University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1983
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Employees pleased with raise
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
KU professors and employees said yesterday that they were pleased with the 4.5 percent pay raise passed by the Kansas Legislature, especially because employees in other states were not receiving any increases.
The increase, approved Sunday by the legislature, will be delayed until Jan. 1. Normally, state employees receive pay raises June 1.
"I think it shows we may have a few more friends than we thought," said Thomas Swearingen, president of the KU Classified Senate. "I was really surprised and very happy. There's over 30 states that are frozen now."
CLASSIFIED SENATE represents the KU classified employees, who include many nonfaculty positions such as secretaries and librarians.
Joe Collins, legislative lobbyist for the Classified Senate, also said he was in favor of a bill.
He credited the higher increase partially to his own work and that of Suzanne Cupp, administrative assistant to dean of education. Both have been on Wednesday afternoon since February at the Capitol, meeting with legislators.
Evelyn Swartz, president of the American Association of University Professors, said, "Of course, the faculty would have appreciated more, but it is important to various activities of the legislators who supported our salary increases."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he was also pleased with the increase.
"THE SALARY PACKAGE falls short of what we worked for, but it is much better than what legislative leaders have given him," he said in a prepared statement.
"Although inadequate, it will compare favorably with salary adjustments made in other states. Because of its relatively low cost, it is not (faring well anywhere this year)."
The Board of Regents had recommended a 7 percent salary increase for classified employees and a 9 percent increase for unclassified employees. In Carlin lowered it to 4 percent in his budget recommendation in January.
Collins said that Cupp and he spent last week talking to state senators and representatives on the floor of the House, informing them of KU's interests and finding out about the latest legislative actions.
"I think it was good," Collins said. "I think the Classified Senate should have
a lobbyist over there for next year, or two or three. I think the AUAP should vote to keep it out.
"To me, it's very effective. It's far more effective than standing on the front steps of the Capitol and shouting at legislators."
COLLINS WAS REFERRING to an impromptu rally on the steps of the State House Wednesday in which classified employees picketed and shouted at Republican legislators. After the meeting, attention, he said, it did not help the classified employees' cause for higher pay.
"I think that going in on a one-to-one basis and in a rational manner was the best way to go" he said.
Sweatiggen agreed.
"It sure caught their attention but I'm not sure I could call it a benefit," he said.
"Some people were really shocked at the way people were talking and acting. But you have to realize this is from a different point of view, and being caught behind inflation."
Collins said the Classified Senate planned to send lobbyists to Topeka next year, although he himself was taking the year off to write a book. Cupp will probably continue as a lobbyist, he said.
KU jazz band wins award at festival
The University of Kansas Jazz Ensemble One was named the Kansas winner in the 12th Annual Wichita Jazz Festival. Another other university jazz bands in the state.
Ron McCurdy, KU jazz coordinator,
said that the band had been going to
the festival for the last seven or eight
weeks and was the first time they
had won the award.
Because the band received the award, it was given the opportunity to perform in the Sunday Show, a
in the show, they played with jazz greats such as Oscar Peterson, Mark Murphy, The Four Freshmen and Stan Getz.
marathon concert that lasted from 1 p.m. Sunday to 1:30 a.m. Monday.
McCurdy said that playing with the famous musicians was more important to the 21-member band than winning.
HE SAID THAT two overall awards were presented at the festival, the Kansas winners and the national winners. The band from the University
of Texas-Austin was named the national winner.
Three members of the U.S. Air Force academy's jazz band, the Falconaires,
David Cooper, Stafford junior, received a full scholarship to a jazz summer camp in Bloomington, Ill. Other members who earned special citations were, Paul Bastin, Leawed senior, Thomas Lipscomb, Baytown, Texas graduate student and Brian Leenburd, Prairie Village senior.
There will be a meeting held for men and women who are interested in being
Hosts or Hostesses for the Kansas University Athletic Department
on Sunday Evening, May 1 at 7:00 pm in Room 135 of Parrott Athletic Center
You must be a KU student in good standing during the 1983-1984 academic year.
Bass Sandals for those sunny summer days
Former study abroad participant dies in Beirut embassy bombing
Staff Reporter
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
Deborah M. Hixon, who combined a love for travel and foreign languages in a career as a foreign affairs analyst, will be buried today at the Chapel Hill Cemetery in Littleton, Colo., a suburb of Denver.
Hixon, a student in the 1972-73 study abroad program co-sponsored by the University of Kansas and the University of Colorado, was one of 16 Americans found dead last week in an apartment-shattered U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
She was 30 years old.
In a news release, James Hixon, Deborah's father, said, "She was so excited when she found out she qualified for the Beirut position. She wanted to help bring peace to that part of the world.
"We worried about her over there, but gave her our love and support."
HER FATHER SAID that in one of her last letters home, she said,
"America is so much better off at its worst, than any other place in the world."
Anita Herzfeld, director of the KU office of Study Abroad, said yesterday that Marlin Odell, a former classmate of Hixon at Bordeaux France, was among the 88 people killed in the bombing.
Odell said she and other former classmates of Hixon's, were planning a memorial scholarship in her name that would sponsor a student participating in the Bordeaux study—abroad program.
"hadn't talked to her since 1976," Odell said. "We had fallen out of touch since she became a foreign affairs
analyst. This has been a real shocker for everyone."
Michelle Delaney, director of the Colorado Study Abroad Program, said that after Hixon's body was viewed with the 15 others by President McCain last Saturday, it was flown by plane to Littleton for today's burial.
Hixon was graduated from CU in 1974 with a major in French and had been a foreign affairs analyst at U.S. Naval Base Guam, before going South Africa before being to Beirut.
Four Lebanese passers-by, who were detained by Buftu authorities after the bombing, said a man had been shot and killed by the embassy and died in the explosion.
Investigators examining the rubble supported the theory that the van carried the bomb after they found it inside a metal thought to be from the van.
Student helps save man after blaze
A University of Kansas student rescued a man engulfed in flames and helped save his life in Topeka yesterday.
Beth Brickman, Highland Park, Ill., sophomore, and a nursing major, said she had just gotten out of her car in downtown Topeka when she saw smoke billowing from a manhole in the sidewalk.
As she was preparing to call the fire department, she saw flames shooting up from the manhole.
"Then all of a sudden the flames started rolling around, and I realized it was happening."
Brickman said another man came across the street with a piece of carpet, and with the help of another man standing by, they rolled the burning man in the carpet and smothered the fire.
She said they made sure the man did not need mouth-to-mouth resuscitation SHE SAID THE man was trying to connect two circuits on a power line
Diana Anderson, of nursing services at the University of Kansas Medical Center, last night that the man, Edwin Deveret, was in critical condition with third-degree burns covering 90 percent of his body.
when an explosion occurred. Firemen rescued another man who had burns on his face.
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