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University Daily Kansan, November 9, 1983 Page
Officials work to correct KU payroll mistakes
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
State and University officials said yesterday that they were working to correct mistakes made last week when the University of Kansas first used the statewide payroll system for its paychecks.
The switch last week caused several hundred Nov. 1 paychecks for student employees to have taxes incorrectly withheld from them, Harold Gibbon, the state's assistant director of accounts and reports, said yesterday.
GIBBON AND JOHN Patterson, KU comptroller, said they did not know exactly how many student checks had been issued. "If it could have been "as many as 1,100."
Patterson said the department of accounts and reports had prepared a list of these mistakes and was working on refunds for those students. Neither official would estimate when the refunds would be finished.
"THERE WAS A tremendous amount of effort that went into making Nov. 1 as successful as possible." Patterson said of the conference's convenience as few people as possible.
about 380 no-interest loans, for one-half of the employee's usual paycheck, for employees who missed their checks. All of these new loans have been picked up, he said.
Patterson said the new payroll system, called the Kansas Integrated Personnel-Payroll System, would
Stephen Cartar, controller of the Kansas University Endowment Association, said the association prepared
The association will intercept the employees' next checks to repay the loans, and then refund the balance to
'I think the University did a heck of a job getting the people paid that it did. Anytime you have a major conversion, you're going to have problems.'
— John Patterson, KU comptroller
them. Carttar said he expected no new checks to come from the state for at least a week or two.
Patterson said, "I think the University did a heck of a job getting the people paid that it did. Anytime you get the impression, you're going to have problems."
He praised the work of the employees at KU and in Topeka, some of whom worked 12 to 14 hours a day to get the checks prepared.
eventually work better than the previous system KU used.
Modifications to the payroll system and to the system at KU that feeds the payroll system are needed because universities also employ students, whose payroll records are different from usual employees of a state agency.
The usual state employee works 12 months a year, has Social Security and other taxes withheld, has no part of his
salary paid by a grant and does not get leave, Patterson said.
Bill Belville, director of the department of information systems and computer, said he was disappointed by the response he received and were rejected by the computer system.
"FOR ALL THE people work people in, we anticipated it would be a lot smaller than it was," he said. "It's unfortunate, but it wasn't that people didn't try."
He said that no one would be benefited by his "pointing the finger" at the cause of the mistakes, but that all employees involved in the process at KU and in Topeka would learn from the last experience.
KU and state workers will be preparing the payroll system from Dec. 18 to Jan. 17 for the pay increase that is being implemented by the employees with the Feb. 1, paycheck
Patterson said that he expected no problems with the system's adjustment to classified employee salaries, but that unclassified salaries may be more difficult because the raises would vary by percentage from employee to employee.
KU is given record amount by Endowment Association
By the Kansan Staff
The Kansas University Endowment Association spent a record $21 million in direct support of the University of Kansas during its endowment year, the president of the Endowment Association said yesterday.
Todd Seymour, the president, said this support included expenditures for student scholarships, construct staff travel, salaries and services.
During the past decade, the association has spent $123.5 million in direct support of KU, Seymour said.
THE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION spent $4.1 million during the year for scholarships, fellowships, awards and prizes. About 3,500 students on the Lawrence, Wichita and Kansas City, Kan., campuses received an average of $811 for this school year.
The organization also issued 6,770 student loans — $2.1 million at the Lawrence campus and $318,000 in Kansas City and Wichita campus.
The Endowment Association also produced record totals for fund raising, investment income and assets. The Educational Fund Raising division received $14.4 million with $11.5 million the previous year
THE BOOK VALUE of the organization's assets as of June 30, 1982 was $123.2 million, as compared with a $121 million figure last year
The Endowment Association's investment income was $18.8 million, up $1 million from the previous year. Investment income rose 450 percent in the past decade - up from $2.7 million in 1973.
Revenues from fund raising, and deposits of agency funds administered for the University were about $36.7 million, a 4 percent increase from 1981-1982.
'Day After' moral questions to be included in KU course
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
A course on the philosophical and ethical questions raised by the ABCTV movie "The Day After" will be taught by a University of Kansas assistant professor of philosophy for credit this semester.
Warner Morse, the professor, will teach the course titled "Studies in Philosophy: 'The Day After.'" The movie, which describes the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on Lawrence and Kansas City areas, will be broadcast Nov. 20.
All class participants will be required to view the movie and to attend a meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
The course is offered through the independent study unit of the division of continuing education. When they enroll, students will be a viewer's guide for the movie and a bibliography on related topics.
MORSE WILL ALSO arrange reading assignments and a research paper with the students individually, and arrange to meet with them again after they have finished their research paper.
The class may be taken for one
hour of credit for this semester, at the standard cost of $30, or audited for $. Enrolment will be limited to 25 students.
The idea for the course came from Nancy Colyer, director of the independent study unit. She said that the unit wanted to develop some courses on current issues, and that after she saw the premiere, she thought it would make an interesting topic.
THE COURSE WILL be the first to be "wrapped around" an event such as a movie, offered through continuing education at KU, she said. Similar courses have been tried at the Regents Center in Overland Park.
Morse said the course would examine the students' reactions to a movie that many have called emotional and some have called biased. The central question of the course is, "To what extent is it reasonable to be moved by the film in the way it seems to move us?"
As an ethics teacher, Morse is interested in the source of ethical ideas. Morse also has been active in the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, an anti-nuclear group that sponsored an opinion poll last year on whether to endorse a freeze on nuclear weapons.
--way through school or who were members of student organizations, she said, are just as important as the club presidents or student body leaders.
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"THE EDITOR OF the (1974) yearbook did not think they belonged anymore." Yoe said. "As the University got larger, nobody knew anybody to help." The students students to identify people — aside from athletes, big-wheel student poli-
A 40-year tradition will be resurrected in the 1984 edition of the Jayhawker yearbook when it bestows upon 10 seniors the honor of Hilltopter.
Tom Yoe, Jayhawker adviser, said the Hilltopter tradition began in the mid-1930s as a yearbook feature of campus personalities. He said that at his school, staff changed the regular feature to an award for outstanding students.
The NUPOC program can help you not only to complete college, it can also be the start of an exciting career. If you'd like to find out more, contact your adviser.
The Hilltopter honor, which is awarded to seniors who have consistently displayed unselfish, responsible leadership in non-academic areas of campus life, has not been awarded since 1974. But, unlike the past, the yearbook won't stress academic excellence as an absolute prerequisite for becoming a Hilltopter, said Ramelle Lipps, Jayhawker editor.
The selection committee for this year is: Pat Kehde, assistant director of Student Organizations and Activities; Hogan Boga, associate executive vice chancellor; Ann Eversole, director of Student Organizations and Activities; Karlin Campbell, associate of women leaders; Cigler, associate professor of political science.
As in past years, photographs and biblio- students will be featured in the yearbook.
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"There are a lot of sorority, fraternity, dorm and scholarship hall leaders who aren't necessarily straight-A students," Lips said. "I think its more important that these people are represented by their peers than by the students who worked their STUDENTS WHO WORKED their
The six students who are on the committee are Shelly Stucky, Student Union Activities, Colleen Eck, Eck. Scholarship Hall Council; Doug Shoerke, Interfraternity Council; Janet Rodkey, Lamba Sigma; Milton Scott, Minority Affairs; and Shari Rogge, Student Senate.
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STUDENTS WHO WORKED their
ticians and those leading protests and making headlines in the Kansan."
Yoe and Lips said one of the pitfalls of the selection process was that only the best samples were considered.
Lipps said she hoped to avoid the problem by forming a selection committee.
When the tradition began the campus had only 4,000 students and every year they were asked to take a survey.
Any senior can apply for the award by filling out a form available at the Jayhawker office, B121, Kansas Union. Students and faculty can nominate seniors by submitting their names to the committee.
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