just two years.
Kansan staff writer
GLSOK elected Troy Aldaider, Lawrence senior, and Janet Pray, Lawrence sophomore, as new co-directors.
Jamie Howard, Lawrence senior, and Rob Taylor, Missoula, Mont., senior, resigned as co-directors of the group at the end of November
"The position took up a lot of time, and I did it for about a year," Howard said. "I decided to step down and let someone else take the position. It wasn't that I didn't like it."
Kevin asked questions of Alldafer that there was no hostility behind the resignations.
"There's a lot of pressure on the directors," he said. "Just dealing with the issue of homosexuality and coming out
makes it difficult. Facing emotional difficulties while trying to keep an organization going and keeping programs organized makes the position very tough."
Mike Sullivan, Lawrence senior and a former GLSOK co-director, said the frequent changes in leadership occurred because directors often burned out. Sullivan is still a GLSOK member.
"The position is very time consuming, and most people don't realize how much is really involved until they are directors," he said. "You're expected to be all things to all people. Burnout is high."
Sullivan said most people did not realize how much GLSOK offered its members and the campus and how much work was involved in serving the community.
"As a director, you get requests from everyone, from the group, from the community and from the administration," he said.
Sullivan said lack of support and lack of acceptance from the community put an extra burden on the directors.
Lack of consumer participation threatens recovery from recession, analysts say
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Disappointing Christmas sales pushed the nation's retail sales lower for a third straight month in December, holding the advance for all of 1991 to the smallest in 30 years.
Analysts saw little chance for improvement before summer due to Americans' worries over jobs and incomes. Some said the report, which also showed sales had been worse than first thought in October and November, could mean the economy had slipped back into recession.
In December, the Commerce Department said, sales totaled a seasonally adjusted $151.2 billion, down from $151.7 billion in November. It was the third straight disappointing holiday shopping season, which many retailers count on for half of their
annual sales and profits.
The department also calculated that sales had fallen 0.5 percent in November and 0.1 percent in October. Originally, November's sales had been reported as rising 0.3 percent; October's were first reported as unchanged from the previous month.
For the year, sales totaled $1.8 trillion,
a gain of 0.7 percent after a 3.8
percent advance in 1990. Last year's
gain is based once again because a
gain percentage in 1990.
Kermit Baker, an economist with Cahners Economics in Newton, Mass., suggested that the economy was flat in the October-December period.
"It could tip either way," he said,
but "it's not so hard that we'll bounce off fourth base."
Because retail sales account for
one-third of the nation's economic activity, a lack of consumer participation threatens any recovery from the recession
"Until the economy gets a boost from Washington, consumer confidence will continue to drag, and as long as consumer confidence is weak, the retail sector will remain in the drums," said John M. Albertine, head of a Washington economic forecasting service.
Baker contended, however, that falling interest rates, which already have captured the attention of other economic sectors by mid-year.
Department store sales fell last month 2.2 percent after edging up 0.6 percent in November. Apparel sales were down 0.7 percent after remaining flat a month earlier.
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