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KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.123
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1993
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KU students may pay by the hour
Committee sanctions tuition plan
By Dan England Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A proposal that would have KU students pay their tuition by the credit hour passed a Board of Regents committee yesterday.
The Tuition and Fee Committee passed the proposal, which would charge all students who are Kansas residents by the credit hour in the 1994-95 academic year. Currently, only undergraduate students who take between one and six credit hours are charged a $52 per-hour fee. Part-time graduate students are charged $66 per hour.
Students taking seven hours or more are charged full tuition, $728 a
Tuition is charged to students with the assumption that each one of those students is taking 15 hours a semester. However, the average number of credit hours a KU student takes is 14. Eakim said.
"We think that someone who is taking 21 hours ought to be paying more than someone who is taking 10," he said.
But some students must average 15 hours in order to graduate in four years either because the student does not have enough money to pay for an extra semester or because the student attends a professional school that requires a lot of hours, Eakin said.
"We recognize the problem that some students face," he said.
The proposal would affect Regents institutions in different ways. Students from Kansas State University also would be charged by the credit
hour. Those from Fort Hays State University and Wichita State University only would pay by the hour if they were taking less than 15 hours. Pittsburgh State and Emporia State universities would not charge by the credit hour.
KU does not want a cutoff of 15 hours because of students who abuse the add-drop system, Eakin said. Those students who are charged for extra hours may think twice about taking 18 hours and then dropping a class each semester, he said.
inose students are blocking access to classes that other students
Jennifer Hanlon, student body president of Emporia State, and Jim Allen, student body president of Pittsburgh State, said their student bodies were against the proposal.
students who can't afford to take more than 12 hours because of the fee may have to take an extra semester," Hanlon said.
The proposal must be approved by the full Board of Regents.
Tuition proposal would mean give and take
If the Board of Regents approves the tuition by the credit-hour system, in-state students who take more than 14 credit hours would face tuition increases while those who take between seven and 14 credit hours would pay less. Tuition would stay the same for students who take six hours or fewer.
In other business, Chancellor Gene
Source: Kansan staff research
Budig spoke to ask the Regents to use a reasonable portion of the 1994-95 academic year tuition increase, which has not yet been determined, for increases in faculty salaries.
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at a peer institution, Bung said, he said he thought that students would support an increase every year for several years to bring the salaries back up to 100 percent.
A faculty member earns, on average,
89 percent of the salary of a colleague
"I believe students are willing to invest in faculty," he said.
Women's team draws 2,650 to field house
Largest crowd of season turns up for NCAA game
By Todd Seifert
Kansan staff writer
The KU women's basketball team received a pleasant surprise when it entered the court for its pregame warm-ups before playing California at Allen Field House last night.
The Jayhawks, who lost to California 62-47 in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, were greeted with the cheers of 2,650 fans.
The Jayhawks averaged about 900 fans a game this season.
"Everybody on the team was wondering how big the crowd would be," said KU guard Jo Wittspoon, who played in front of her ever played in front of her at home.
The crowd ranked as the fourth largest to see a women's game in field house history. The record was set Jan. 1, 1981, when 3,750 fans watched the Jayhawks play Kansas State.
The largest attendance of the season before last night was Feb. 28, when KU defeated K-State 77-45. Attendance at that game was 2,100.
"We needed them tonight," she said.
"It's good experience for players,
especially the younger ones, to play in
front of good crowds like this."
Kansas coach Marian Washington said she wanted to thank the fans for their support.
California coach Gooch Foster said her team was used to playing in front of large crowds.
California had an average attendance of 1,159 this season. A California record of 4,208 people watched the Golden Bears defeat Stanford Feb. 12.
Sean Larsen, a Lawrence graduate student at the game, said he decided to attend because of the tournament game's importance.
"Let's face it," he said. "You don't get a chance to see an NCAA tournament game very often, especially at home."
arger-than-usual attendance, more than 13,000 seats in the field house were empty.
Kelly Fults, St. Louis junior, who regularly attends KU women's games, said the large number of empty seats for such an important game was discouraging.
"It looks like a pretty good crowd, but I'm kind of upset," Fults said. "This is the NCAA tournament. It's a great accomplishment for the team. They worked really hard all season and only a few fans showed up."
Shawn Brose, Easton junior, another regular attender, said some people thought women's basketball was not as exciting as the men's game.
Despite the game's importance and
A lot of people think the women play scared and the game isn't as fast as the men's game." Brose said. "That's not the case. The women's game is really faster than the men's game because of the 30-second clock."
Witherspoon, a senior, said she was pleased with the size of the crowd for her last game as a Jayhawk.
Women's intercollegiate basketball uses a 30-second shot clock. Men's intercollegiate basketball use a 45-second shot clock.
"I hope a lot of fans come out to the regular season games next year and cheer the team on," she said.
Above left: Senior guard Jo Jo Witherspoon mourns the imminent loss to California in the last minutes of the first round game of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. Above: An estimated crowd of 2,650 fans cheer on the Jayhawks. The crowd was the largest this season and the fourth largest in the program's history. The Jayhawks lost last night 62-47.
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Students ask to split Senate Graduate legislators want own council
By Frank McCleary Kanean staff writer
The Graduate Student Council unanimously passed a proposal Tuesday to formally separate from Student Senate.
According to the council's proposal, it would have the authority to make all appointments of graduate students to University governance positions. Student Senate makes the appointments now. The proposal also requests that the Office of Student Affairs channel graduate student fees directly to the Graduate Senate.
A designated percentage then would be shared with Student Senate for issues of joint concern, such as student health care and transportation. If the legislation passes Senate, it then would be sent to University Council for approval.
Legislation to formally establish an independent Graduate Student Senate will be proposed this semester to Student Senate.
Chris O'Brien, executive coordinator of Graduate Student Council, said the independent senate could be established as early as next semester.
"It's a question of autonomy and representing graduate student interests," O'Brien said. "There is a feeling among graduate students that they are not being represented well enough by Student Senate."
"There is no reason to believe that it won't happen by the end of the 1993 calendar year," he said.
The proposal listed increased responsibility and better representation for graduate students as two reasons for creating the separate legislative body.
The time commitment required for Student Senate activities makes it difficult for graduate students to participate in Student Senate meetings, he said.
"We do about as well as other groups," he said.
Arnust Lange, who heads the Student Senate Executive Committee, said the proposal was a good idea.
"The two senates together could function more effectively," she said.
Senate will discuss the issue at its next two meetings, March 31 and April 14.
We need to have some discussion on how it will affect the Senate." she said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said how students organize their representation was up to them.
"It's perfectly legitimate for students to have discussion and debate as to how they organize their representation," he said. "The administration is interested in having an effective means for the students to express their concerns to the University."
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KU microbiology may lose AIDS researcher
By Carlos Tejada
Special to the Kansan
A KU professor who has brought almost $1.3 million to KU over seven years for his AIDS research may be the fifth professor to leave the department of microbiology in four years.
Charles Wood, professor of microbiology, still is employed by KU but has been on leave since Fall 1992 to do research at the University of Miami, where he is looking for ajob. He said he had interview appointments at the university.
"There's always a possibility down here," he said.
Wood's lab in Haworth Hall, which used to run 24 hours a day and seven days a week and employed five graduate students, now only uses two graduate students. The other three work with Wood in Miami. The lab now closes occasionally.
Bruce Atkinson, Topeka graduate student and lab assistant for Wood, said he
expected that the lab would move to Miami before the beginning of fall semester
wood said he was researching at Miami because of its high number of AIDS patients and the large Hispanic population, the at-risk group he is studying.
But he also cited a lack of state support for KU's department of microbiology as a reason to seek employment elsewhere.
"The University in general is underfunded by the state, as far as research goes," he said.
Wood's research at KU has involved both HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and BIV, a similar virus in cattle. Because of its similarity to HIV, he said, BIV could unlock important information about AIDS.
His research has won Wood and KU $1.28 million in grants from government agencies and pharmaceutical companies since 1986.
It's hard for me to maintain an effective
He said the lack of state funding impeded his research.
program," he said. "It's very frustrating."
"It hasn't been able to in the past several years because of the support of the state," he said.
Most laboratory research is financed by private or federal grants, Wood said. However, a lack of state support may weaken the ability of laborers to win grants difficult for the department to win grants.
Wood said that the situation had driven away faculty members in the past.
"The primary reason is inadequate state support," he said.
"Microbiology has been one of the major victims of the ability to recruit and maintain faculty," he said.
Del Shankel, professor of biochemistry and former acting executive vice chancellor, agreed with Wood about the faculty situation.
Now, the department suffers from the lack of a "critical mass of individuals" because of four empty faculty positions, he said.
Undergraduates in microbiology still are getting a good education, he said. However, a lack of professors has taken time away from research, a development that has hurt graduate students.
"We're all doing a lot of teaching." Shankel said. "It's all very busy. We're not able to offer the graduate opportunities that we want to."
However, Clarence Buller, professor of microbiology and acting head of the department, said state funding was not the reason for a lack of grant money.
"In general, federal funding is very hard to get," he said. "That's not here, that's all over."
He said the lack of grant money was not limited to the department of microbiology.
"That's true for the university as a whole, although there are some departments that do not."
State support shouldn't be a valid reason for Wood to leave, Buller said. "I would be astounded if that is the reason," he said.