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UNIVERSITY DALLY KANSAN
KU's first comptroller plans retirement in middle August
By Susan White
Special to the Kansan
Keith Nitcher, University of Kansas director of business and fiscal affairs, knows the time has come to take a step in a new direction.
"Isn't there a saying that you should quit while you're ahead?"
Nitcher, who has been at KU for 36 years, will retire in the middle of August.
Nitcher came to KU on March 1, 1957 after working at the department of administration in Topeka for about three years.
He began his career at the University as the first comptroller. The comptroller handles accounting for the payrolls and writes the pay reports.
Nitcher was promoted in 1969 from comproller to a higher financial position.
competitor to a higher financial position.
"I became the vice chancellor of finance."
I became the vice chancellor of finance, which was a broader job than being comptroller. I supervised all financial and budgeting matters and was controller of accounting." he said.
As director of business and fiscal affairs, Nitcher assisted Chancellor Gene Budig with financial matters for KU and the KU Medical Center. He also reported actions taken by the Board of Regents to the University.
Nitcher said many things had changed on campus since he first came to KU. One of the biggest changes, he said, was the growth in the student population.
"When I came to KU in 1957 there were fewer than 10,000 students," he said.
Not only were there fewer students in 1957, but the residence halls on Daisy Hill had not yet been built.
The years also have brought about a change in technology, mainly the creation of computers, he said.
"Before I only had a 13-column pad of paper and a lead machine to do the accounting." he said. "And of course, I had an adding machine." Nitcher said there were several things he would miss about KU—especially the people.
"I certainly enjoyed the people I worked with, including my immediate staff and the administration," he said. "I will also miss seeing the new students—watching them grow and leave for new things in their fields of study. It's like a renewal of life. A new crop of students."
Nitcher also said he would miss working on all the activities he was involved in including work with the Kansas Union and the Athletic
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said Nitcher was valuable to the University
"He was very instrumental to the department." Meyen said. "He had good initiatives for working with new facilities. When resources were slim he was the one to move ahead and push on."
Meyen also said that Nitcher was a leader in the area of finance. "He was one of those unusual people who could look at a problem and see solutions," he said. "He was one of the key problem solvers on campus."
Meyen said he was grateful for all the work Nitcher had done.
"He will be missed," he said.
KU researchers to visit Nicaragua to study culture
By Carlos Telada
Kansan staff writer
Despite recent turnover in Nicaragua, the 12 researchers in the Latin American Studies Association summer field seminar plan to research with the country's writers and professors.
Charles Stansifer, professor of history and leader of the LASA seminar, said the recent attacks by contra rebels on government installations were a sign of poverty and not of full-blown civil unrest.
"It's not so much an ideological issue," he said. "It's more of an external protest of economic conditions."
Stansifer said the seminar, which leaves Saturday for Nicaragua, was designed to allow researchers of Latin American issues to meet academic sources. LASA is a national organization of Latin American specialists.
"It's not only a question of finding sources," he said of the forms of funding contacts.
he said. It is a question of forming contacts. Such visits are helpful both in research and learning about the country, said Barbara Waggoner, research associate for the Latin American studies department. Waggoner, who will
go with the group, visited Nicaragua in 1981 when tensions were high. She said she remembered seeing soldiers for both the Somoza government and the Sandinista rebels in every part of the country.
"You didn't know which side you were lookin' at." she said.
Waggoner said that the situation now was not much different as far as the common people were concerned but that the people still had hope.
"When you have a huge population that is deeply poor and desperate for remedies, you're not going to jump off a cliff," she said.
She said she was returning to revise a book she had written about education in Central America.
Not everybody who is going is a returning visitor to Nicaragua, said Greta Ryan, Lawrence graduate student. She said she was going to interview women who fought in the revolution the Sandinistas won in 1981. She said she also wanted to learn about the people and culture of Nicaragua.
"Instead of getting a one-sided view. I'll have a very broad perspective when I come back," she said.
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City discusses day care locations
By Katie Greenwald
Kansan staff writer
The City Commission last night discussed the operation of several day care homes on 23rd Street Terrace and directed the city attorney to look into the legality of the location of the operations.
The commissioners said they were concerned because Rosemary Valderge, Lawrence resident, operated several day care homes in one area.
On behalf of the neighborhood, Keith Johnson and Mark Elliott had written a letter to the commission. They said their main concern was that increased traffic posed a threat to their children.
Valverde runs three day care homes, two of which are on W. 23rd St. Terrace. Valverde plans to move the third
to a house adjacent to the other two.
City code defines a day care home as "an occupied residence in which a person provides day care for children other than his or her own family and the children of close relatives." The code says no more than 12 children may be cared for in each home.
Each home cares for a different age group and is licensed separately by the state, Valerde said.
But Commissioner Jo Andersen said she thought the separate day care homes actually were turning into one more large facility that has created more traffic in the area.
"People live in a residential area so they don't have to deal with traffic" she said.
Price Banks, director of planning for Lawrence and Douglas County, said that the planning commission could
rewrite the provision, but that it would not affect Valderde's business
"We can't zone retroactively." Banks said.
He said the intent of the code was to preserve the character of a residential area. The day care home must be maintained primarily as a residence. The owner is not required to reside at the home, but someone must live there. Valverde rents out the properties to tenants but runs the businesses.
Banks said Valverde was following the letter of the law. The commissioners were concerned that the intent of the law was different from the actual wording.
The commission voted to refer the matter to the city attorney about the legal wording and to the planning commission for the land use issue.
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