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Tuesday. April 6,1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Tuition increase for KU nears decision
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
As the state's legislative session winds down this week, a Regents university budget bill that includes a sizable tuition increase for KU students is nearing the governor's desk.
If Gov. Joan Finney signs the bill, in-state undergraduate students next year would pay an additional $143, an 8 percent increase. Out-of-state undergraduates would face a $597 annual increase, a 10 percent difference.
Those increases are part of a trend in which students are paying a bigger share of what it costs to educate them as the state picks up a smaller portion of the tab.
This year's tuition increases are sizable but necessary, say administrators, state legislators and student leaders.
"I'm adamantly opposed to tuition increases," said Brad Garlinghouse, KU student body president. "But at the same time, I'm adamantly in favor of better quality education."
Tuition must increase to maintain quality educa
tion and to keep up with the spiraling costs of higher education, Garlinghouse and others say.
Chancellor Gene Budig said that it also was necessary to raise tuition in order to raise faculty salaries so that the University could attract and retain top-notch faculty.
Budig has testified before legislative committees this legislative session that faculty salaries were only 90 percent of those at KIU's new institutions.
The Regents bill that would raise tuition also would raise faculty salaries by 2.5 percent.
"Tutition and fees will rise significantly in the years to come. "Budget said. The issue is to what use these increases will be put."
as tuition rises in coming years, it is likely that students will continue to pay a bigger share of the University's educational costs as the state pays less.
A student this year will pay an estimated 38.7 percent of what it costs to educate that student. The rest of the costs are covered by money in the state's general fund.
said students probably would continue to pay more as the state paid less because of difficult economic times facing Kansas.
Ten years ago, students paid 23.4 percent. State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, who is head of the House Appropriations Committee.
And while legislators, Regents and KU officials agree that tuition needs to be increased, they have disagreed on how much of the burden out-of-state students should bear.
Chronister and Shirley Palmer, head of the Board of Regents, said tuition at KU would continue to increase because the University still was considered a bargain in comparison with its peer institutions and other Big Eight universities. KU's undergraduate tuition is the lowest in the conference.
Garlingham, Budig and the Board of Regents this legislative session have encouraged the Legislature to increase out-of-state student tuition at the same 8 percent rate that was proposed for in-state students. The Legislature raised that request to a 10 percent increase for out-of-state students.
"It was my hope and dream that we would be able to avoid dramatic increases," Palmer said. "But they are necessary in order to maintain quality in the classroom, and I think students can understand that."
Tuition may be raised again
Here is how tuition has increased during the past five years. If a proposed bill passes the Kansas State Legislature, tuition would increase next year 8 percent for Kansas residents and 10 percent for out-of-state students
Source: University of Kansas Profiles
Daniel Ntien / KANSAN
Issues in architecture
By Terrilyn McCormick Kansan staff writer
Students, faculty and administrators in the School of Architecture gathered yesterday at an all-school forum in hopes of relieving tensions over minority students' interests and sexual harassment.
sax Luctus, dean of architecture, did not attend the forum because he was in New Orleans for the NCAA tournament.
The forum, sponsored by the KU chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students, was attended by two members of the school's administration, 13 faculty members and about 100 students.
Calvin Jones, a junior who led the discussion about minority affairs in the school, said the school's history program was focusing on Europe and ignoring other parts of the world.
"Minority students are studying European architecture that they can't relate to because this is not part of our culture," Jones said.
Dennis Domer, associate dean of architecture, said European culture always had dominated the study of architecture.
Jones said study abroad programs the school offered also meted non-European nations.
"Traditionally, architecture has been Euro-based," Domer said. "It will change slowly as we gain faculty who have other skills in non-European cultures."
Domer said that the department was planning to set up a program in a Latin American nation in the future but that the school's options were limited because of financial constraints.
Margaret Marshall, the business leadership
Judith Martin, associate professor of architecture, led the discussion
on sexual harassment.
She said that late nights and tremendous pressure in the studios often created situations prone to sexual harassment. Mine said harassment did not just harm in the studios.
Major said harassment has not just happen in the "I'm sure there have been times when all the women faculty members have come up against sexual harassment from other faculty members," she said.
Domer said he was not aware of any situations of sexual harassment between faculty.
The forum provided no solutions, but lines of communication between students, faculty and administration were opened. Domer said.
"in a very fast-paced school there is a tremendous amount of pressure," he said. "This can create a large amount of false information. The answer is to improve the student's understanding of the process, and I think that was accomplished today."
Mike Cummings, Overland Park senior, speaks at the School of Architecture forum on minority issues and sexual harassment. Two members of the school's administration, 13 faculty members and about 100 students attended yesterday's forum, which was sponsored by the KU chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students.
Students aim to create chapter of minority group
By Terrilyn McCormick
Kansas staff writer
Tamara Woods, St. Louis sophomore, found out in her first-year architecture studio that she was one of kind.
She was the only African-American female in her class.
Woods said she needed a means of support as a minority in a predominantly white school.
There are 15 minority students in the School of Architecture, which has 759 students.
Woods and a group of other minority students are trying to establish a KU chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students.
Calvin Jones, junior and organizer of the group, said that he saw a need for a change in the school and that he had a strong desire to organize minority students.
Woods said she thought the school was not aware of minority students' views.
"We hope to give this school a minority perspective," she said. "This is something this school has not had in the past."
Hobart Jackson, associate professor of architecture and adviser for the group, said some attempts had been made to form a minority group in the past.
Now that they have a national organization to affiliate with it, it should give them an anchor and a greater sense of continuity that they were unable to establish before," Jackson said.
The first goal of the organization is to get the group chartered with the national organization. To charter the group, it must base seven dues-paying members.
The group has met three times but does not have enough members.
not have enough training. Jones said the group also planned to focus on minority retention by offering a peersupport group and a tutoring service.
The groups eventually would like to work on recruiting more minority faculty.
Two minority professors now work in the school.
Club director was dedicated to city's youth
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Specialize to the Konson
Special to the Kansan
Lyle Dane Floyd, the unit director for the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence, died Friday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after an apparent heart attack.
Floyd, 33, had worked with community service projects for KU sororites and fraternities.
"He was one of the most outstanding persons I'd ever met," said Jill Harber, Mission Hills junior and Chi Omega sorority member. "He was a role model for me."
Floyd was associated with many Lawrence youth programs. He served on the Southwestern Regional Program Institute Planning Committee for Boys and Girls and was a coach for the Lawrence Junior High Boys Parks and Recreation League. He was also a volunteer for the Douglas County United Way, a past member of the Lawrence Jaycees and served on local school committees.
Floyd, who had worked for the club for 13 years, was in charge of the day-to-day youth operations.
Floyd also worked for Mayflower Contract Services Inc. in Lawrence for three years.
"He had been one of the most caring and most effective youth workers I'd ever known," said John Alesch, executive director for the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
"He was dedicated to the youth of the community more than anyone could imagine," said Bob Russell, contract manager for the company.
Floyed was born Oct. 25, 1959, in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kenneth Stirling on Floyd,
Survivors include his fiancee, Vivian Tubbs, and a son, Sherrod Floyd, both of Lawrence.
Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. A reception will follow at the Boys and Girls Club, 1520 Haskell Ave. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 tonight at Warren-McElwain Mortuary, 120 W. 13th St.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence and sent to the mortuary.
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