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University Daily Kansan
KU faculty members to head early retirement study
Representatives of the University of Kansas faculty were placed in charge of a special group to study the issue of voluntary early retirement for Kansas Board of Regents schools Saturday at the state fairgrounds. The Association of University Professors (AAUP).
During a meeting in the Kansas Union, representatives from Regents schools agreed with proposals made by William Penn to elect president, on voluntary early retirement.
Scott told members that a plan now being presented by the Board of Regents was not adequate because it did not provide enough information, and locally, members who wanted to retire early.
THE PROPOSED Regents plan calls for allocation of 60 per cent of a professor's income for one year, plus health insurance coverage, should a professor choose to retire at age 62. The state would also continue its yearly allocation of about 5 per cent of his income into an already-established retirement fund.
Scott said, though, that the plan still falls significantly short in equaling the amount of income a professor could have if he chose to retire later.
By ignoring a professor's annual personal contributions and the interest he would accumulate, Scott said, early retirement under the plan would be disadvantageous.
Whether such a plan results in financial savings, the bulletin stated, depends on the cost supplement given to faculties and other students. It must be made sure that mureh will must hire a replacement and at what salary.
the teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), early retirement plans usually are favored by college cut costs for colleges and universities.
The TIAA report stated that any plan for early retirement should give a university more flexibility in adjusting to its staffing needs. The KU group should use in exploring a plan:
- Determine an appropriate level of early retirement benefits that will be financially feasible for the institution and the individual.
- Decide whether the supplementary benefits are an option of option of the institution or the institution.
- Decide whether the program is to be established for a limited period of time or to continue indefinitely.
- Estimate the future cost-benefit results of the program.
porant because any action should be taken by mid-November, when the Regents will decide on the plan and forward it to the Kansas legislature.
ACCORDING TO A bulletin published by
SCOTT SAID the KU chapter of AAPU was awaiting a detailed study of the Rogers Institute's work.
Representatives from the other Regents schools decided they could allow the issue to pass through the Regents and deal with it after KU's report at the AAUP spring meeting. After that meeting, AAUP plans to present its arguments to the legislature.
Also discussed at the meeting was the status of faculty handbooks at Regents institutions. Questions were raised about whether the books were legal documents
and as such, whether they should be more carefully worded. Representatives agreed to discuss the point at a November meeting with Gov. Robert Bennett.
AAUP MEMBERS also tentatively educational goals to be presented to Bennett.
In other action, the conference established two more special groups. Emporia State University was assigned to study financial exigency and retrenchment, and Washburn University will examine university governance.
Lawrence offers aid in Topeka tax case
the city of Topeka will help get from Lawrence in a court case in which Kansas Atty. Gen, Curt Schneider is contesting the constitutionality of a state law used by Topeka to help finance improvements of a blighted downtown Topeka area.
The Lawrence City Commission at last week's meeting allocated up to $1,000 to be used to help the League of Kansas Municipalities prepare an amicus curae, or "friend of the court," brief to be submitted on behalf of Topeka.
THE CITY commission intends to use the same system to finance improvements on the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, according to Mike Wilden, assistant city
He said approval or disapproval of the system would not affect progress of building a city hall in that area. A meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday will be held with the architects of the city hall project to consider two locations for the city hall east of Massachusetts Street on either side of Sixth St.
The law, passed in 1976 and first used by Topeka, provides for part of city, county and unified school district taxes collected after blighted lots are improved to be used to pay back bonds that were used to buy those same lots for improvements. The city must buy the lots, but private developers must do the improving.
TO BUY THE downtown lots, the city must have a private developer willing and able to build on the lots declared blighted by the city.
The law requires a city to prepare a study to show that the improvement will be profitable and a development plan to show that the development fits into the general plan of the city.
The Lawrence City Commission now is considering a proposal by a local architectural firm to draw up a redevelopment plan for the northern downtown area. The city, however, hats not moved to use the proposed plan as part of the tax increment law, although some city officials have said they want to use it.
IF A CITY government chooses to adopt the development plan and use the tax increment financing, a public hearing and election must be held, according to the law. The voters must approve the proposal by a two-thirds vote.
If the proposal is approved by the citizens, the law states that bonds then may be issued by the city to get capital to buy the land. Bonds are issued by selling them to major investors, usually in New York, who will sell them back when interest is earned.
The law gives the city the power of eminent domain to buy the land and relocate residences or businesses. The developer may own the land, then may buy or lease the land from the city.
ONCE THE lots are improved, the increase in real property taxes will be put into a special city fund to buy back the issued bonds, the law states.
Schneider has objected to the legislative authority Topeka took to define its own downtown- commercial boundaries, the allowed use of eminent domain to gain land for private development and the use of taxes for purpose for which they were not intended.
The case has been delayed in its first hearing in Shawnee County District Court because Judge Kay McFarlane, who was appointed by the Kansas Supreme Court, is appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: UNIVERSITY SENATE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE will meet at noon in the Kansas Union's Alcove D. AN OPEN AIR LECTURE on "The People Gap: Is Intimacy Possible?" will be at 12:30 p.m. in front of Wescue Hall. BACK FACULTY AND STAFF COUNCIL will meet at 1 p.m. in front of Wescue Hall. NEXT GROUP: THE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF DIVISION STEEPES, National Geological Survey, on "A Network of Seismographs to Record Earthquakes in Kansas," will be at 4:30 p.m. in 332 Mollt Hall.
TONIGHT: KU DAMES will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Union's Watkins Room. A RESIDENCE HALL LECTURE on "Jesus is not a Great Moral Teacher," will be at 6:30 p.m. in Ellsworth and Templin Halls. FREE UNIVERSITY beginning bridge will be at 7 p.m. in the Union's Parlor A. OPERATION will begin bridge will be at 7 p.m. in W. 10th St. U.S. RECIBIT by Alan Hawkins on the bassoon will be at 8 p.m. in Southeast Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
TOMORROW: AUDIO READER in Sudder House on West Campus Road will hold an open house at noon. AN OPEN AIR LECTURE, on "Is God Relevant Scientifically?" will be at 12:30 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall. JAMES DAVIS, professor at the University of Illinois, will talk on "Jury Decision Processes and No-Fail Strategies" at 1:30 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall. LECTURER will not get a Great Moral Teacher" will be at 6:30 p.m. in McColm and Oliver Halls. ADULT LIFE RESOURCE CENTER WORKSHOP on "Life/Career Exploration for Women" will be at 7 p.m. in the resource center building at 13th and Oread streets. SUA QUAR-TERBACK CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the union's Council Room. SUA BACKGAMMON will be at 7 p.m. in the union's Parors. SCIENCE FILM CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the union's Oread Room. SCIENCE FILM CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the union's Oread Room. SCIENCE FILM CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the union's Oread Room. ON THE Humanities and the New Barbarians, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the union's Walnut Room. VISTING ARTISTS SERIES RECITAL by Bosssart and Fisher, pianists, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Nazis battle opponents in two weekend rallies
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Helmeted members of the American Nazi Party, chanting "white power," battled opposition against violent weekend incidents in California.
Ten party members marched into a rally in an Oakland park where 3,000 people gathered to protest against white engineer Allan Baker's court move to enter a University of California medical school on the grounds of the university because of a minority admissions program.
In San Jose, Nazis who had gained a rally permit in a starmarty city council session clashed with foes in an egg, and were arrested in which eight persons were arrested.
brown shirts and boots, marched to the anti-Bakeley rally in San Antonio Park in drill formation, shouting "white power" as he walked away, saying that "Bakkele equals white power."
There were bloody noses and other injuries in the Oakland incident, which began when the group of Nazis, wearing
"WE CAME TO voice our support for the 'Bakke decision,' Dan Stewart, 37, a Los Angeles leader of the Nazi continent, said.
In protesting the California Supreme Court decision upholding Bakke, a decision that will be reviewed this week by the U.S. Supreme Court, Alameda County Supervisor John George told the rally, "the people of this nation, come not to praise the Bakke case," he said. "The people are slums for people to live in, in people want of decent homes and jobs, we must fight decisions like Bakke's."
City committee to present fluoridation study results
A committee formed two years ago by the Lawrence City Commission to study the pros and cons of water fluoridation will present its recommendation in a few weeks, according to Albert Burgsthaler, University of Kansas professor of chemistry.
Burgsthaier said Friday he and the other committee members would put together a report studying the recent evidence that showed water fluoridation caused cancer.
John Yiamouyiamian, science director for the National Health Federation, recently presented a report to Congress stating that more than 500,000 people alive today could die of a fluoridation-induced cancer unless water fluoridation was stopped.
Yiamouyiannis and R.N. Hoover, a
spokesman for the National Cancer Institute, will debate the evidence at a hearing in November.
Burghalter said the Lawrence committee would consider the outcome of that debate and other evidence before making a recommendation to the city commission.
Donald Binns, city commissioner, said that the city had authorized a committee to study floridation two years ago, and that two member cities of the committee and two were against it.
But he said he had not heard anything from the committee since that time.
Burgsthaler said the committee had been progressing slowly in its research but now is taking a more aggressive approach.
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