THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CLOUDY
83rd Year, No. 54
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Friday, November 10, 1972
Shirley Chisholm To Speak Here Tuesday
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Peace Talks Slow; U.S. Still Hopeful
PARIS (AP)—The U.S. delegation at the Vietnam peace talks expressed renewed optimism Thursday that peace was near victory and fruitless session at the conference table.
This optimism was reflected neither by the Communist side nor by the Saigon delegation. The three-hour 16th weekly session brought sharp recriminations against Mr. Obama and his delegates. The U.S. delegation excited confidence and avoided the arguments.
The U.S. delegation spokesman, David Lambertson, told newsmen at the end of the session, "I am optimistic that an additional private meeting is going to take place with lawmakers who matters still unresolved will be taken care of and agreement will be reached."
Kissinger and The negotiated last month a draft agreement later published in outline by Hanoi, North Vietnam set Oct. 31 as the deadline for final settlement, and several points remained to be clarified.
Lambertson indicated that the forthcoming secret meeting would be between President Nixon's security adviser, Henry Paul, and former Ambassador to the Palestine Polliborne member from North Vietnam.
The North Vietnamese spokesman, Nguyen Than Leh, said Theo was in Hanoi and he knew of no plans for his return to Paris to resume secret talks with Kissinger.
Kissinger's top aide, Brig. Gen. Alexander M. Hag, flea to Saigon, apparently in a renewed effort to persuade Nixon to draft agreement. Nixon dispatched Hag immediately after his triumphant reelection. Some South Vietnamese officials felt the election result would enable Nixon to accept on Thieu to accept the draft agreement.
Thieu has objected to numerous provisions of the draft, particularly its failure to provide for withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces from South Vietnam. Tin Song, a newspaper close to Thieu, said he believed that there was no withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops. It added that Thieu still insisted on cease-fires in Laos and Cambodia.
provements, which are designed to boost the station's coverage in low-lying areas where reception previously was weak, will be beneficial to both the audio-reader for blind and handiepped instoreens and to the station's regular broadcasts.
Tower Power
Bob St. John, Salina senior, assists in the improvements to campus radio station KANU's tower located on West Campus. The im-
Senates Independent For Lawrence, K.C.
By CAROLYN OLSON Kansan Staff Writer
Under the revision all-University Senate was created which will be composed of the two governing bodies, each to be called a University Senate.
Amid cameras and bright lights, the University Senate passed Thursday a proposed amendment to the 1970 Senate Code which separates governance of the university in Kansas into similar but separate bodies: the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses.
The revision automatically went into effect and senators then conducted business as members of the All-University Senate. Lawrence members converged in the University of Chicago to meet a meeting was transmitted by microwave television to the KU Medical Center
At the same time, the Medical Center senate meeting was viewed by Lawrence members on a screen in the University Theatre.
A PROPOSAL calling for the use of a mail ballist for All-University Senate meetings when one-third of the members present request it was adopted by a vote of 240 to 64.
THE STUDENT members of the
University Senate (Lawrence campus) thus
decided to
Tuck Duncan, Wilmette, III., senior, speaking before the vote, said the adoption of a bill by the Senate would precedent in the governing of the University. He said that a mail ballot should be used in rare exceptions and only for the purpose of holding clauses and amendments to constitutions.
Carl Lande, professor of political science and East Asian Studies, argued that a mail ballot was necessary. He said that the students should be commended for their high attendance at University. Senate officials said the university condemned for their low attendance.
When the mail ballot is used, the executive secretary is to attach arguments for and against the proposal as discussed and send the ballot to all members.
Fine Arts Salaries Called Inferior
BY DAVID HEALY
Kansan Staff Writer
The faculty of the School of Fine Arts has the distinction of being one of the lowest paid segments of a low-paid University of Chicago, where he received his Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Studies by Borton show that a professor in fine arts averages $3,000 a year less than the total KU average; an associate professor, a graduate and an assistant professor, a $1,400 lease.
University of Kansas faculty salaries generally rank low in comparison with those of other universities in the United States.
In a report issued last spring by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), KU salaries in allprofessorial ranks were the below 20th percentile for universities in the upper division to which KU belongs.
Among Big Eight schools, KU salary averages for professors rank fourth; for associate professors, eight; for assistant professors, seventh and for instructors, fifth.
"Low salaries have great effect on faculty morale and make it difficult to keep our faculty here," he said. "Almost every day a member comes in to talk about his salary.
"Some faculty in key positions are getting restive and have recovered their files with phone calls."
"We get competition from places that should not give us competition, schools considerably lower in stature. One faculty member went to a school with a non-accredited music program and received $5,000 more salary.
GORTON SAID TUESDAY that 10-15 years ago, salaries in music and visual arts were lower than those in other fields. He attributed the success of apprehension, which he said, no longer exists.
"I feel the faculty is grossly underpaid and am on their side."
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Gorton said the Board of Regents raised salaries by across the board percentages. He said this meant people with higher salaries received higher raises while those with lower salaries received lower raises and that the gap between the different levels was still widening.
GORTON'S STATISTICS show that fine art salaries were 18 per cent lower than the KU average in 1972 as compared to 13 per cent in 1962.
"We have asked for special consideration, because we feel, as a group, we are discriminated against," he said. "We realize certain disciplines have higher
salaries but we feel fine art salaries should parallel those in the humanities."
Gorton's studies show that the average salary in humanities is $3,000 higher than in fine arts for a professor, $1,300 for an assistant professor and $1,200 for an assistant professor.
When asked about the salary situation, one assistant professor of music said, "It's a crying shame that a university should put up with the fact that we talk about salaries all the time.
"The quality of KU has to be weighed against salaries elsewhere. But how can KU be a prestigious school when it pays its学费? It may be the best school would treat its faculty that way."
`MY COLLEGUES are becoming our national profession and many are looking for it.
Antonio Perez, assistant professor of voice, said he wished that his salary was better and that he probably could make more money elsewhere.
He said he liked the university environment at KU and he had a nigeric studio and a higher salary here than at the last school in which he taught.
"One guy left for higher wages but a few
"I have been here for five years and see no reason for hope."
months later wrote saying he wished he was back." Perer said.
James Rowland, associate professor of design and chairman of the department, said salaries were very bad and drastic action would be necessary to change them.
BESIDES LOW salaries, poor facilities make it hard for the visual arts to compete with higher paying careers. Murphy Hall can attract people to the music faculty, the visual art faculties turn people
one vote an amendment which would have allowed the use of a mail ballot for the University Senate (Lawrence campus). The vote was 73 to 72.
Visual arts is in 14 buildings, two of which are west of Iowa, St. and its faculty do not work there.
Amurose Sarkice, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he had sympathy for the salary problem in fine arts and would like to do something about it.
He said he thought the market situation as such that fine arts was lower on any menu in New York, but it wasn't although supply and demand are a factor in determining faculty salaries, they are not a
He said there could never truly be a representative body at any University Senate meeting because only certain elected students were members of the group, but virtually all faculty members are in University Senate.
He called the University's present financial plight "a frustrating situation to
James Moeser, associate professor who teaches organ and chairman of the institution's administration committee of the University, proposed the code revisions, supported the mail ballot for both the All-University and University Senate (Lawrence campus).
The microwave transmission to the Medical Center was stopped and the newly created University Senate (Lawrence Institute) required to require their University Senate to meet at least twice each academic year, in the fall semester and in the spring semester.
Senate members at the Medical Center were not allowed to vote on the mail ballot proposal for the University Senate (Lawrence campus).
After the defeat of the amendment calling for the use of a mail ballot for the University Senate (Lawrence campus), the All-University Senate was adjourned.
Should the time come when the University is able to raise faculty salaries, Saricks said, it could be possible to give deprived segments a boost.
Before the amendment could be voted on.
He also said that if the quorum of 218 members wasn't reached at next week's University Senate meeting, the University Council would be convened to consider the code changes before submitting them to the chancellor.
a call for a quorum check was called. Not enough members were present to constitute
Herman Lajan, associate professor of political science and presiding officer of the University Senate (Lawrence campus), 5:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
THE FIRST ORDER of business at next week's meeting will be to vote on the proposed amendment to convene the University Senate (Lawrence campus) twice each academic year. In the original code revision, the University Senate (Lawrence Campus) would meet "at least once during each academic war."
Other code revisions to be considered arguaranteed graduate student representation in the University Council; granting membership in the University Senate; make it a legislative body and the University Senate a reviewing body; and granting membership in the Faculty Council to some nonrenowned faculty and some unclassified University personnel.
No meeting was scheduled for the All-University Senate.
Nixon Promises to Cut Budget, Federal Jobs
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Nixon says there will be no tax increases to solve domestic problems in his second term and adds "nothing could be further from the mark" than the suggestion he'll advocate massive new social programs.
He also forecasts federal job cuts in many areas, including civilians in the Defense
As the first of hundreds of standby resignations reached his desk, Nixon worked on the floor, where he met with
His aim is to squeeze the fat out of the barreaucy and make it more efficient in your diet.
WITHIN HOURS after his re-election, Nixon instructed all his appointees to turn in resignations as a matter of form. Offers to resign traditionally follow a president's re-election and ever has tradition been underscored by a White House announcement of the fact.
"This country has enough on its plate in the way of huge new spending programs, so we need to find solutions to problems," the President said in a pre-election interview with the Washington Star-News, published Thursday. The president also asked House correspondent Darger, G. Horton
"WITH A PURITAN fervor he has seldom shown in public, Nixon seemed to be closing the door on a time in which he felt the nation was weakening. In his character weakened," Hunger wrote.
The President said, "The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to do something to something. He is going to do something."
`'If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and complete his life.'`
make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual."
THE PRESIDENT said he would press for a trimmer federal government "which will make government run better at less cost."
He said, "There will be no solutions of problems that require a tax increase. I am convinced that the total tax burden of the American people, federal state and local, has reached the breaking point. It can not go higher."
There will be cuts across the board in federal jobs, including the White House.
"in terms of the hardware of defense, the cuts that can be made certainly are minimal, except when we get mutual agreement from other countries," Nixon said. "But in terms of the masses of civilian employees who are getting in the way of each other, they are antagonism and around the country, they are going to have to take a thinning down."
In discussing the election campaign, Nixon said he thought the Eagleton affair affected the outcome by no more than five per cent of the vote.
"THIS ELECTION was decided the day George McGovern was nominated," Nixon said. "The issue in this election was his presidency and his ability to the solid majority of the American neocle."
One of the great issues of the campaign, Nixon said, was whether the United States would step up to its responsibility and lead the way to peace or turn isolatist.
He talked of the courts and repeated that he intended "to continue to appoint conservative judges to the courts." He said, "not reactionary judges but men who are institutional conservatives because the trend was gone too far in the other direction."
Fees Rise Gradually, Begin Rapid Climb After 1960
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN
In 1972, over a century later, thousands of KU students pay a tuition of $243 a semester if they are Kansas residents and $475 if they are nonresidents.
The 55 students who attended the first classes at the University of Kansas in 1866 paid $30 a year to listen to lectures by three teachers in a lone house on Mount Oread.
If they were orphans of Civil War soldiers they paid only one half of that, and if they were orphans of men killed in Quantrill's attack, they could attend without charge.
Kansan Staff Writer
Each school year the Kansas Board of Regents determines the incidental fees for all schools. These fees pay for instruction, maintenance costs and maintenance costs.
THE STUDENT privilege fees include the student activity fees, health service cost, assessments for new University buildings, and free distribution of the University Daily Kansan. These fees are set by the ad- dication with advice from the Student Senate.
Tuition includes two classes of fees: incidental fees and student prizes.
The table shows the magnitude of tuition increases in the last 10 years compared with increases for the other six decades of this century. In 1900, there was no tuition charge for residents. By 1900, residents were charged $450. In 1923, charges increased from $122 in 1905 to $243 in 1972.
Through the first half of the century, each decade averaged an increase of $20 to $30. In the last ten years, tuition has jumped $20 or more every two years.
There has been a history of tuition escalation between 1900, when residents can attend free, and 1972, when tuition is nearly $500 a year for instute students.
from $10 in 1900 to $199 in 1960. The nonresident tuition currently is $538. These figures indicate the spartan tuition in recent years, and it is seven times what it was 10 years ago.
Many of the tuition increases have been the result of increments in the student privilege fee rather than the larger incidental fee.
THE NONRESIDENT tuitions increased
The total tuition figures in the table are computed by adding the student privilege fee to the incidental fee. The privilege fee is based on the full-time students, residents and non-residents.
In the first half of the century the incident fee was the bulk of the tuition just as it is today. The remainder was either a health care fee or a one-time matriculation fee. Use of these fees varied enough from year to year to account for changes in the tuition totals for these years.
THE INCIDENTAL fee has increased from $85 in 1963 to $180 in 1972. This $85 main
has been in three gradations over those years.
During a meeting in June the Kansas Board of Regents voted an increase in incidental fees for all state schools. In the fall of 1973 Kansas residents will pay $25 more a semester and nonresidents will pay $125 more a semester.
According to Chancellor Raymond Nichols, this increase and the spiraling trend of past increases are the result of inflation.
He said that the other major determinant of the increase was a changing opinion on the locus of responsibility for the costs of an unwritten agreement. He argued that he been an unwritten agreement between the regents and the state legislature that University students should pay about 25 per cent of the costs.
THE LEGISLATORS and regents are beginning to take the position that students have no power to govern themselves.
He said he thought this trend would "price some students out of the University."
students at KU recently had been paying as much as 30 per cent of the total costs.
"The real question is what is a fair share the student should pay," he said. "I think it matters."
Max Bickford, executive officer of the board of Regents, said that an awareness of the need for more students to Board's decision to raise the fees in the state. He said the primary reason for the increase was that Kansas universities had a fee lower than the other Burie University universities.
"We (universities in Kansas) have fallen behind the average fees of other Big Eight universities."
FOR EXAMPLE, instate students pay $35 a semester in incident fees at Iowa State University. Instate students at KU increase the expected increase becomes effective.
He said there was no regent policy to raise the percentage of the operating costs borne by the officers.
"I wouldn't say it's been a change in philosophy," Bickford said. "It's been a change in life. It has just gone from a little over 25 per cent to a little under 30 per cent.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SEMESTER TUITIONS
Incidental Fees Total Tuition
Resident
Non-Resident
1860 $100.00 * $100.00 *
1865 $200.00 * $100.00 *
1870 $200.00 * $200.00 *
1875 $200.00 * $200.00 *
1880 $200.00 * $200.00 *
1890 $200.00 * $200.00 *
1900 $200.00 * $200.00 *
1910 $200.00 * $775.00 *
1920 $200.00 * $775.00 *
1930 $200.00 * $775.00 *
1940 $200.00 * $775.00 *
1950 $200.00 * $775.00 *
1960 $700.00 * $150.00 *
1965 $150.00 * $194.00 *
1969 $150.00 * $194.00 *
1974 $150.00 * $194.00 *
1980 $150.00 * $200.00 *
1985 $150.00 * $200.00 *
1990 $150.00 * $200.00 *
1995 $150.00 * $200.00 *
1999
- per year (if student privilege fees remain $33.00)