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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 19, 1994
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Partnership may be dead, but raises are still possible
By Jamie Munn
Kansan staff writer
The Partnership for Excellence plan may be dead, but some administrators and faculty say hopes for salary increases are not buried.
David Shulenberger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the inequality of faculty salaries between KU and peer institutions was a problem that would eventually have to be addressed.
We want this to be a statistic that we can forget instead of it turning in faculty turnover. "Shulenberger said,
But the salary increase might come after all.
Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Board of Regents, said at the Regents meeting on Thursday that the State Legislature had allocated two lump sums to the Regents this session. Seven million dollars was allocated for base appropriations and $6.4 million was allocated for institutional enhancements. This money could be used to increase faculty salaries by the individual schools, he said.
Shulenberger said the $5.4 million, which will be divided among the six Regents schools, could cushion the blow of the Partnership veto.
"That's the piece we are going after now," he said. "Anytime we have an opportunity, we ought to take it."
Earlier this month, Gov. Joan Finney vetoed the Partnership for Excellence, which would have increased faculty salaries. The vet came after the Legislature voted not to allow Washburn University to become a Regents institution.
Shulenberger said many groups had been pressuring the Regents for extra money, but finding a remedy for salary inequities would be a high priority for KU and its administrators.
Professors at KU and around the state also are not ready to take the plan's defeat.
In a plea to the Board of Regents Thursday, Aruna Michie, Kansas State University professor and president of the Regents' Council of Presidents, said she would not give up the fight for faculty salary increases
"In one sense we feel we've lost part of the battle," she said. "We need this for morale retention."
Michie said she thought the entire $5.4 million should be used to support faculty salaries.
T. P. Srinivasan, head of the University Senate Executive Committee, voiced his concern about the death of the plan at a SenEx meeting on Wednesday.
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but not hopeless."
Srinivasan said the Regents had the authority and responsibility to allocate money for faculty salary increases.
Faculty salaries were only one of the University's priorities, Srinivasan said.
"If there is a winner here, it is Washburn," Srinivasan said. "It's free to conduct its business the way it wants without the constraints of the state."
Steve McCabe, faculty member of SenEx, said students were the losers of the failed plan.
McCabe said students would feel the pressure of increased tuition without the support of additional state funding.
"They had the feeling that they had their footstep in the door with faculty salaries, but now it's back to square one," McCabe said.
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Rose Lawson has worked at the snack bar in Murphy Hall for 10 years. She said that she knew almost everybody who stopped for snacks.
Friendliness is key to worker's popularity
By Susan White
Todd Lasala, a firstyear law student from Leawood, watches Scott Moore, election commission chair and Council Grove junior, flip a coin to decide whether he or Tyler Garretson, a firstyear law student from Wichita, will take a Senate seat. Lasala and Garretson, both of the You coalition, tied in the vote for the School of Law Senate seat in last week's elections. According to Senate rules, a tie is decided by a coin toss. Lasala chose heads and won the seat.
Kansan staff writer
Rose Lawson can identify most of her customers by name — and by what they eat.
"It saves time when you know just about what everybody wants and usually orders," she said.
Lawson, the University employee who runs Murphy Hall Concessions, said that she had served patrons, faculty and students at the location since 1984.
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"My husband and I ran a gas station for about 10 years, but we closed it, and I moved to the Hill," she said. "I started at Wescoe in 1981, then KU Concessions moved me here. I am glad I made the switch from the gas station. I love it here."
Lawson may open a can of juice for a customer she knows hasn't the fingernails for the job or know a customer's exact order. She said she had developed such special routines to keep up with the rush.
"When you work by yourself, you learn to slide on your feet a lot," she said.
Richard Reber, professor of piano, said that he could vouch for Lawson's familiarity with her customers.
"She has what I like to eat memorized," he said. "She sees me coming, and she knows what to get out. She even knows that I like raisin bagels for dessert."
Lawson said that the variety in customers made her job worthwhile.
In addition to her regular hours during the day, Lawson runs the concessions during musical and theater performances and the English Alternative Theatre productions.
"We're different down here," she said. "There is music on one side and theater on the other. It's a great building to work in. Everybody knows me down here."
"I open the concessions before the performances and during intermissions," she said. "I am pretty versatile in what I do."
Lawson said that she enjoyed her job so much that she had taken a total of three weeks sick-leave since she started working there.
"I have about 900 hours of sickleave I could use, but I probably won't use them," she said.
"This is my cup of tea. I don't know what I would do without it."
Tom Kostecki, Topeka graduate student, said Lawson's personality made dining in Murphy an enjoyable experience.
"She's always really friendly," he said. "It's always really nice to see somebody in the day who's always friendly. She also generally has a good idea what I want."
Steve Burk, Lawrence senior,
said he preferred the Murphy concessions stand to all other eating places on campus.
"Rose is great," he said. "She learns people's names and takes time to talk to them. I have eaten at the other places around campus, but they just don't have the same friendly atmosphere as here."
Death of KU student caused by aneurysm during soccer game
The Douglas County coroner ruled Sunday that the death of a KU student on Saturday was the result of a heart attack.
Douglas County coroner Carol Moddrell said James Thompson, Kirkwood, Mo., senior, died of a heart attack while playing in a fraternity soccer game.
Moddrell said Thompson died of an aneurysm, or clot, in
one of his coronary arteries.
"He had had a disease as a child that had damaged the blood vessel," she said.
The heart attack was not caused by an injury sustained during the soccer game. Moddrell said
Moddrell said she applauded the efforts of two students who preformed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Thompson.
"It was commendable, but this was just not something he could have been saved from," she said.
Phil Padden, funeral director for Warren McElwain Mortuary, said memorial donations could be made in care of the Alpha Nu chapter of Beta Theta Pi, 1425 Tennessee St., or to the Burton and Dors Lyman Foundation, care of the Bank of Kansas, 1 Financial Square., Hutchinson, Kan. 63503.
Three KU music ensembles were the recipients of the 1994 Down Beat magazine's Best in the United States and Canada music award.
Dan Galley, assistant professor of jazz studies and director of two the groups — Jazz Ensemble I and KU Fusion Combo — said the ensemble won the best college big band award, and the combo won the best college blues/pop/rock group award.
KU music ensembles receive awards
Gailey said he was proud of both groups.
"It's wonderful," he said. "We were recognized nationally for a job well done. We did it with primarily undergraduates. A lot of the schools who usually win the contest are
"It is a real honor for a saxophone quartet to be selected for this award," he said. "We compete against string ensembles and wood ensembles. It's an plus to beat groups like these."
Compiled from Kansan staff reports
Vince Gnojek, associate professor of saxophone and director of Quartet I, said the quartet won the best college classic chamber music award. He said he was pleased with the group's performance.
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