University Daily Kansan, February 25. 1983
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Two KU classified employees will lobby for wages, benefits
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
The threat of a limited salary increase and a loss of health benefits has prompted two KU classified employees to spend their vacation time lobbying at the Kansas Legislature.
Suzanne Cupp, Classified Senate president, and Joe Collins, senate legislative lionship, announced last night that they would spend each Wednesday afternoon lobbying for the University's 1,700 classified employees.
Collins said that he and Cupp had been granted a half day a week vacation time to lobby for the rest of the session. They will pay the $15 legislative lobbying fee out of their own pockets, he said.
The Classified Senate passed the motion with little debate.
"THERE'S AN awful lot of critical stuff going down because of the budget." Collins said.
C Collins said he would push for at least a patient salary increase for classi- tion staff.
"We hope we can at least hold the line," he said. "We're not going to gain anything. More depends on the combination of money bills passed."
Classified employees include library and museum employees, secretaries, and maintenance workers at the University of Kansas.
He said that he believed this was the
first time that a nonunion classified employee group had sent a registered jobbvist to Topeka.
Cupp said she thought KU classified employees could benefit from the action.
"THIS IS A very bold move. We could be criticized (for doing this)," she said. "But it is that very boldness that might at least keep us informed."
Collins said that recent events in the Legislature had prompted him and Cupp to consider becoming regular lobbyists.
A bill passed by the Kansas Senate would give the state the option not to pay all health costs for single classified employees, he said.
The measure would allow the state to provide direct insurance to its employees instead of operating through a business as Blue Cross-Blue Shield, he said.
The state has maintained that providing insurance without a carrier is not allowed.
"Hell, that's going to cost people money," he said. "I have a tremendous concern that they're dumping something like that on us."
A federal law requires a two-year
legislative study of the proposal before it can become law.
Joanne Klesath, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of Public Employees, has opposed the bill, Collins said. However, he said, he wants to find out what KU employees think of the matter.
Klesath's opinions do not always reflect the views of KU classified employees, he said.
Collins and Cupp agreed that lobbying regularly at the Legislature would keep KU classified employees closer to the issues that could affect them.
Previously, he said, Classified Senate members had gone on their own vacation time to talk to legislators or to appear before committees.
"WE FEEL representing the employees on the KU campus as a unit carries a great deal more clout with the Legislature," Collins said.
Cupp said. "It's going to establish a communication link between the civil service and the Legislature."
Collins added that Cupp had testified before legislative committees many times and had acquired their respect
"I think she will do a great deal of good" he said.
Although Chancellor Gene A. Budig does not know of the lobbying plan, he said, Cupp had alerted other KU officials of the move.
Most KU officials think the lobbying plan is a good idea, he said.
Panel agrees NCAA freshman rules on academics not likely to be used
Staff Reporter
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
A panel of administrators and professors discussing education and athletics last night agreed on one issue: the controversial tightening of freshman standards for college athletes will probably never be instituted.
Seven panelists representing academic advisers, athletic department officials, professors and athletes participated in a public lecture titled "The Role of the Athlete in the Academic Community," at the Satellite Union.
CLARK BRICKER, professor of chemistry and former member of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, said the NCAA requirements were merely a smokescreen to lure people into thinking the association was interested in academics.
the proposal, which is not supposed to take effect until 1986, would require a high school athlete to attain a 700 composite score on the SAT and a 15 on the ACT in addition to a 2.0 standard average in a set of core courses.
He said that if any minimum standards were established by an organization, the requirements should be for all students, not just athletes.
Mike Fisher, academic adviser to the athletic department, said he also
thought the new regulations would not be instituted.
He said that the public debate about standardized tests is racey biased had ballooned the rhetorics into a political and racial matter.
FISHER SAID the problem, with ensuring that an athlete was properly educated was rooted more deeply in the university setting.
"The problem is that colleges and universities are social instead of academic in nature." Fisher said.
David Scott, a seven year offensive guard for the Atlanta Failons and a former KU student who came back to earn a college degree, said he also thought the university setting was difficult for the athlete.
"There's a problem when you're a college athlete," Scott said. "When we're playing ball, the rest of the campus is studying. When we're studying, the rest of the campus is playing.
"It's hard to not want of go out and have fun."
MONTE JOHNSON, director of athletics, who attended the NCAA convention in San Diego where the proposal was passed, said, "I don't think there was anyone at that convention who thought the proposal would be passed in the form that would finally be implemented."
would rarely be imprisoned.
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism and faculty representative to the NCAA, said he thought the proposal would be greatly altered before it was eventually implemented.
"Some of the backdrop for this issue goes far beyond athletics," he said.
The whole education system has been under fire for the last several years, he said, and the NCAA proposal might have been a reaction to criticism from a broad-based group.
Brinkman, who attended the NCAA convention with Johnson, said the greatest benefit of the proposal might result from debate about education in general
HE SAID THE PUBLIC surrounding the measure would send a signal to colleges and high schools to raise the quality of education.
He said the public forum last night was an example of the discussion of problems the rule brought about.
Pat Cleveland, special assistant for athletic advising through the office of academic affairs, said that the problem with educating athletes began in high school and that the rule set against sports for something not of their control.
Measles outbreak in Indiana prompts advice to immunize
E. J. Jones, Chicago junior and KU fullback, said he thought the proposal was unfair because some students, regardless of their race, did not take standardized tests well.
A recent outbreak of measles at Indiana and Purdue universities has prompted health officials to recom- ment the vaccines, simply check their immunization records.
Robert French, assistant director of the bureau of epidemiology in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said people born between 1956 and 1968 might have been immunized with a vaccine that as effected the most recent vaccine, they might not have received any immunization.
Although no measles cases have been reported this year in Kansas, he said people 15 to 27 years old who had not received the vaccine did not need the latest measles vaccine.
Mary Haffield, a Watkins Hospital staff physician, said messles vaccinates children at the Mason Hospital.
lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, 336 Missouri St.
AND KAY KENT, a local public health administrator, said students could also get vaccinated at the
Ken Allman, an Indiana public health adviser, said about 90 college students at Purdue and Indiana universities had the measles.
He said special clinics on the afflicted campuses had immunized about 17,000 students since the outbreak started in January.
French said measles would spread rapidly, seeking out the unvaccinated or unexposed.
"It is one of the most efficient diseases we know of," he said.
Someone who has measles but still does not show symptoms of the disease transmits the disease through the air and can be transmitted by anyone who already shows symptoms, he said.
A person will incubate the measles virus for about a week before he gets a rash and high fever, the prominent symptoms of the measles, he said.
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