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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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82nd Year, No.68
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Last Issue Of the Semester
Friday, December 10, 1971
Phase 2 Debate Begins
House Republicans Attack Retroactive Pav Raises
WASHINGTON (AP)—Republicans opened an attack on provisions broadly calling for retractive action of frozen pay raises Thursday night as the House began debate on Phase 2 economic legislation.
At issue is a section of a bill approved by the Banking Committee providing that previously negotiated pay increases caught in the 90-day freeze be paid unless they are unreasonably inconsistent with wage rates in the economy generally.
A Republican-backed amendment would provide instead for payment of such raises where they are tied to price increases, or the fact that employers, where they are died to tax lakes.
THE PROVISION in the committee bill "makes no economic issue," Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois told the House. He is chairman of the House Republican Conference.
But Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman, D-Tex, complained that the bill submitted by the administration originally did not deal with the question.
"If we allow for retroactivity in all cases, it would undo the effect of the freeze," Anderson said. "It would create a devastating effect on the economy."
"THE COMMITTEE insisted that this nagging and divisive question be dealt with by providing that such contracts and agreements were to be honored unless the wage rate was unreasonably inconsistent with the rate of wages in the economy generally."
There was no controversy on the basic issue of extending Nixon's economic control authority a full year—through April 30, 1973—or providing essentially the machinery he asked for to administer Phase 2.
The House hopes to send a Phase 2 bill to the White House early next week.
TWO PROVISIONS of the Senate measure are not in the legislation before
the House. One would cancel President Nixon's six-month postponement of a pay raise for federal civil employees and the military that had been scheduled for Jan.
The other would exempt news media, broadcasters and magazine and book publishers from both price and wage controls.
The Pay Board Thursday night approved the new rail signalman's agreement through next April 1, virtually closing a two-year round of rail-industry bargaining marked by strikes and special acts of Congress.
The total 42-month agreement, which covers a period beginning Jan. 1, 1970, calls for raises, totaling 47 per cent, according to the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman. The board approved the contract but said the last three raises, which begin to fall due next April I, would be accepted just as for other railroad unions.
ALSO THURSDAY a presidential advisory panel urged the Pay Board to keep all state and local workers under wage regulation, but not. It recommended, however, that all state and local raises within the board's 5-per-cent guideline be approved automatically.
The same panel, the 17-member Committee on State and Local Government Cooperation, further recommended to the Price Commission that state and local fees and service charges be freed from price controls, as taxes now are.
The signalmen's agreement was approved by a 9-3 vote with public members making up the minority. There were two officers in one absence, a board spokesman said.
The signalmen, whose 10,000 members make up only 2 per cent of America's railroadmen, had the first duty to settle. In a two-day strike earlier this year, but were
KU Arab Club Seeks American Participation
Editor's Note: This is the last in a five part series dealing with KU minorities: blacks, Mexican-Americans, Orientals, Arabs and American Indians.
Among the minority groups on KU's campus there are approximately 70 Arab students. Nations represented in the Arab population are: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, and South Yemen, Kuwait and Bahrain.
The purpose of the club is twofold,
By PHYLLIS AGINS Kansan Staff Writer
MOHAMED BUMEIS, president of the club from Tripoli, said one of the biggest problems within the club was that there were not enough American students in the club. He suggested that many students "feel the nation is not ready to take the nation out only, which is not true."
having both cultural and social purposes. Culturally, its purpose is to help American students appreciate it and understand students of Arabic and other languages students interact with American students. Socially, the club brings together Arab students who want to learn and allows them to interact and exchange ideas.
Arab students are active in several organizations on campus, including the Arab Student Organization, the International Club and Small World.
The Arab Student Organization at KU, a branch of the Arab Student Organization in the US and Canada, was formed about 1986. It is the name of the Arab and American Club.
THE ARAB STUDENT organization is planning to have several Arabs or people from other countries to attend.
See MINORITIES, Page 6
sent back to work by a special act of Congress.
THEIR CONTRACT required advance approval of the Pay Board because it was settled two days after the end of the wage freeze.
Still at issue is retroactive payment for other rail unions of some raises held up during the freeze. Approval of the sigmanal's Oct. 1 increase, which fell due during the freeze, brightens prospects for other unions in similar retroactive raises for the others.
In a letter to Pay Board Chairman George H. Boldt, the panel said a special category should be set up for clearing teachers from government workers, including teachers.
In a related matter, the state-local committee recommended, by a less than unanimous vote, that the Pay Board clarify its rulings on merit pay as they apply to government workers. The exact vote was not disclosed.
Christmas Vespers Sunday in Hoch Auditorium
The University choirs, the University Symphony and the Brass There will be no admission charge. Christmas carols will be played Ensemble rehearsed Thursday night for the 47th annual Christmas procession will present them after Christmas
Financial Crisis Affects KU Faculty
Editors' Note: The following story was written for the Kansas Alumni newspaper which will be issued next month. We thank Alumni association officials and Mrs. B.J. Pattie, editor of the newspaper, for helping Kansan to use it prior to their publication.
George Worth, chairman of the
By GAYLE TRIGG
Every year there are certain issues which reflect the mood and concerns of the people on Mount Oread. This year the issue is that many students have University and the fear of faculty exodus.
The administration, alumni, concerned student groups and faculty members, some organized, others not, have turned their full attention to educating the public to the needs for more tax dollars to support higher education.
The threat of a faculty exodus because of the zero per cent increase in salaries by the 1971 legislature is an important argument for more money. There is now a law that prohibits faculty exodus. By the usual resignation deadline of May 15, 1971, few faculty members had announced termination of their contracts than had the previous year. The legislature, however, did not announce the termination of all faculty making it all but impossible for most teachers to find other jobs. It is this academic year only which will show the effects of the salary freeze. Most faculty are still employed and decide to leave until they see what action the legislature will take in January and February.
GEORGE WAGGONER, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (which represents about 75 per cent of the University), argues that the fundamental question is not who is leaving, but what is leaving? Is it morale? Has Assessment that is low.
department of English, said that the English faculty realized that Kansas is in a financial pinch and until it is eased, there was little chance for KU to fare better. But the English faculty recently sent a resolution to Dean Wagner expressing his desire for the low cost of the salaries in their department as compared to English teachers at other Universities and to faculty in other departments at KU.
"Morale has always been good," Worth said, "but it has declined seriously and will even more. Everyone is just as didicated, the kind of guy who upsets, and upset, it affects your effectiveness."
An immediate effect of the low faculty salaries is the amount of outside work being carried by some professional faculty to help meet the cost of living increases. A faculty member in the School of Business estimated that 65 per cent of the business
faculty had taken consulting jobs.
"IF YOU NEED MONEY," she said,
"what do you do? You weak it hurts our academic work, but it is an option when there is not enough money coming in."
In general, it appears that college resists the issue of unionization and too, expect it to be minimal. Yet the KU chapter of the American Association of University Presses is strong.
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Survey Intimates Pervasive Effects Of Budget Cuts on Faculty at KU
By BARBARA SPURLOCK Kansan Staff Writer
Of 576 University of Kansas associate, assistant, and full professors and instructors who returned a Kansan questionnaire last week, 177 said they would actively seek a teaching position at another university this year.
159 said they would not seek another position this year and 240 were undecided. Many who were undecided said they would look for another offer if the financial situation at KU did not change within this fiscal year.
Only 119 faculty members who returned the questionnaire said they had actively sought a teaching position elsewhere since they came to KU, and 307 said they had
Teaching students was ranked most important to most faculty members. They often offer ranked; second, was research focused on media and publication or artistic presentations, and
fourth, participation in departmental committees or professional societies. Faculty members were asked to rank the four most important (4). First place vote totals were teaching, 469; research, 102; participation publication or presentations, 22 and in writing, 87.
Faculty members said that current budget cuts limited their work in their preferred area moderately to very greatly. 165 said their work was affected by the cuts, and 84 said it was slightly affected, 80 said it was slightly affected and 38 said it was not affected.
Budget limitations have more severely hampered faculty members' work in the area of teaching materials than in lab facilities, office facilities and teaching materials. The faculty was asked to rank the areas from the most hampered (1) to the least (4), rated equally by a faculty member who were each counted as the same number vote.
AREAS AFFECTED
See SURVEY, Page 2
Concentration on Life Styles Takes Protest's Place
Editor's Note: This is the third in a three part series on the changing complexion of women.
By ANN CONNER
Kansan Staff Writer
Suggestions already advanced by those interviewed in the first two parts of this series to explain the quieter mood on campus this year include frustration with the lack of demonstrations, commercialization of the protesters' symbols of identification and the absorption of radical elements into the system. Consideration of the destructive effect of demonstrations is subtle, individual tactics and the fact that demonstrations have become too commonplace to draw much attention also were mentioned Bianauer Bauer, Lawrence graduate student and student senator, who gave these suggestions in a recent interview.
Bauerle thought increasing concentration on individual life styles was now taking most of the energy that once was lost in everyday life. "Now there's a new mood and that's the seeking of self," he said. "To look at yourself is more energy saving than mass media, and so it's doing nothing and doing now is dealing with themselves and their own personal life styles."
BAUERLE BELIEVED it would be hypocritical to demonstrate for an hour or two against a system or set of values if he went home after the demonstration and lived in a way that perpetuated that system. The point is, he said, to make one's own life style consistent with the ideals of the protest movement.
"HOW CAN I maintain my own consciousness and still keep a roof over my head?" Bauer remarked. "There is much more emphasis on craftsmanship than in the past. You plan where you can have a job and not be part of a system you don't believe in."
"People are trying to deal with political issues on a private level, but they're harder to identify now. You can no longer identify them by length of hair, but more validly now, you have to identify them by the way they live their lives," he said.
Bauerle is a graduate assistant in the School of Social Welfare and works part-time at the KU Mental Health Clinic. For the past two years he has worked as a teacher for education for the Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Office of Education.
A trend was developing, Bauer said, for young people to take a part-time job which would maintain them on a low income, while they gave the rest of their
time to volunteer institutions, such as the Headquarters Crisis Center or Pennsylvania House, a food and clothing clearing house in Lawrence.
Bauerle, who lives on a farm outside of Lawrence, explained that he eventually hoped to become financially independent and could start a garden, and perhaps by making grand-father clocks, so that he could devote the rest of his time to his personal projects in social work. Most of his present income goes to his job in the School of Social Welfare.
"People are going back to law schools for other purposes than to get a good job with a law firm and make it; they want to make enough of a living to stay alive but at the same time to do something socially significant," Bauer said.
"MY BASIC GOAL is not to be tied to a salaried position," he remarked. "I don't want to be agency connected; I want to be a free agent."
Bauerle had noticed a definite change in emphasis from short-term mass goals to long-term goals.
"Before, we were looking for a quick solution, like one or two years," he said. "I am not going to be working that I'll be working on for the rest of my life. This is part of a maturing process that
Donald K. Alderson, Dean of Men, mentioned several changes with which he was familiar that might have contributed to the calm campus.
in the Dean of Men's office, he said, several new staff members had been added who were familiar with the students and staff; he thought these staff members could establish links of rapport and communication with different segments of the student body, and thus avoid the division of administration and students.
I think we all went through."
IN ADDITION, Alderson said there was a trend for the staff to go to different parts of the campus where the students were, and to ask the students to come to Strange Hall.
"There's more work being done outside the office," Alderson said. "We're working with people in the scholarship halls and in the five College Within the college offices. Some other people are working with programs in the residence halls.
"We're beginning to have some contacts with people living in unorganized houses," he added. "And we also would like even more staff and staff member to work with black students."
"We're not spending much time
"They may have discovered that these encounters can be extremely difficult and therefore would like to look for ways to avoid them. They have been exposed to the tensions and violence and have seen what it does," be remarked.
He thought another possible explanation of the quiet mood was that today's freshmen and sophomores had already seen the effects of mass demonstrations which occurred while they were still in high school.
worrying about homecoming floats and dances," Alderson commented.
"One school of thought has it that Kent State did quiet people down," he said. "It certainly proved the government was wrong." But why did it if it didn't like what was going on.
"POSSIBLY PEOPLE have concluded that there are better ways to bring about change than a dramatic, sometimes damaging confrontation." Alderson said. "I can help but wonder what the effect of these policies on students. People in the rough years at Lawrence High School are now perhaps sophomores at KU.
The effect of exposure to violence was also discussed by Louie Wolfe, director of the Lawrence Peace Center, in a recent interview.
Wolfe thought that if the government were using the demonstrations as an excuse to "bash heads," it was likely that the governor would have to provide them with an easy opportunity.
"IREALLY HAVEN't talked to anyone who has said they aren't going to demonstrate because they were afraid of what he was telling me, told us what the stakes were," he said.
Most of the energy generated by discontent, Wolfe thought, was now expended in individual projects in the local community.
"The highly visible activities aren't around," he remarked. "There are smaller things that are going on and since they are quiet, you don't know what other small things are going on at the same time."
Some of the quiet projects in Lawrence which he mentioned were pre-schools for small children, projects for court and jail reform, efforts to improve relations between the police and the community of the city, and the Emergency Service Council to help people on welfare.
WOLFE ALSO MENTIONED a new organization called IMPORT, which was formed in 2013.
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