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University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1983
Regents to consider special fee increases
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Renorter
Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents will consider proposals tomorrow that could give KU architecture and engineering students an even bigger fee increase than other University students will face this fall.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design and the School of Engineering are seeking permission to charge their students special laboratories to detray the rising costs of maintaining and buying equipment and supplies.
The architecture school is proposing a $15 a semester fee, and the engineering school is proposing a $3 a credit hour charge, up to a maximum of $27 a semester.
TUITION AT REGENTS schools will increase 20 percent next fall to $410 for state residents and $1,200 a semester for out-of-state students. In addition, students also pay special fees, which budget is to be determined for next year.
Max Lucas, dean of the architecture school, said the fee was needed to maintain and replace equipment in design studios and laboratories.
"In this situation, what we're saying to the students is that we're providing you with an unusual amount of equipment and we're asking you to help," he said.
He said equipment such as drafting tables was especially expensive to maintain. The school provides tables to architecture students who are sophomores or above, he said. The school has more than 500 drafting tables. They cost about $500 and must be repaired or replaced periodically, he said.
The fee, which is expected to generate about $19,500 a year, will let the school to keep up with the cost of equipment, Lucas said.
WE FIGURE IN TERMS of economic analysis that we will barely break even," he said.
David Kraft, dean of the engineering school, said his school's proposed $3 a credit hour fee was needed to maintain experimental laboratories in the school.
The fee, which would generate an estimated $109,000 a year, would be used to help maintain areas such as the metallurgical, materials and microprocessing laboratories. Laboratories in those areas are required for
mechanical, civil and electrical engineering students.
Kraft said that the engineering school had been planning the fee for about two and one-half years, and that last reduction did not affect the proposal.
and not are located.
Lucas said the proposed architecture fee would also be used to buy and maintain supplies for building technology and photographic laboratories in the school. Lucas said.
THE COSTS OF some specialized equipment in the architecture school has risen more than 100 percent in the last five years. The state has not allocated enough money to cover the school's expenses, he said.
The proposed fee was discussed by the School of Architecture Student Council and by administrators, he said. The administrators originally wanted a $20 fee but compromised with the students on $15, he said.
Kraft said that an enrollment increase in engineering over the past few years also contributed to the need for the fee. Enrollment has increased from 1,369 in fall 1975 to 2,092 in fall 1982.
Kraft said he doubted that the proposed fee would deter interested students from entering the engineering school.
"My argument is if we are to provide quality education, we need to maintain laboratories," he said. "If we don't, we're seriously shortchanging the education of our engineering students."
STUDENT LEADERS FROM the two schools said they supported the fees.
Christopher Seitter, Leawood senior and president of the Engineering Student Council, said, "I'm entirely in love with it. Our labs are in really shape."
Most engineering students realize the fee is needed to upgrade the laboratory equipment, he said.
1. terry Murphy, Omaha, Neb., senior and president of the Architecture Student Council, said that most architecture students thought the fee was
However, Lisa Ashner, student body president, said that although it might be necessary for the engineering and architecture schools to impose the fees, she opposed differential fees for various schools.
Instead, she said, she preferred that the Regents decide on a fixed percentage of educational costs that students should pay. A special Regents committee will recommend tomorrow what percentage of the total cost of education should be covered by student fees.
6 Siberians fail in attempt to leave Soviet Union
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Six Pentecostal Christians left their sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy yesterday to return to their Siberian hometown after more than four years of trying to leave the Soviet Union.
"Our hope is God. He never left us and he will never leave us," said Lyubava Vashchenko, 30, whose sister Lydia set up a "dying off to new life in last week."
Lydia, 32, was the first of the original Siberian Seven" to leave the embassy, returning to their home town of Cnorkogorsk in February 1982 after a 14-day hunger strike.
"Lydia's departure is a good sign for us, for our family. We plan to go to Lydia." Lyuba said. She said her sister
sent them an invitation by telex to join ber, in Israel.
THE DEPARTURE of Lydia Vasbchenko brought the family under the provisions of the 1973 Helsinki Agreement, signed by the Soviet Union, for the reunification of families.
the remittance. The families had reservations made by the embassy on two planes for Siberia last night. A U.S. consular officer accompanied them to the airport.
"It is strange to imagine how I will walk along the street," Lyuba said, recalling how the courtyard of the embassy is the only outdoor space the Pentecostals have seen in nearly five years.
When they get home, she said, "We will pray. It will be a family service."
In Tel Aviv, Lydia Vashchenko said she phonelioned her parents and two
sisters and told them the departure marked "the first step of their emigration."
"I TALKED ON THE telephone to each of them before they left and was able to say good-bye. I would like to ask people all over the world to pray for me and my family," she said in a statement.
The Pentecostalists met briefly with U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, thanked embassy staffers for their help and said the first thing they would do upon arrival in Siberia would be to pray in a family circle.
The group, which comprises four members of the Vashchenko family and two from another family, left in two U.S. Embassy vans followed by a large station wagon carrying luggage. Soviet guards outside the embassy made no attempt to interfere with their departure.
"We suspect that the emigration of Lyda Vaschenko played a role," said a senior U.S. diplomat. "The ambassador wished them well, and good-bye and we'll miss them, and told them their departure from the embassy wouldn't change our strong desire to work for their emigration."
ASKED IF THE EMBASSY urged them to leave, he said, "The decision was their own."
Augvinstina Vashchenko, the matriarch of the Vashchenko family, said, "This is the biggest risk of our lives we are taking," said adding that there was a danger of being arrested on the way home.
the two rooms in the embassy basement where the families lived since 1978 were piled high with boxes to be sent to Lydia and suitcases they were taking home.
Lure of rare books leads buyers to global quests
By JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas libraries each year send representatives to other countries in search of books that often could be obtained nowhere else.
“There are hundreds of books that I got there that I could never get here.” George Jerkovich, professor of Soviet and East European studies and Slavic languages and literatures, said yesterday.
Last May, Jerkovich traveled to Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and other countries in Europe to visit university and academy libraries, museums, book publishers and book shops to bring back library acquis
HE SAID THAT THE purpose of the trip was not only to make acquisitions but to find sources for exchanging materials.
He said that through direct buying, he was able to find rare materials not available in this country.
Jerikovich said that he used to make yearly trips, but that now he usually went on book-buying expeditions every other year.
"From the viewpoint of creating a good relationship and rapport with people — it's super, it's fantastic," he said.
He has been to Russia, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Finland trying to
purchase books and arrange ex-
changes.
Money for the trips comes from federal grants, he said, which the department obtains largely because of the national reputation of KU's Soviet and East European department. Other financing comes from the University libraries and the KU Endowment Association.
Ellen Brow, a bibliographer and librarian for the Spain, Portugal and Latin American library, returned from a three-week book-buying trip in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica at the end of March.
JERKOVICH SAID THATtext he hoped to go to Poland. He said the political situation there would be difficult and how ambitious he could be with his search.
While there, she went to book stores, universities, government agencies and the telephone company.
"The telephone book is one of the first things I pick up," she said.
Bob said she went traveling for books once or twice a year. A grant from the Tinker Foundation along with monies from the library, provides money for the trip.
Brow said that an advantage of buying directly was the money saved. She said it was not uncommon for the family to pay less than the amount the library paid for it abroad.
"YOU DISCOVER THINGS that nobody else knows about because they haven't gotten into the market," she said.
said.
The trips, she said, could also be hard work, with long hours and conditions that were not always ideal.
Last fall he went to the People's Republic of China and to Taiwan as part of a research program sponsored by the East Asian Center. While there, Bjorge said he visited publishers and book dealers.
He said that many books published in China were not on book lists sent to the United States. An example, he said, are works by faculty and graduate students printed by a university publishing house.
Gary Borge, a librarian in the East Asian library; said he had been on only one book-buying trip but would like to do it regularly.
"THAT KIND OF THING you could only get through the exchange of materials." he said. "If you go over there it's possible to get more book lists from publishers."
His trip was financed with money from a grant from the East Asian Center designated for the research and with money from KU librarians.
Clint Howard, assistant dean of libraries, said that the bibliographers — the people who went on book-buying trips — had a good knowledge of the book trade in their area and the dealers to contact.
"Personal contact is an important thing in some areas where people are not attuned to taking library requests," he said.
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