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KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, August 25, 1981 Vol. 92, No.3 USPS 650-640
Budig stresses faculty pay raise at convocation
BY SHARON APPELBAUM
Staff Reporter
Officials dressed in colorful academic robes gave laudatory speeches at yesterday's convocation, but under the ceremonial veneer, plain politics reigned.
Budig has said he hopes to convince the *Kansas Legislature* of 13 percent approval from University faculty.
In his inaugural address, Chancellor Gene A. Budig stressed the importance of support for the university, saying, "My fundamental concern is the issuance of adequate compensation for our faculty and staff."
But State Sen. Paul Hess R-Wichita, later his proposal's "out of the realm of possibility."
After a luncheon following the ceremony, Hess said she would see the governor and the Legislature given that gift.
Hess, however, took a pessimist view of Bengal's chances of pushing through his proposed institute.
BUDIG HIS TRAVELED around the state this summer to drum up support for the University. He has said that he has traditionally worked well with state legislatures. While he was president of West Virginia University, he won a 12.5 percent increase for university staff
"If you look in past years at the amount asked by the University and the Board of Regents, although they ask for increases in good faith, in the amount asked by the Board responded with the amount asked for," he said.
Hess said that if teachers ended up with a 9 or 10 percent salary increase, they would be better off. The average would be better off.
"average," but he said he would be disappointed with a figure lower than 8 percent.
Hess was part of a crowd of 3,000 people, including state legislators, Gov. John Carlin and members of the board of Regents, who heard Budig's speech in Allen Field House.
CARLIN ALSO SPOKE at the ceremony and told Budig, "The people of this state are impressed with what they've seen so far. I want the opportunity to work with you on your goals."
But later, Carlin said he could not predict what and of sailing increases he would propose to the islanders.
"It's something we can work through the process. I've historically been a strong backer of higher education, but now I don't even know what kind of revenue is available."
"I think the Legislature in all likelihood will be inclined to go along with what the governor is instructing."
Hess said the final salary figure would depend largely on Carlin's final proposal.
"We'll do all we can not to allow the universities to deteriorate. We can't just cut back every year without deterioration occurring."
THE LEGISLATURE APPROPRIATED a 7 percent salary increase last spring. The Board of Regents had proposed an 11 percent increase, while Carlin asked for 8 percent.
"I think we silk back this year," Hess said. "We had a pretty tough year."
He said he favored an increase that could compete with inflation and possibly surpass it.
But Budig said in his address that salaries intended to compensate for inflation were not enough.
"It is not simply that we must keep pace with
inflation, although the deed is pressured," he said.
See CONVOCATION page 5
Future bleak for 13 percent increase
RICHARDSON/Knapp Staff
Chancellor Gene A. Budg adjusts his袍 before yesterday's convoction and inauguration held at Allen Field House. Some 3,800 people attended the mid-morning ceremony.
Staff Writer
By BOB MOEN Staff Writer
The 13 percent faculty pay raise sought by Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Lawrence legislators apparently have a slim chance of being cratched through the 1982 Kansas Legislature.
Hayden said that he understood Budig's request to help the higher education institutions but that the 13 percent raise was, in reality, unfessible.
"It is unlikely that an increase like that would be "appressed." State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday.
He speculated that any salary raise would be between 7 and 10 percent year after the year he started.
Since beginning his chancellorship, Budig has
been stumped the state's 105 counties to meet legislators and win more money for higher
"Dr. Budg has done a phenomenal job contacting legislators on a one-to-one basis about the need, volume and service the University of Kansas provides to the people and youth of the state," State Rep. John Solbach, D-49th District, said.
Sobach, who has talked to Budig twice, said the new chancellor's efforts "could be successful" and added that the state could afford an increase of more than 13 percent in faculty salaries.
"Thirteen percent is a moderate increase in light of inflation on faculty salaries," he said. "Kansas is a wealthy state and can afford to support education more than years ago."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-46th District,
she also supported the 13 percent increase.
but she doubted that such an increase would be passed.
"I think we ought to try for 13 percent, but we might end up with 10," she said.
However, the third representative from Lawrence, Jesse Branson, D44th District, said he better supported Budig's lobbying efforts would make it easier to other legislators about the University's needs.
She commended Budig's efforts, but she sent the final salary increase would be decided by the Legislature no matter who was chancellor.
"It is much easier to talk to a legislator who can identify with and know about a problem," she said.
But, she said, the faculty pay raise depends on the amount of revenue the Legislature produces.
Such key issues as the severance tax, which
y issues as the severance tax, which
See INCREASES Rows 5
KEITH FLANFRV/Kansan Staf
Campus crusader
Chris Alexander, Bird City junior, a member of the campus Christian group Marantha, preached outside Flint Hall yesterday. KU students were less than receptive as they walked past Alexander without acknowledging his message.
KU halls not yet filled despite big enrollment
By JANICE GUNN
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Staff Reporter
Despite an increase of 24 students after first day enrollment this year on the Lawrence campus, the number of KU students living in residence hills is down.
"This is the first time in five years that we have not had to go to temporary housing," said Fred McEhlene, director of the office of residential programs.
In the past, residence halls were usually overflowing with students the first week of classes, and many students lived in the libraries, rooms or rooms of their halls until openings were available.
The only hall that was forced to use its ironing rooms this year to house students was Oliver Hall, McElenzie said. Oliver was overcrowded from the day students were allowed to move in.
According to McElenhie, McColum Hall, which has space for 53 more students, has the greatest number of openings of the eight KU residence halls.
A cut in the hall's student-government or party budget is possible, McKillen said, because of the fallout from the 2011 attack.
Students were given until 12 p.m. yesterday to arrive at or contact their halls. After that, their spaces were available to any students seeking rooms.
Some students who wanted a roommate, but never got one, were lonely last week.
"Not having a roommate is kind of nauty house! I'm new here," she said. "I'm lonely at time."
Carol Lachti, Moundridge graduate student, said that she knew of at least three girls on her floor in Hashington Hall who were living alone in double occupancy rooms.
"I would guess that we didn't merchandise them well enough or advertise them well enough," said Tina. "It could be a good idea."
One of the two apartment complexes owned by KU's housing department, the Jayhawker Tower, has several open apartments left. The other apartment, Stouffler Place, is full and has a waiting list.
TOM PRATT, manager of the Jayhawk Tower, said that he was not sure how many apartments he had left but that he had enough to put a vacancy sign outside.
J. J. Wilson, director of the office of housing, and extra space in the Towers could have been built elsewhere.
Compared to some of the other apartments in Lawrence, the number of vacancies at the Towers was high. A salesperson at Meadowbrook Apartments, T-101 Windsor Place, said that only two studio apartments were available.
A manager at the Village Square Apartments, as Avalon Road, said no apartments were available.
Whistle sounding off on time-for a change
It has been a University of Kansas tradition since 1923. It awakens sleeping students and cuts off long-winded professors.
Warren Mitchell, of Mitchell Agency Realtors in Lawrence, said that there were only a few apartments left in the complexes his firm rented.
The keeper of KU time is the steam whistle atop the power plant building, and because of a new digital computer master time system, it will never ever be ever, Thomas Anderson, director of Facilities.
Last spring the widely heard and respected whistle misfired and occasionally didn't sound at all.
The problem could have put an end to KU's resounding signal for the end of class periods—
the old pendulum-style timepiece was a candidate for the lunk vard.
The mechanical parts in the heart of the old clock had worn out. Anderson said.
Facilities Operations employees sounded the whistle manually for a couple of weeks while they waited for a new computerized ticker to arrive.
However, the 5-second burst of steam from the boilers powering heating and cooling systems at
Although the Facilities Operations people tried their best, the whistle sounded sporadically. Students and faculty came to mistrust the whistle, if it even sounded at all.
the University may now be more accurate than most of the other timepieces in Lawrence, Anderson said, because it is synchronized by short-wavelength radiation. U.S. Bureau of Standards in Collins, Colo., Carlo.
"We hear about it whenever the whistle doesn't blow," said Gary McManness, electronics technician in charge of the new clock.
McManness said the only thing that could possibly go wrong with the new clock would be electronic problems but that the clock shouldn't break down after because there were no moving parts to wear out.
Weather
Partly cloudy skies are forecast by the National Weather Service in Topeka for today and tomorrow. Today's high temperature will be in the upper 80s but it will be slightly cooler in the mid 69s. There is an 82 percent chance of rain today and tomorrow.