Regents Set Athletic Finances, Postpone Allocations of Money
Allocation of money collected through student activity fees has been "practically paralyzed" by action taken July 26 by the Kansas Board of Regents, according to Bill Ebert, student body president.
During a closed meeting the Board voted to freeze allocation of activity fees to student organizations pending an investigation into the amount and distribution of fee money by Regents Bubb, Cromb and Stewart
In the same meeting the Board voted to freeze budgets for athletic departments in all state schools at no less than the 1969-1970 level.
Ebert said the second decision allocated $180,000 to the University of Kansas athletic department. The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee previously had lowered the athletic department allocation to $130,000. This is the first year the Student Senate has been empowered to distribute activity fee money.
"We were counting on that $50,000 to help fund new organizations or to supplement funds already granted," Ebert explained. "Now even if they release the other money after the investigation, we still only have $42,500 to give all remaining organizations, and that includes the BSU and the Kansan."
"We had a misunderstanding with the Kansan over their funds, and the BSU was late submitting a budget request," he continued.
Approximately $400,000 was available for distribution, Ebert said, for which the Student Senate had received requests totaling about $700,000. Subtraction of the $180,000 for the athletic department plus trimmed requests from other organizations left the $42,500 amount, he said.
Results of the Board of Regents subcommittee's investigation will be presented to the Board Sept. 17 and members then will vote on whether or not to release the money. Ebert said the subcommittee met Aug. 19 to discuss proposed allocations with members of the Student Senate Executive Committee and Finance and Auditing Committee, but he said the Board had given no indication as to their final decision.
Woman Fills New Position
Miss Margaret Louise Schutz of St. Louis, Mo., has been appointed to the new position of director of field instruction in the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.
Miss Schutz, known nationally as an innovator, had filled the same position for in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University for nine years. She began her KU duties this month.
As director of field instruction at Washington University, she had to find internships for from 170 to 190 students each semester in recent years. To meet this problem she organized field student units who provided services in areas where established agencies were lacking.
Miss Schutz also was associated with a six-year pilot project that tested novel methods of field work instruction. A few schools have adopted some of the ideas in the project report issued in 1969.
Chalmers Attends Canada Meeting
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. is attending a meeting of the International Association of Universities in Montreal, Canada.
Chalmers will return to his office Sept. 3 from the meeting, at which representatives will discuss problems confronting the modern educational institution.
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"The Student Senate had no warning the Board of Regents would freeze the funds," Ebert said. "The basic question is who controls money — their elected representatives or the Board of Regents."
Max Bickford, executive secretary to the Board, said after the July 26 meeting that the Board thought athletic departments needed protection because of their obligations to pay notes for new stadiums and synthetic turfs.
this campus and mistakenly assume the conditions are the same as when they were in school."
"Priorities of the Board are in
need of radical revision," Ebert commented. "They do not understand the conditions existing on
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