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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday
August 30,1988
Vol. 99, No. 3
(USPS 650-640)
Women, minority profs at KU
Officials say new hirings are 'stride in the right direction'
By Terry Bauroth
Kansan staff writer
KU officials said yesterday that they were pleased with the number of tenure-track and tenured minority and women professors hired this academic year, but agreed that more progress was needed.
The University hired 21 causation women, 48 causation men, four Hispanic men, six Asian Pacific Islander men, and one African American of a total of 69 new faculty members.
"This is the best news I've heard all summer," said Judith Ramaley, KU executive vice chancellor.
About 44 percent of the new hires
were women or minorities. Ramalay said that if KU continued during the war, it would be necessary to proportion of women and minorities, the University would be well its way forward.
"A diversified faculty attracts a diversified body." Ramaley said
Susan Clinez, a member of KU's Minority Issues Task Force, said the hires were a step in the right direction.
"This shows a real effort is being made," she said. "Aimative action guidelines are in place and this is a stride in the right direction."
Collins said yesterday that a task
force subcommittee had recently submitted a study on recruiting and retaining minority faculty and staff who had not been made public that it had not been made public.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, attributed the number of women and minifores hired to the individual departments' increased awareness to the need for a diverse faculty and also to the University's overall emphasis on women in minifores early in the hiring process.
"Keep the spirit of affirmative action in mind and everyone will improve on the hiring of women and
minorities." Brinkman said
Kleyen Hayden, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said that the University continually had commitment to a more diverse faculty.
"Everyone involved wants to see a greater increase." Hayden said. "It's not a significant number. KU still has a war to go."
Margin of Excellence funds made 15 of the 76 positions possible, said Cathy Blumenfeld, an assistant in the office of academic affairs. She said the number of retirements and resignations opened up other positions.
'Kansas' will debut at Topeka premiere
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The motion picture "Kansas" will premiere in Topeka Sept. 22, the night before it begins showing at theaters throughout the country. Jerry Jones, director of the FX Film Commission, said Monday.
The movie, which tells the story of a couple of young drifters who come to Kansas and wind up on the wrong side of the law, was last shot
year in Topeka, Lawrence, Valley Falls and other locations.
Jones said he was trying to line up someone connected with the film to attend the premiere, but hadn't much luck so far. The stars, and not Carthy, Matt and Leslie, are his other commitments, he said.
The name of the theater playing host to the premiere will be announced later.
Student dollars help Lawrence
By Jay A. Cohen
Kansan staff writer
One hundred million dollars. An impressive figure. People have been killed for a lot less.
Lawrence merchants and land lords take less drastic measures, but the amount they obtain from University of Kansas student may be in the
The KU office of admissions estimates a student's cost of living, after taxes, for a dorm room at $4,000. Multiply that by the 26,300 students enrolled fall and the total cost is $59,800.
While it is difficult to determine exactly how much of that money is spent in Lawrence students are an important factor in the local economy. The 1967 Lawrence City Budget expenditures, for example, were more than $5 million. That's less than half of what students are estimated to spend.
"The student population is a good, strong and stable market," said Bill Martin, director of economic development for Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
At first glance Martin thought the $100 million figure seemed a little high. But when comparing that figure with 1967 estimated gross sales in the United States, which indicated that students, roughly one-third of the population, would account for one-sixth of sales. Martin said $100 million
A study done in 1986 found that students spent more than $4 million a month on discretionary items. The average amount of investment or about $6 million during the academic year.
In addition to discretionary items, the Belden Associates University of Kansas Market Study found that 31 percent of major purchases during a 12-month period. For example, 31 percent of RU students purchased home video or stereo equipment in addition to computers or computer computers or accessories or soch; 24 percent bought furniture; 11 percent售现金 car and 11 percent售商品.
Fire codes enforced
The students are also important or local banks. Mack Cock, president of the First National Bank of Lawrence at Ninth and Massachusetts streets, said that the bank made $6 to $7 million worth of student loans annually, and that students had a little more than $1 million on deposit. The bank also used to handle increased business as the students returned to campus.
FirstBank, 655 Iowa St., which handles the University Fee Account, processed approximately $20 million worth of checks during KU's annual budget. The state's Pooled Money Investment Board said. In return for bank services, the University maintains a compensating balance of $725,000 in account, which does not pay interest. Students are only half of the story.
The University of Kansas currently employs 4,230 full time faculty and staff. For fiscal year 1988, the University budget includes about $80 million in salaries; $44 million in operating expenditures, and $20 million in investment.
Plan to comply
Greek houses get expensive renovations
According to the Lawrence fire department, the following houses have submitted plans which will be used them to comply to city fire codes by Dec. 31.
Acacia
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Kappa Lambda
Alpha Tau Omega
Delta Tau Delta
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Kappa Theta
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Theta Chi
Delta Delta Delta
Sigma Kappa
Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi Alpha
The following houses plan to correct violations with full sprinkler systems by December 31, 1989.
Delta Chl
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Kappa Psi
Triangle
Zeta Beta Tau
By James Farquhar Kansan staff writer
Most KU sorority and fraternity houses were cluttered this summer with electricians, plumbers and carpenters.
Workers were scrambling to upgrade houses to comply with the Lawrence fire code before students arrived this fall.
Half of KU3's 38 fraternities and half of KU9's 16 fraternies are up to fire code standards. The university houses press onward as deadlines established by the Lawrence Fire Commission.
Fourteen houses hope to meet
the deadline set by law.
Twelve houses plan to
barr. Five other houses plan to
build a full sprinkler system by
installing pipes in every house.
Barr and Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McWain decided to extend the deadline for houses installing a fire alarm and the lack of qualified workmen.
Any houses whose renovations are not complete by their deadlines may face legal trouble, Barr said.
"If the houses are not up to code when I inspect over winter break, I may file complaints," he said.
It wouldn't be the first time.
Lawrence flicks officials occasionally have used judicial muscle to stress the importance of the
violations, ranging from a lack of outings in sleepy dorms to the need for hard-wire fire alarms or expensive fire escapes.
In April, four houses were issued citations for lack of action on their projects.
Citations against Pi Kappa Theta, 1914 Stewart Ave.; Alpha Kappa Sigma, 1918 Stewart Ave.; Kappa Sigma, 1945 Emery Road; and Alpha Kappa Lambda, 2012 Stewart Ave., were eventually dropped after the houses began falling.
More recently, Triangle, 1144 W.
11th St., pleaded guilty Aug. 19 to
nine fire code violations in
Triangle and the surrounding area.
Triangle's $900 fine was suspended
at the hearing on the condition that the renovations be complete by December 31.
Barr said he pressed charges against the Triangle house because it was not following on its plan of compliance.
Fire codes are an issue after
series of four KU greek house
fires in Georgia that caused fire
at Sigma Phi Epision, 1645
Tennessee St. which caused more
Lawrence fire officials reexamined the city's fire code and decided fire hazards in greek houses had to be eliminated. Once, Greek houses needed only to be up to the fire code standards of the
particular building's era
“This grandfather clause was dangerous,” Barr said at a news conference in May. “It had to be changed.”
Barr said some had procristinated for years in eliminating fire hazards, hoping to avoid the expense.
But their procrastination backfired. Last summer, fire of a gas tank at a campus animation of all Greek house, clining to 10 to 30 fire code violations
In the past year, sorority and fraternity house corporate boards, bodies governing house upkeep, have spent massive amounts of unplanned time and unbudgeted fire code improvements.
Frank Baxter, corporate board president of Acacia, said Acacia, 1100 Indiana St., spent $3,000 on hard-wire smoke detectors alone.
Fire escapes are costly stumbl-
ing. Lambia Chi Alpha, 1918 Stewart Ave,
Delta Delta Delta, 1650 Oxford Road,
and Sigma Kappa, 1392.
Gayle Anderson, corporate board president for Lambda Chi Alpha, said the house received injections from a range ranging from $30,000 to $80,000.
Please see FIRE. p. 5 col. 1
McCollum Hall rates IDs thumbs up
Sarah Chitenden, Overland Park sophomore and desk assistant at McCollum Hall, proudly displays one of the hall's identification cards marked with her thumb print. Chitenden staged about 800 of the ID cards to distinguish them from other residence hall cards.
By M. Meredith Relph Kansan staff writer
Residence hall identification cards are intended to boost hall security and to speed up serving lines in the cafeterias.
Each peach-colored card issued to McCollom residents is emblazoned with a royal blue thumbnail. The design was not intended to befuddle students, but some apparently thought the print was funny. We have asked how the University was able to get their fingerprints.
But the new McCollum Hall ID cards have caused a lot of confusion.
Hall DIs are laminated cards bearing the resident's name and hall. The eight KU residence halls inscribe their colors by color or design.
Randi Schneider, residence hall director at McColum, said all halls did something to make their IDs unique.
Actually, each McColm resident is carrying the thumbprint of Sarah Chubbler, Overland Park and McColm desk assistant.
Chittenden said she was just "in the right place at the right time" to have her thumbprint on the cards. She printed the print to cause such an uproar
"Last year, Lewis Hall had an LJ in the back. This Hassinger has not. "It's just makes them more personal," it just makes them more personal, and it's easier for security to see what is going on."
"We thought the thumbprint would be fun." Chittenden said.
"Sarah and I work at the desk, and I was so busy, while all she did was put her thumbprint on those cards." Shreefer said.
Karina Shreree, a Wichita sophomore who works at McColum's front desk, said the only problem she had with the new cards was the time it took Chittenden to stump 800 of them.
Not all residents were confused about the decoration. Heather Yates, White Cloud sophomore, has a new desk with unique and spacious up hill life.
"All these people would come up and say 'Is that my finger?！' she said. "And I'd say, Yeah, they told me, 'Is that your finger?' you know, just kidnapped them."
Shreeher thought the concern over the thumbsprint was amusing, and had fun with the students who asked her about the cards.
"I thought it was cool," Yates said. "I wasn't naive enough to think it was mine."
Yates said she heard someone talking to the desk assistant about the print on his card.
"He asked how they got his fingerprint," Yates said. "People were really freaking out."
Schneider said there had not been a real problem with the cards.
"We had a few questions, but we explained that the print made the IDs more personal," she said.
Much of the confusion has been cleared up, now that students are getting坠息 in residence hall and she has an idea for next year's halls. *IDA*
"I think we should put lip prints on them," she said.
The Associated Press
Public opinion against air shows in Germany
FRUNKFURT, West Germany — A leader of the environmentalist Greens party yesterday demanded the ouster of West Germany's leading a leftist attack spiked by fatal air crash in Ramstein.
Even before the flaming Italian jet fighter hurled into a crowd of spectators Sunday, West Germans had been embroiled in a bitter debate about low-level military training but this density populated country.
Related story p. 6.
Air force crashes since March had led to pressure on Defense Minister Rupert Schultz to revise rules for the flights to cut down on noise and pollution.
Many people have been calling for even greater curbs.
A dozen protesters hold up banners outside the Ramante gate on Sunday in Bombay to demand justice in a watch in to watch the low-level stunt flights at Europe's largest military base.
"We're afraid," said one banner "Enough low-level flights."
Alfred Mechtersmeier, the leading Greens member in the Defense Committee of Parliament, made the call for Scholz's resignation.
The accident touched off sharp statements from West German's leftists, who targeted Scholz for allowing the military to stage such
The protesters also said they were afraid of accidents at the various military air shows staged throughout the country.
"He bears the primary responsibility for the Ramstein catastrophe,"
Party spokeswoman Christa Venneregs added a morning news conference. "Both low-level training missions and air show are irresponsible."
said Mechtersmeier, whose party also is known for its staunch anti-NATO stance.
Walke Kolber, a member of Parliament from the leftist-lefthand Social Democratic Party, told reporters, "The events in Ramstein proves in a bribe way how dangerous such attacks are for civil spectators."
SDP spokewoman Rose Gosee said, "We demand a clear statement, that air shows of this type will no longer take place with German military members, and we call on the federal government to explain to the NATO allies that such demonstration will no longer welcome on German soil."
Sharply criticizing the organizers of the event, Kolbaw added: "We don't have weapons to stage shows filled with the public."
The SPD is the main opposition party in the federal government.
Later yesterday, Scholz called off future air shows, at least for the time being, under pressure built up even before a representative Christian Democratic Union.
Listist members of the Lutheran Church also joined in with criticism of the nation's military.
Pastor Konrad Luebert of the Committee for Peace, Disarmament and Cooperation called for a ban on air shows and level-missions.
"And not only that, a disarmament or both conventional and nuclear weapons should be the text mankind and to secure peace." The pastor said in a statement.
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