University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1983
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UNDER ONE PROPOSAL, the officers' starting monthly salaries would change from $1,060 to $1,277, which is close to the starting salaries of other policemen.
The reclassification will cost about $40,000 for the last part of this year and about $60,000 to $90,000 for a full year, he said.
Denney said that what complicated the process of finding money for the reclassification was that the police department for the Kansas City, Kan., campus also had to be included.
Rodger Oroke, director of support services for facilities operations, said that it was only fair to inquire the Kansas City campus police in the decision and laudence police because they did the same work.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
AN ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP at the Kansas City campus is now trying to find money for next year, he said, but until that money is received, an incubation for both groups will not be put into effect.
Denney said that if the Kansas City campus police were unable to find money for next year, KU police would probably go another year without reclassification — even though the department had the money for the reclassification.
It's a Catch-22 situation that has created frustration
"The later in the year we go without hearing anything, you can see the morale before they slip up."
A decision would have to be made before Dec. 18, which is the start of the first pay period for next year, for the reclassification to take effect by January, he said.
Denney said that the salary situation had become so bad that three sergeants had resigned.
TWO SERGEANTS TOOK a 5 percent cut in pay when they went to work for the parking services, but by working overtime they were able to make more money than they did while working as sergeants for the KU police, Denney said.
Gov. John Carlin, right, talks with former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes, who is now a member of the Board of Regents. Carlin and Dykes were at the University of Kansas Friday for the dedication of a five-story addition to Summerfield Hall.
Part of the problem in generating support for reclassification is the image of the KU police, he
“And it means no more midnight shifts, no more calls in the middle of the night. It means weekends with the family,” he said. “What would you do?”
"THERE IS A FEELING that this is a soft job," Denney said. "But it isn't. We do the same job here as any municipal police force that has a population the size of this campus."
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He knows that his grandfather's name was either Wilfred or William Gibbens and that an American oil company sent him to Venezuela in the early 1920s, he said.
HIS FATHER CHANGED Gibbens to Gibens to eliminate the double "b" and make the name less foreign in Venezuela, he said.
He has little else to go by, except memories of hearing that W. Gibbens came from Texas or Oklahoma, and a compelling sentimentality and curiosity to find his American relatives.
"I have been investigating for five years and I know it is going to be a long search," he said.
And he thinks he needs to prepare emotionally because the mystery might hide an ugly story.
"Maybe they will be friendly and welcoming but I am aware that I might find a wall, something that says, 'We don't want to have anything to do with you,' " he said.
But he is also compelled by the hope that he might find a warm reception.
early teens that his grandfather's American family had wanted to get in touch with their Venezuelan brothers. But his grandmothermit them to call to her children andgrandchildren.
Gibens was told by an aunt when he was in his
"I know they tried to get in touch with us and that gives me hope that they won't reject me."
BESIDES HOPE AND determination, Gibens has a picture of his grandfather and a document that tells what ship his grandfather took to return to the United States.
"My father never knew him. He left before
eb. 15, 2019 when my father was born." he said.
"I don't believe in that," she said.
BUT DESPITE SETBACKS, he remains hopeful of finding a lead to his past, partly because he has heard stories of success under less promising circumstances.
"I know a Venezuelan lady who found her relatives in the Soviet Union," he said. "She told me that if I ever found my relatives I would feel a great emotion."
Crowd celebrates dedication of Summerfield Hall addition
Gray business suits, concrete pillars and gaping aluminum air ducts did not darken the spirits of the crowd that attended the dedication Friday of a five-story addition to Summerfield Hall.
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
The green plants and yellow flowers brighten the corners of the unfinished four-floor room in the new addition were more congruous with the mood of more than 200 men and women who attended the ceremony and a party afterward at the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center.
"It was the greatest party the School of Business has had in 16 or 17 years," said John Tollefson, dean of the school.
GOV. JOHN CARLIN began the ceremony with greetings to the crowd, many of whom had helped finance the construction of the $1.4 million addition.
Carlin commended the private donors for their work, and encouraged that he was partly responsible for the success.
"It was my stinginess, my conservativeness that forced the private sector to come in and carry the ball," he said. "Your generosity in encouraging me for more public dollars for higher education."
In his office after the dedication, Tollefson pointed in the direction of the new addition, smiled and said, "Everything out there is a result of private contributions."
The contributions began coming in during spring 1979 when the KU School of Business Board of Advisors initiated a fund drive under former President John S. O'Neill, the dean of the School of Business at that time.
DYKES, WHO IS now a member of the Board of Regents, said at the dedication that the board of advisers had raised $840,000 between September 1979 and June 1980. The funds donated by the board came from members' private contributions and from their companies.
Tollefson said that original estimates or the project's cost ranged between $1.8 and 2.3 million. The final cost of the project, $1.4 million, fell short of the estimate, he said, because the construction bids were made at the right time in 1982.
"Building construction was way down in the summer of 1862," he said. "The contractors were busy."
Dykes said that the addition was necessary because enrollment in the School of Business had declined.
IN THE FALL of 1971, 810 students were enrolled in the School of Business, whereas 1,591 enrolled in the School this fall, Tolleson said.
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One of Stern's students, Fran Wolfe, senior from Fargo, N.D. said, "She knows her stuff to a tee. She gives all she's got in class. She really keeps us on our toes."
Stern said she had to keep challenging her students during class because, "you have to get the information across. I use personal experience because if I can make a point in day-to-day life, I can tell you how much I use humor because of the emotional tone. Then it is filed in the memory and in the emotions.
"SOMETIMES I USE humor on purpose because I have to interest in what I say or I stop because I don't."
Pam Keglovits, Lebanon, N.H., senior, also
Stern as a teacher. She said humor in the
class is one of her greatest assets.
She does not make fun, Keglovits said, but
taught him, "When I study, I remember
bearer, with humor."
"Enthusiasm — that transfers quicker than anything. You can tell if they are not interested in what they are teaching." she said. "Also, I wanted new information. I didn't want them saying Ten years ago." And I wanted a task me work, who valued what I was producing.
In teaching her classes, Stern said she looked at the qualities she wanted in a teacher when she was in school.
Stern wanted to be that kind of teacher and she is, according to her students. But she is not friends with her students, she said. Instead she maintains a professional relationship with them.
Though it is not really possible, she said, some of her students have tried to sleep through her
"I WAKEN UP. I used to be a student who slept in class, front row, center seat. I don't even notice it."
Keglovits said that falling asleep in Stern's classes was impossible
"She comes into the room, whether you are tired or not, you are into that class." Keglovlis said. "She bounces and jumps and runs from end to end to describe her patients."
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