UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1948
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Faculty Salaries Behind Those Of Other Schools
Faculty salaries at the University are better than they have been but "lag behind those of other schools in whose educational circles we feel that we belong." University chapter of the American Association of University Professors reported at its dinner Saturday in the Kansas room of the Union. Approximately 75 faculty members attended.
E. O. Stene, associate professor of political science and president of the chapter, read a preliminary report of the committee on retirement policies The report was prepared by Spencer M. Smith, assistant professor of economics.
The report was prepared by Ross M. Robertson, instructor in economics, and read by L. J. Pritchard, associate professor of finance.
However, the report added that of the 12 universities compared, Kansas has the lowest minimum salaries for professors, associate professors, and instructors. The report was based on 1948 salaries, and in addition to Kansas included the universities of Georgia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois.
J. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering, and Tom Page, instructor in political science, reported on the national A.A.U.P. convention held recently in St. Louis. E. E Bayles, professor of education, reported on the A.A.U.P. state central committee, which is now gathering information on why faculty members leave Kansas colleges to go elsewhere.
At Kansas the minimum for professors is about $3,600, with the maximum about $6,200 and the median about $4,800. Illinois has the highest minimum with $6,000, and the highest maximum with about $13,500. The lowest maximum is Georgia's $6,000.
The minimum for associate professors at Kansas is about $3,000, with about $4,600 as the maximum and $4,000 as the median. Illinois has a $5,000 minimum and an $11,000 maximum. Georgia has the lowest maximum, with $4,500.
The median is the half-way mark in a series. Thus half of the salaries will be above that mark and half below.
The Kansas minimum for assistant professors is about $2,300, with about $4,200 as the top, and $3,600 as the median. The Illinois bottom is $4,000 and the high $6,800. Georgia and Missouri have the lowest minimums with $2,500. Georgia also has the lowest maximum with $4,000.
Kansas minimum for instructors is $1,800, which ties with Iowa for low in the group. The Kansas maximum is about $3,200, with about $2,600 as the median. Again Illinois has both the highest minimum with $3,900, and the highest maximum with $5,500. Colorado has about $2,.900 for the lowest maximum, and Missouri has about $2,400 for the lowest median.
The report of the committee on retirement policies contained the April 23 ruling of the board of regents. Briefly, the ruling is that teachers can retire at 70 on one-half of the average of their pay between the ages of 60 and 65, but not to exceed $2,000 a year. Administrators are to be retired at 65 on the same pay basis.
Both must have served at least 25 years for full retirement benefits. Proportional retirement pay is granted for less than 25 years of service, but a minimum of 10 years must have been served.
The retirement pay of teachers who retire before July 5, 1953, will be based on the average of their pay during the ages of 65 to 70, provided that the retirement pay is not more than $2,000 a year.
Any staff member who cannot perform his duties because of physical or mental disability can be retired on the same basis as a staff member who has reached the age of 70.
KU Names Harp To Cage Staff
For the first time since 1935 the University will have a full-time assistant basketball coach.
Dick Harp, former K.U. basketball player and new varsity coach at William Jewell college, Liberty, Mo., has been appointed assistant varsity and freshman basketball Frosty Cox, who resigned to coach coach. The last assistant coach was at Colorado.
Harp, a regular on the 1938, '39,
and '40 teams and co-captain in
1940, will report for duty July 1.
He was graduated from the University in 1941.
Pep Clubs Hold 12th Convention
Marjorie McCullough, publicity chairman for the Jay Janes, was elected vice-president of Phi Sigma Chi, university women's pep organization, at its 12th national convention held Saturday in the Union.
Other officers were elected from other ppclubs which are members of Phi Sigma Chi. These are the Tassels of Nebraska, the Purple Pepsters of Kansas State, the Twisters of Iowa State, the Ichadettes of Washburn university, the Feathers of Omaha university, and the Wheaties of Wichita university.
The convention opened with a breakfast at which Marion Minor, college senior and past president of both Jay James and Phi Sigma Chi, presided.
Conboy And Miller To Run Jayhawker
William A. Conboy and Dean M.
Miller, College juniors, were appointed editor and business manager of the 1948-49 Jayhawk.
They were chosen by the Jayhawker board of faculty members and students.
Conboy has been a reporter and sports editor on the University Daily Kansan, and has been on the Jayhawkter staff. He is also co-editor of the Quill club magazine.
Miller has had two years experience with the business management of the Jayhawker.
6 Million Vote In South Korea; Red Block Fails
Seoul, Korea. May 10—(UP)—More than six million South Koreans voted today in the first general election in Korea's 4,000-year history, despite a Communist campaign of terror.
At least 100 persons were killed, 62 were wounded, and 233 were arrested over the week end as Communists sought to keep South Koreans from the polls in the United Nations-supervised elections.
Two hours after the polls closed election officials estimated that 92 per cent of registered voters had cast ballots in Seoul, and probably 80 per cent or more in other areas of the United States-occupied zone. About eight million had registered, no elections in the
There were no elections in the Soviet-occupied northern half of the nation.
American troops merely observed the elections. They took no hand in keeping order. But Korean police swarmed against the Communists, and smashed their planned reign of terror.
In Seoul, police surrounded a secret meeting of 200 Communists and arrested 54 of them, scattering others. There were Communist assinations, attacks on polling places, but no organized violence on a large scale.
Most Koreans took the election day in holiday spirit. Dressed in their best clothing, they were waiting in hundreds at the polls when voting began. In Seoul, 80 per cent voted before noon.
The monthly dinner of Summerfield scholars will be held at 6 p.m. May 12 in the Kansas room of the Union. It was originally set for May 13.
The election is for candidates to a 200-man national assembly designed to draw up a constitution and form a government. Only South Koreans are voting despite United Nations instructions to hold elections throughout the country. The Russians forbid an election in their zone in North Korea.
Scholars' Dinner To Be On May 12
Little Man On Campus
Jerald Hamilton, fine arts senior, and Richard Potter, engineering senior, will be the after-dinner speakers.
"Professor Snarf!-I think it's for you."
Apply Now For Union Committees
Applications for membership to Union Activities committees for next year will be accepted in the Union Activities office tomorrow through Thursday.
Chairmen of the committees have been selected and students who apply now will form the foundation for next year's organization.
The committees are sports and organization, social, entertainment, public liaison, coffee and forums, K-Union, secretarial, decorations, special projects, publicity, announcements, and art.
Application cards are available in the Union Activities office.
Men's Counselors To Be Chosen
One hundred and fifty men students will be chosen to counsel 1500 new men students next fall, L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, announced today.
The counselors will be chosen from recommendation lists of the deans of each school, the Owl society, and men from organized houses, Otis Hill, spokesman, said.
Aimless all new students will be fresh out of high school and won't be able to live in organized houses." Hill said. "It is important therefore, that men's counseling be more effective than ever."
Each counselor will write to 10 boys this summer to facilitate counseling in the fall, Hill said.
Members of the counseling committee are Dean Woodruff, Ned Linegar, Y.M.C.A. secretary; Willis Tompkins, assistant dean of men; Bob Chesky, president of the Y.M.C.A.; Bruce Bathurst, men's counselor for last year; and Hill, former Union president.
Any male student interested in being a counselor should apply at the Y.M.C.A. office.
2 Students Enter Engineer's Contest
Two University engineering students will compete for over $100 in prizes at the annual conference of student branches of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Tulsa, Okla. Friday and Saturday Charles H. Green will read a paper on stresses in steam piping, and James T. McKinney will read one on heat purposes. Both are engineering seniors.
Harry L. Daasch, professor of mechanical engineering, said the students' papers were selected in an elimination contest held at the University. Professor Daasch, mechanical engineering instructors, and other mechanical engineering students will also attend the conference.
Students from Kansas State college, the Universities of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Arkansas, and Oklahoma A. and M. will also enter the contest.
Chancellor Malott To Give Two Addresses This Week
Chanceflor Deane W. Malott will speak Wednesday at the annual honors convocation at Warensburg State Teachers college. His topic will be "The Place of Scholars in the Turbulent World."
Thursday he will speak at Commencement exercises at the Labett County Community High school at Altamont. His topic there will be "A Compass in the Storm."
Faculty Will Have Picnic
The faculty engineering wives will entertain their husbands and families at a picnic at 5:45 p.m. Thursday at Potter lake. If it rains they will meet in Robinson gymnasium.
Jewett Touring For Survey
Dr. J. M. Jewett of the state Geological Survey will be in Pittsburgh his week at the Southeastern offices of the survey. He will also attend a meeting of the Kansas-Oklahoma Water Flood association in Independence, Kan., Wednesday.
44 Journalists Honored For Kansan Work
"Newspapers in the future will be judged not by their objectivity but by their good morals and integrity." Gideon D. Seymour, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, told journalism students and faculty members at the annual Kansan board dinner Friday.
Forty-four students in the William Allen White School of Journalism received recognition awards at the dinner.
"Objectivity is colorless," Mr. Seymour said. "No newspaperman can write a story or place it in a certain position in the paper without taking a point of view. Newspapermen must develop a sound basis for interpreting the news."
This basis must be specialization in reporting, Mr. Seymour said. The reporter of today not only has to have a well-rounded education, but should be a specialist in some field such as science, labor, city or state government, economics, or politics.
Mr. Seymour used the phrase "Kilroy Was Here" as a symbol of the intellectual curiosity of Ameri cans all over the world. Since newspapermen will be concerned with the affairs of that world, they must have the moral integrity to do interpretative reporting.
William T. Smith, Jr., Dighton, received the citation of achievement from Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, as the outstanding senior man in the Journalism school.
The Henry Schott memorial prize was given to Fred Kiewit. College junior. The award is for the junior man who shows the most promise of success in journalism. The cash prize is the income from a fund of $2,275 established in memory of the late Henry Schott of the Kansas City Star staff.
Clarke M. Thomas was chosen by the faculty as the outstanding senior man and Marian Minor as the outstanding senior woman in the news-editorial sequence.
William L. Brown and Joan Schindling were chosen as the outstanding senior man and woman in advertising.
Seven students in the upper 10 per cent of the senior class received the scholarship awards of Sigma Delta Chi. They are Thomas, Smith, Allan W. Cromley, Anne Scott, Alverta Niedens, Cleo Norris, and Robert C. Snyder.
The following are the awards for outstanding work on the University Daily Kansan:
Best news story: first, John Wheeler; second, Martha Jewett; third, Robert E. Dellinger; honorable mention, Charles Roter, Fred Brooks, James L. Robinson, Mildred Gulnik, Cooper Rollow, James H. Raglin, Darrell Havener, Lois Lauer.
Best feature story: first, Fred Brooks; second, Wendell Bryant; third, Caspar Brochmann; honorable mention, Don Vaughan, Clarke Thomas, Leonard Snyder, Rosemary Rospaw, Barbara Felt, Ruth Keller.
Best and most consistent editing and news heads: first, Wallace W. Abbey; second, Lois Lauer, third, James L. Robinson; honorable mention, Alan J. Stewart, Robert E. Dellinger, Joseph Cannon, Cooper Rollow.
Best editorial: first, Allan W,
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Cromley; second, Clarke Thomas;
third, William von Mauer; honor-
able mention, Patricia James, Marian
Minor, Harold Nelson, William Barger.
Best. single headline: first, Donald Croil; second, the tie between William Mayer and James L. Robinson; third, Lois Lauer.
Best advertising campaigns; first,
William Dill; second, Gene Mc-
Laughlin; third, John Ford; honor-able mention, Gregg Stock, Paul
Sokoloff, Frank Rotman.
Best retail advertisement: first,
Carlos Melton; second, Glenn
Amend; third, William L. Brown;
honorable mention, Anna Hemp-
hill, Ladeen Steinkirchner, Anne
Scott.