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Friday, Sept. 11, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Senate Acts on BSU Funds
BY BOB DICKSON Kansan Staff Writer
The debate over the Black Student Union allocation Wednesday night during the Student Senate meeting resulted in an additional $4,950 funding of BSU programs beyond the $14,000 recommendation by the Senate Auditing and Financing Committee.
The additional funds provide $2,700 for rental of an off-campus Afro House, $1,350 for an orientation week and conference of regional black student organizations, $500 for deposits on profit-making movies and a $400 salary allocation for the director of Afro House.
This increase still fell more than $30,000 dollars short of the original BSU budget request. Included in the cutback was the programming for the regional conference.
La Verta Murray, Kansas City senior and president of the BSU presented the budget demands to the senate. He said he plans to resubmit the budget request for
the regional conference to the Senate Finance and Auditing committee.
"The Senate's treatment of the BSU allocation was not fair," Murray said. "This was largely because so many vital programs had been cut out in committee and never reached the Senate itself."
Greg Thomas, Topeka senior, and vicepresident of the Senate said he had mixed feelings about the BSU allocation.
"From the senate viewpoint, however, the allocation was a step in the right direction. Many valuable programs can be continued and expanded. I am glad to see that."
"I can see where La Verta was upset. From the black perspective, the allocation was not enough. For the blacks, there is no substitute for necessities.
The travel allocation to the KU band was given with the stipulation that girls seeking to join the band would not be discriminated
against. Brad Smoot, Sterling junior and president of the Student Senate Executive Committee is one of the proponents of this stipulation.
"Band positions are available," Smoot said, "and should be open to girls as well as guys. They have been discouraged in the past because of alleged expense of buying their own uniforms, traveling problems and so on.
"The stand the senate took to provide the uniforms, places the band director, George Boberg, in a position to accept the girls or have judiciary action brought against him.
"We are working on getting a published statement that girls will be allowed to participate with the band if they are qualified."
After the budget was approved, all resolutions were adopted, and the Forum Room in the Kansas Union cleared of the remaining senators, a very weary Bill Ebert, Topeka senior, who chaired the six hour meeting, described the effect of the Senate's work.
Grad Students Find Jobs Are Dwindling
"I expected most of the sore points in the meeting," he said. "Under the pressure of time limitations and under the shadow of the Regents action, I suppose it went as well as could be expected."
Ebert said the first year experience of allocating these funds illuminated the fact that the activity fee system is in real need of revision. In the future he said the activity fee should be cut.
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geology were not numerous, and job opportunities are not as limited as in other fields.
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Job opportunities are becoming more scarce for holders of M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, William P. Albrecht, dean of the Graduate School, says.
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More people now hold high degrees, Albrecht says, creating a shortage of the jobs that are usually filled by holders of graduate degrees.
Some students are hesitant to enter the Graduate School because of the limited availability of jobs, he says.
Lawrence Brady of Topeka hopes to finish his Ph.D. in geology next month. Brady is a sixth year Ph.D. student. He says he is anxious to get out of school, and is not worried even though he has no job yet.
A graduate student has six years to complete his master's degree. Seven years is the time limit for a doctorate.
Albrecht says that some of the factors that influence the time it takes to complete a graduate degree are:
- STUDENTS sometimes find their research lengthened as years go by.
- MANY students have heavy teaching schedules that limit their time for graduate study.
- OFTEN, a student prolongs his graduation in fear of failing oral examinations.
- **FEAR** of the draft encourages some students to extend their studies.
"Students make the mistake of applying at big universities that are already well staffed," she says.
Stephen Reid, Columbia, Mo., is a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in English. This Is Reid's last year and he says he is finding job opportunities limited. Teaching positions at big universities are scarce, he says, though there are jobs open at junior colleges and branch campuses of state colleges.
Pam Young of Topeka is in her first year of grade school, working toward an M.A. in English. She says she has no reluctance to enter the Graduate School, even though jobs are reportedly scarce.
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