University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, January 27, 1983 Vol.93, No.85 USPS 650-640
Private contributors enrich KU
Bv JOEL THORNTON
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
A walk through Spencer Art Museum or Flint Hall reveals the link the University of Kansas has with its private supporters.
has with its princi-
And in times of state financial difficulties, KU
depends a lot on private funds, handled by the
Kansas University Endowment Association,
to keep its academic programs up to par, KU
officials said yesterday.
ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION President Todd Seymour said that individual and corporate donors gave the Endowment Association about $20 million last year, which went for scholarships, distinguished professorships, building construction, furnishings and general support of University programs.
The deans of two KU schools that have received large private donations for building expansion and improvement said that the gifts had given a tremendous boost to their schools.
"It if we just relied only on what the state provides, there would be a measure of level of quality that wouldn't be there in our program." said Del Brinkman, dean of the School of
40m Tollefon, dean of the School of Business, which received about $1.25 million in private funds for the Summerfield Hall addition, agreed.
"It really makes the difference," he said.
THE JOURNALISM school received a $1 million gift from the late Oscar S. Stauffer, one of the founders of the school and a well-known Kansas journalist. The money is being used to buy equipment and furnishings that the state could not afford. Brinkman said.
Court notour said the Endowment Association, which handles or approves all private donations to KU, was an independent organization founded
to help supplement state support of the University.
"By working as a totally private organization, we could give a lot more flexibility to the University," he said.
THE ENDOWMENT Association receives two types of gifts — restricted and unrestricted. Unrestricted gifts are usually smaller donations given by alumni or others who want to help KU, but do not have a specific interest in mind, he said.
salon.
Donors of restricted gifts, which are about 97 percent of the Endowment Association's estimated $115 million in assets, specify the purpose of their donation, such as construction or renovation within a certain building or school, Seymour said.
He said some donors had been involved
than others in planning the use of their gifts.
"The larger the gift, the more interested they are in the purpose," he said.
ALMOST HALF of the buildings on campus were built using gifts from large donors, Seymour said, including Spencer Art Museum, Spencer Research Library and many West Campus buildings.
The Summerfield Hall addition and the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center also are being financed by private donations, Seymour said.
Construction of the proposed broadcast communications building, which was postponed indefinitely last week, was to be financed by a $3.5 million gift from KU alumni Ralph and
The Eudowment Association receives funds both from direct solicitation of alumni and businesses and from a general fund-raising campaign, he said.
campaign, he said.
DONORS MEET with administrators or faculty of the department that is to receive the money. he said, to decide the details of the gift.
"We don't have total flexibility whatsoever in use of the funds," Reymour said. "We make sure the department chairman spends within donor guidelines."
Helen Foresman Spencer, donor of the art museum, directed construction of the building down to the type of furniture and paint used, he said.
Donors such as the Adamses, who made a large contribution to the alumni center, simply want a building or program that they can be proud of, he said.
"We're certain if they did have specific plans, we'd work with them," Seymour said. "We would certainly give them some discretion."
IN SOME CASES, the Endowment Association has rejected gifts, because donors have made unfair stipulations on how they wanted the money spent, Seymour said. In one case, an alumnus gave $25 for the purpose of taring and feathering a faculty member, he said.
herring a horse." "Darn few donors try to dictate," he said.
"Darn few don’t worry. With the possibility of less state support in the future, KU officials said they saw a possibility of the university becoming too reliant on private funds."
They said, however, that KU would not let donors make decisions on faculty and personnel.
"No, I don't see any difficulty," said Robert P. Cobb, executive vice chancellor. "The University has the option of listing its priorities and accenting them or not."
"I'd like to get to the point where we have private funds out our ears."
prIVATE TAKEN FROM Schools such as Stanford and Harvard receive all of their financing from private sources, he said.
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Brinkman said KU could accept private donations and still have control over its destiny.
"The University has an integrity about it, and that's always been the case," he said.
Gary Biller, Wichita graduate student in education, took advantage of the snow yesterday by cross-country skiing near Stouffer Place apartments. Biller said he enjoyed cross-country skiing and wished it snowed more here in Kansas.
Reagan's budget proposals get mixed reactions
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Donald Regan told Congress yesterday that the economy was poised for recovery but that unemployment would remain near 11 percent throughout 1983.
Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee on the day after President Reagan's State of the Union address, Regan defended the president's package against Democratic charges that it does not provide enough economic recovery and jobs.
The White House said Reagan's speech drew a heavy favorable response, but critics said that the new austerity program would continue to help the few and hurt the many.
help the team make the case for REGAN TOLD the panel, "The economy now stands poised for recovery. In fact, the recovery may well already be under way at this moment."
He said the administration projected "modest" economic growth of about 3 percent by the end of 1882 — about half the normal recession recovery rate — rising to 4 percent in 1884 and in later years.
Economists who advise top banks and investment houses split on whether Reagan "stayed the course" in his speech, but agreed that the speech contained few surprises.
"It doesn't change my forecast because I was expecting it," said Michael Evans, chief economist for the Wall Street Securities firm of McMahan, Brafman, Morgan and Co.
EVANS, WHO is predicting "at best only a modest restructure," found little in Reagan's economic plans to suggest that spiraling federal deficits could lead "on a scale of 1 to 10, give him .5," he said.
"hassably a bland kind of speech," said Newton Zinder, vice president for research at
E, F. Hutton. "I don't think it will have much impact as far as the stock market is concerned."
The Dow Jones Industrial index dropped early yesterday, then rose later in active trading.
"There was nothing negative in President Reagan's speech but there wasn't enough strength in it to drive the stock market strongly." Mr. Shannon, Sharon American Express vice president,
ZINDER SUGGESTED Reagan's speech,
thorough "blund" was a change of direction.
Others, however, saw the speech as business as usual.
"Given the rumors that were circulating, I thought he stayed the course a lot more than people had been speculating," said Milton Ezrati, senior economist at MH-Ede Economics, a unit of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
The speech was delivered too late for comment from most Wednesday morning newspapers
around the world. Few countries had official comment.
collemen-
West Germany praised the speech, cliting Reagan's conciliatory words for the Soviet Union, but Moscow said the speech distorted Soviet policy and attempted to excuse "anti-people" programs.
WEST GERMAN Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said in a statement released in Bonn that West Germany saw "with satisfaction" that Washington had pledged to examine carefully any serious Soviet proposal at arms reduction talks now going on in Geneva.
Genscher, currently visiting Washington, also said he welcomed Reagan's economic targets of abolishing the trade deficit, fighting inflation and lowering interest rates.
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Snow crews hit the streets early to sand, salt campus roads
Staff Reporter
By JIM BOLE
While most students were still warm in their beds, facilities operations crews were covering the University of Kansas with sand and salt yesterday morning.
Thomas Lee, landscaping supervisor, said his crew headed out about 5:39 a.m. in their trucks, pouring a mixture of sand and salt on the University's snow-covered streets.
He said there were no unusual problems yesterday because temperatures in the high 20s had helped the sand and salt turn snow on most main roads on campus into slush.
KU POLICE reported five accidents on
campus yesterday. Lawrence police said that eight accidents were reported in the area and that all roads in the city remained open.
Warren Sunkel, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said Lawrence received almost four inches of snow yesterday.
Snow covering most of Kansas, he said, came from a storm system moving east from Oklahoma to Louisiana that had expanded for an unusually wide area.
intensely with white ink.
He said Lawrence was on the outer edge of the storm system, which extended northeast from Wichita to the Nebraska border.
should be partly cloudy, with temperatures in the 30s. He said there was a chance of rain turning to snow on Sunday.
Jerry Taylor, owner of Hillcrest Wrecker and Garage Inc., 1120 E. 23rd St., said about half of the 80 calls his five wreckers received yesterday were for cars stuck in the snow, which was twerer than usual because of the warm temperatures.
Centralia and Harveyville, 40 miles northwest of Tompahe, both reported five inches of snow.
Lee said that to prepare for last night's basketball game, facilities operations crews were sent out at 6 p.m. to lay sand for traction on the court. The team brought lots and streets around Allen Field House.
of Toperma, both reported five times in the
SUNKEL SAID that today and tomorrow
HE SAID most of the main roads on campus should be in good condition today because the thin layer of slush and water should evaporate as it freezes.
Northern California and Oregon were also hit with severe weather yesterday, as the third storm this week brought heavy rain and 70 mph winds.
The lack of traffic on campus is the biggest challenge in keeping the roads clear, Lee said, because cars going over the roads mix the sand and salt with the snow to speed up melting.
At least 24 people nationwide have died in weather-related accidents since Saturday, mostly in highway traffic accidents, and eight in plane crashes.
Six deaths were blamed on the storms that began rolling into Northern California last Friday. The last victim died in a mudslide yesterday.
Icv weather keeps elderly from venturing outside
Winter weather keeps many elderly Lawrence residents inside, local health officials say. Rose Lyons had no plans of going anywhere, but she did clean the snow from her car.
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
For the elderly, the slick sidewalks and streets caused by yesterday's snowfall were more than just a headache — they were barriers that kept many from venturing outside.
Ethel Williamson, 67, 1101 Vermont St., is one of many elderly people who prefer to stay inside on snowy days.
She said she liked to go out in the snow but decided against doing so yesterday.
"I was afraid it could be slippery and I don't feel like breaking a leg or a hip," she said.
PRISCILLA MCPHEETERS, a registered nurse at the Douglas County Health Department, said that because elderly people's bones were fragile, many stayed inside on snowy days to avoid slipping and falling.
avoid slipping and falling.
She said that elderly people's broken bones took longer to heal, and that in some cases, they never really healed properly.
She said that in some cases, falls have left an elderly person incapable of caring for himself. If his family cannot take care of him, he is put in a nursing home.
hanging home.
Naomi Mensch, 64, 420 North St., said she had cut her head in a fall last year and was now especially careful about walking in the snow.
"That made me a little leery about getting out in the snow," she said.
MENSCH who does volunteer work at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vermont St., said
she probably would not have gone outside except to reach the center.
to ready to carry Turbuton, information and referral coordinator for the Douglas County Council on Aging, said the elderly had an increased risk of slipping and falling in ice weather.
tapping and ratting in my yard. He said that Bus 62, which provides transportation for the elderly and is administered by his agency, had received many calls from people canceling rides because they did not want to go outside.
outside.
He said that 50 to 60 people usually came for meals at the senior center, but that yesterday that number was down by a third.
OLDER PEOPLE feel stress when isolated, as others do, said Heidi Miller, a staff psychologist for the senior adult unit at Osawatomie State Hospital and a KU doctoral student in clinical psychology.
She said, however, that being confined at home for a day or two would not be traumatic for the elderly.
elderly. Miller said elderly people were survivors and a lot more resilient than people gave them credit for.'
life.
"I love it if I can stay inside," she said. "I think it is beautiful."
"They are not going to shrivel up and die because they haven't seen anyone for two days," Miller said.
Mensch, who did leave home yesterday, said that when she was younger she had liked snow, but that she'd had enough to last the rest of her life.
Offense may reflect poorly on law school
Staff Reporter
By SALLY JOY OMUNDSON
A reported violation of the KU law school's honor code could reflect poorly on the school, the faculty adviser to the honor code committee said yesterday.
yesterday.
Martin Dickinson, KU professor of law and adviser to the committee, said that he was concerned because the violation involved a student's misrepresentation of himself to an outside employer.
Scott Morgan, honor code committee chairman, said another student will be brought before the committee this week for allegedly making similar honor-code violations.
outside employer. Last month the six-member student committee recommended to the dean of law that a student be permanently removed from the law school because he had lied during a job interview.
ACCORDING TO the honor code, it is a violation to intentionally make false or misleading statements to the school administration or to someone closely associated with the school. It also is a violation to present a resume that contains false or misleading information to prospective employers.
prospective employees.
Specifies about the two violations were not released, and most people familiar with the cases would not discuss them in detail.
The honor code committee recommends action on violations to the dean of law, who makes the final ruling. The code states that the dean also makes the final decision on punishment for violations.
BECAUSE HE is a faculty member, Dickinson was not allowed to vote with the committee on its recommendation to dismiss the student who made the first violation.
Dickinson said that it was generally thought that the dean would follow the committee's recommendations.
Michael Davis, dean of law, would not give details concerning his ruling on the case.
The student's status with the law school has not been released. But several law students said
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Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, with highs in
the 30s. Winds will be from 10 to 20 mph
Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with lows in the lower 20%.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with highs in the mid-20s.