Friday, September 2.1977
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.88,No.5
KANSAN
Robert Presley, Chicago senior, walks through heavy vegetation, refreshed by this week's heavy rains, along the 1200 block of Mississippi Street.
Overgrowth
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Med Center leader resigns
BvSTEVEN STINGLEY
Staff Writer
tobert Kugel has reigned as executive vice chancellor to the RU Medical Center after months at a hospital in Tokyo.
Kugel will remain at the Med Center as a part time faculty member in pediatrics and also will continue working on special planning projects.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has named David Waxman as acting executive vice chancellor. Waxman has been deputy executive vice chancellor of the Med Center.
Kugel said last night he resigned to return to teaching and clinical work. He said he had been in administrative work for the past eight years and this "was the right time for
BEFORE COMING to the Med Center, he was chief administrative officer of the Bernalillo County Medical Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Kugel became executive vice chancellor of the Med Center April 1, 1976. It was his third administrative position at different schools in seven years.
beginning in 1874, and was dean of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine
On Wednesday night, Kugel had told the
Karman that he had "no knowledge" that he was able to receive a vice chair at the Med Center.
Dykes said yesterday that Kugel had made his own decision to resign and that there was no pressure from the University administration for Kugel to resign his
But Dykes added, "It was not a unilateral decision on the part of Dr. Kugel and not a unilateral decision on my Dr. We talked things out together and reached a joint agreement."
DYKES EMPHASIZED that Kugel had made contributions to the Med Center, including work on long-range planning projects and the Outreach program, which places doctors in small Kansas communities.
However, Dykes admitted there were many problems at the Med Center.
“But most of those problems haven’t been related to Dr. Kugel,” Dykes said. “I don’t think it would be fair to lay them at his feet.”
When Kugel became executive vice chancellor, the Med Center was feeling
repercussions of a four-month halt in heart surgery which ended just before Kugel arrived. During his administration, there have been nurse staffing shortages and problems with construction of the basic sciences building and clinical facility.
ASKED WHETHEIR the administration has been satisfied with Kugel's job performance, Dykes said. "In some ways yes we are doing better," he noted, the nature of most administrative positions.
"There is pressure to the job and many problems associated with it," Dykes said, pointing out the average tenure of top administrators is approximately two years.
The KU Med Center has had three different persons in the position of executive vice chancellor the last 26 months. David Robinson became acting executive vice chancellor when William Rieke resigned in June 1975.
Nieke, who became the Med Center's top administrator in 1971, said when he recalled a former staffer who was trying to get
Administrators' pay worries profs
See KUGEL page three
By MARTHA FASSETT BRUSE WELLS
and BRUCE WELLS Staff Writers
Criticism of disparities between administrative and faculty salaries has led the KU American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to plan action to raise faculty salaries at KU, but the relationship between KU faculty and administrators does not seem to be seriously strained.
AAAP members met privately with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes yesterday to discuss a study presented at last week's AAUP meeting that indicated that KU administrators' salaries ranked among the highest of administrators across the
country, even though faculty salaries ranked in the 40 percentile.
The AAU decided that the study, conducted by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), was to recruit students from the English and president of the AAU chapter, said. The AAU decided it would propose resolutions to prompt the legislature to raise faculty salaries and would meet with Gov. Mike Huckabee to host a conference Oct. 8 to discuss the salaries.
THE STUDY compared 1976 faculty and administrative salaries at 240 colleges and universities with enrollment of more than 7,500. AAUP members at last week's meeting were disturbed by the study's news and requested the special meeting with Dykes.
institutions, including Pittsburg State University and Emory University. University and Emory State University.
Dykes said he preferred a study done by the American Association of Universities (AU), of which KU is a member, which includes other North Central universities. The North Central AU members are the universities of Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. The Michigan State and Ohio State universities.
SCOTT SAID THAT the AAU study showed that KU administrative salaries ranked in about seventh place, but that KU teachers ranked in the lower half of the schools.
Dykes said yesterday that the AASCU was because in the study KU was compared with those in the study.
Grant Goodman, professor of East Asian studies and history and an AAUP member, suggested to Dykes that administrators be appointed from the faculty on a rotating
asis with only a slight increase in pay on a three-year trial basis.
Goodman said faculty members could fill administrative roles for two- or three-year periods.
No action was taken on the suggestion
No action was taken on the suggestion. Scott said, "There has been a good relationship with the faculty and administration at KU and we want to maintain that relationship."
Hyokes said one of his goals had been to get faculty salaries comparable with salaries at similar schools. As part of a three-year plan to boost salaries, the Kansas legislature approved an 8 per cent salary increase for faculty and 10 per cent increases in 1976 and 1977.
THE KANSAN also has conducted a survey of administrative and faculty salaries in Big Eight conference schools.
Gas rates will increase Another boost may follow in October
Eight was chosen because of the See AAUP page five
Staff Writer
By STEVE PARSONS Staff Writer
Natural gas customers in Lawrence, who began paying one gas rate increase last week, may face another gas price rise in October.
In a meeting yesterday afternoon, a representative of the Black and Veach Consulting Firm of Kansas City, Mo., explained to the Lawrence City Commission that local residents face an average total hike of 4.8 per cent in their gas bills by Oct. 23. the effective date of the second rate increase.
The consultant said the first rate increase, which averaged 2.5 per cent on residential bills, had been collecting on bills since Aug. 14, 2013 and was below the average bill of $19.60, making it $20.09.
The reason for the rate increase was an increase in gasoline in the cost of gas purchased by motorists.
gas supplier for this area, the consultant said.
THE GAS COMPANY did not pass this increase on to its customers until Aug. 23. This left $92,800 in bills for which area residents were not charged between January and the last week's rate increase, the consultant said. These losses will be written off by the company, he said, and Lawrence residents will not retroactively be charged.
The second rate increase will average 2.5 per cent, but can not be implemented until approved by the city commission. This increase will raise the average gas bill another 45 cents, the consultant said. The combined effect of the two rate hikes will be to raise the average residential gas bill to $20.54.
Lawrence Mayor Marne Arngersinger said the city commission would most likely approve the second rate increase at one of the next two Tuesday night meetings. A
complicated matter such as setting gas
conflictally contested by the commission,
he said.
THE CONSULTANT said the second rate change was needed because of an unusual increase in insurance costs for the gas company. Within the past year, liability insurance rates per year have increased about $2,000 to almost $18,300 hea
increases have been common among gas companies this past year, the consultant said. The higher rates are most likely due to increased demand for gas pipelines involving gas pipeline explosions, he said.
There are six categories of gas rates in Lawrence. In addition to residential rates, other categories and their respective total gas rate hikes are: small industrial, 5.7 per cent; large commercial, 7.9 per cent; commercial gas, 8.6 per cent; University of Kansas residence halls, 7.5 per cent; large commercial buildings, 5.5 per cent; and large industrial, 9.4 per cent
The last rate hike in Lawrence was 3 per cent Oct.23,1976.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
WASHINGTON — Presidential press secretary Jody Powell yesterday attacked press coverage of Budget Director Bert Lance's financial woes and cited in particular a newspaper report based on an interview with a former official of the Carter transition staff. That official confirmed that as Lance's personal friend, he helped him gain interest by investigating his financial affairs and declaring him free of conflicts of interest. See story page two.
Powell blasts Lance publicity
Hurricane heads toward Mexico
BROWNVILLE, Tex. — Hurricane Anita suddenly grew to a 150 mile an hour storm last night as its center swung toward the sparsely populated southern eastern Mexico. Forecasters warned that population centers along the Texas coast, but apparently had been spared the worst of the storm. See story page two.
CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Singer and actress Ebyl Waterls died yesterday at age 76, apparently of heart failure. Miss Waterls was famous for her gospel songs and was a member of the Gospel Singers Orchestra.
Gospel and blues singer dies
Locally...
Del Urnhul, associate professor of speech and drama, says he thinks today's changing lifestyles are reflected in a wide range of possibilities for theater designers. Urnhul, the University Theatre's new scen designer and technical director, says a designer should use techniques and materials and suit the environment in which she works. To design the sets for "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Eccentricities of a Nightingale," for the University Theatre's 1977-1978 season. See page six story.
Bulb vendor leaves frat in the dark
Don Malone, house manager of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, said yesterday that a woman identifying herself as Aggie called him yesterday and offered a free gold watch if he would buy a case of light bulbs for his house.
Fire triggers alarm over safety
A woman identifying herself only as "Aggie" is apparently attempting to sell light bulbs over the phone for a company she says is located in Topeka. However, she is not familiar with western Bell and western Bell as being disconnected in Ransom, about 175 miles to the west.
Bv TERRY SELBY
Malone said the woman claimed to be representing Liberty Industries of Topeka.
Staff Writer
Reported fire hazards at the county subsidized Valleyview Nursing Home, 2518 Ridge Court, provoked the Douglas County Commission yesterday to appropriate $25 for the purchase of modern fire detection equipment.
She offered him a special reduced fraternity price of $201.60 for 240 bulbs, he said.
A Fire Aug. 15 in the nursing home's air conditioning caused $6,000 damage to the system and spared the lives of 80 people in the Kansas Power and Light Company (KPL). None of the 110 residents and staff were injured in the fire, which was confined to the air conditioning
A case of 240 light bulbs retails for $230.00.
Judy Kroeger, Consumer Affairs Association director, said the Topper Better Business Bureau had never heard of Liberty.
A call placed to the phone number Aggie gave for her company reached a recording, which said it was a disconnected number in Ransom.
However, Robert Neis, county commissioner, said yesterday, "Something is
drautatically wrong out there. If something
would be better for other things than
conditioners burning up, it might be
Kathy Smith, Valleyview director, said the nursing home's air conditioner repairman, Paul Subakjia, attributed the fire to a faulty electrical transformer.
"THEER'S NO WAY on our part to prove
that we can do it in Kansas Power and
I light remains to admit it."
However, L.E., Lucas, KPL division manager, said Valleyview officials were confused and had installed the wrong air conditioning equipment.
"Transformers would have nothing to do with the damage," he said, "it is merely the misuse or misapplication of the equipment they now have."
Clark Brubecker, state fire marshall, said the nursing home was in good shape when he inspected it almost a year ago, but he was not aware of the recent fire.
Smith said KPL had promised to check the transformer Monday. In the meantime, she said, the air conditioner's condenser will be installed a day a man to say sure it does not overheat.
The nursing home has an old-fashioned fire alarm system, according to Smith, and the appropriated money will be used to update the equipment.
"We're not getting the new equipment solely because of last month's fire," Smith said, "but it did point out the weaknesses in the system and got me thinking about
Tiaht quarters
Severe overcrowding in KU's residence halls has meant that squir KU students, including Wolfgang Dirnagt, Hamburg, West
Germany, graduate student, have to triple-up. Although his room was designed to accommodate two persons, Dirnagt has found himself with two roommates. See story page 10.