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University Daily Kansan, August 24, 1981
Opinion
Battling back on budget
We are 23,500 salmon swimming upstream. As students in general and as students at a Kansas state college in particular we find ourselves battling a strong steady current of financial difficulty. But we swim on.
There were long lines everywhere during enrollment, but if the lines in front of the Guaranteed Student Loan and Pell Grant (BEOG) tables are any indication, the tuition pinch has started.
Unfortunately for students, the pinch has come at the wrong time. Just as tuition climbs, the Reagan administration, in its wisdom, has pushed for and won drastic cuts in the GSLL and Pell Grant programs.
The availability of GSLS had been practically unlimited, but effective Oct. 1, loans are available automatically only to those families whose adjusted gross incomes are below $30,000. The change hits hard at middle-income families, and at
colleges trying to keep enrollments up in the face of disheartening demographics
On Pell Grants, the government has increased the percentage of discretionary income that parents must contribute toward their children's education.
Chancellor Budig has the right idea. He is eager to battle the current with lobbying at both the state and federal levels to safeguard money for higher education.
In apparent mimicry of Reagan's budget cuts, the Kansas Legislature last spring chose to get tough with the Board of Regents. A 10 percent faculty salary increase proposal was lopped to 7 percent. A 9 percent library acquisition request ended up at 5.5 percent.
We're behind him because we have to be. Together, our personal educational aspirations make a up a societal will that must not be ignored. Education doesn't belong under the knife.
Med Center bonus checks defy 'grim' financial outlook
Students are always the last to know and the last to be asked.
The Kansas Legislature voted last spring to raise tuition by 15 percent. The Board of Regents kindly settled on 22 percent despite the efforts of thousands of students who voiced their oppose-ment, and made a decision to increase the university and tuition to increase for the University of Kansas to remain a top-notch institution.
Administrators painted a grim financial picture. Budget cuts had already been made. KU was forced to buy 1,500 fewer books and 800 fewer journal subscriptions last year. Fewer music teams were cut. Costs had skyrocketed and the money just wasn't there. right? Wrong.
While students were working extra hours at often degrading, definitely low-paying jobs so they could write that $459 check for in-state or $1,117 check for out-of-station tuition, thousands of dollars were being given away to the University of Kansas Medical Center to nurses, clerks, secretaries and cleaning personnel. More than $46,000 in bonuses was handed out by Donald Barnhorst, chief of KUMC's cardio-thoracic intensive care unit.
According to Barnhorst, on June 19, $1,000 checks went to each of 23 nurses, in operating technicians, two nurse technicians, an operating room coordinator, two residents, three secretaries and a person who runs the unit's heart-lung machine. In addition a $2,000 check went to David Cobb, chief of the monitoring technicians. A woman who cleans up the operating room and a ward clerk each received checks for $500.
"I told our business manager to reward our people for a year of tremendous work," Barry said. "We all worked together."
Though state law provides nothing in the way of bonus plans for either classified or unclassified workers there seems to have been nothing illegal about the checks because of the way the hospital is organized. Each of the hospital's 15 departments is a private corporation chartered under the laws of Kansas. Barmhorn serves as director and president of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Chartered. How convenient.
Though there was nothing illegal about the
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checks, the sizable amount did raise the eyebrows of some administrators and hospital employees.
For Kansas state-paid nurses who make
whole payments in 1957 a month, $1,000 is a
stable chunk of income
"It's usually not such a big amount of money," Charles Hartman, vice chancellor for clinical affairs at the hospital, told reporters. "Other departments (at the Med Center) have done that (bonus payments) for additional duties at Christmas time."
Barnhorst said he had given out buotes before. He couldn't remember how many times, however. One nurse reported that earlier buotes ranged from $25 to $100.
Aside from the large amounts, Hartman said that the summer bonuses had been a "closed thing." He said he considered such payments "private affairs."
State money a private affair? My, my.
Wouldn't you like to buy a used car from that man?
In the grand scheme of things, $46,000 is not a large amount. When but a policy of cutting back is in effect and students are bearing the brunt of higher educational costs the policy of financial conservatism should be carried out across the Exceptions should be few and far between.
The responsibility of administrators to keep qualified people is important, especially in light of a current nurse shortage, but not to the point where you out hush-hush state money for such extravagance or instead-paying student should be concerned. We deserve better. In fact, we should demand it.
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Fall staff to pursue daily excellence with mix of changes and consistency
Letters policy
With the Back-to-school issue out and this first regular issue in the boxes on Jayhawk Boulevard, much of the worry is past. The work continues daily, so that the most of daily excellence to ourselves and our readers.
The guard has changed on the University Daily Kansan. While much of the campus population basked in a shortened country club week, the guard had been at a center of work and worry for the new fall staff.
Our goal is nothing short of a superb, responsible publication that trains student journalists but it informs, that promotes education of issues while it explores those issues.
Achieving our goal will demand labor and vigilance but the task will be greatly simplified by the many talented, experienced people on the staff.
Bob Schaad, is working closely with me as a fall managing editor. He spent the summer as a copy editor-intern on the Springfield, (Mo.) Leader and Press. Last spring Bob was art director and copy chief for the Kansan and in the fall before was makeup editor.
ScottHooker, an photographer-intern this summer on the Rochester (N.Y.) Deemcrat and director Scott, a Kansas photographer last year, will direct the photography and art staffs.
In charge of staff reporters is Tammy Tierney, who just returned from a summer in England and spent the spring '81 semester as a congressional intern in Washington. Tammy previously worked on the Kansas as a reporter, wire editor and copy chief.
This morning, amid fitting fanning, the University of Kansas gets a new Chancellor, Gene A. Budig, the former president of West Virginia University. At the same time, students, faculty and staff lose an administrator with qualities rarely found in academic institutions. Del Shankel, last year's acting chancellor and a long-time administrator, returns to full-time teaching and research next spring following a sabbatical this fall in Japan.
The associate campus editor is Ray Formalek, who worked this summer as a reporter-intern for the Tulsa (Ok.) Tribune. Ray has been the editor and last spring was assistant campus editor.
Tributes to individuals have never been the stock and trade of journalists; generally, praise is found only in obitaries or at testimonial dinners. And I could easily give such standard line for Shankel: his years of service teaching microbiology and biochemistry as well as western civilization, his enormous list of publications and professional societies and his work with patients, the man, acting dean of liberal arts and sciences, executive vice chancellor and acting chancellor.
Tracee Hamilton, who has traveled through the ranks of the Kansan sports staff first as a sports writer and last spring as associate sports editor, is this fall's sports editor. Tracee spent the summer as a copyeditor-intern in Springfield, too.
Shankel's year marked by calm concern
One KU dean admitted that administrators quickly learn stock answers to difficult problems and often begin losing the desire to find the best solution. One of Shankel's greatest assets as an
This theme was echoed by other students, faculty and administrators whom I talked with last week. Everyone told me much the same thing: Shankel's kindness, patience and genuine concern for individuals and the University make him outstanding.
DAVID
HENRY
On a more personal level, Shankel's genial and low-key manner is almost shocked. Somehow, I suspect most people, especially students, expect an administrator such as the chancellor to be a perennial fixture. Shankel also a leading expert on medieval Polish history. With Shankel, what you see is an intelligent man
In the midst of many skirmishes, Shankel remained calm and patient. During the free speech, banner policy controversy he took a lot of heat from the public and the press and never wilted. Last spring, the way he handled allegations of mismanagement at the Med Center may have prevented massive funding cuts by the Kansas Legislature.
But in doing that, I'd be missing the mark, for Shankel has given KU far more than the facts reveal. After working with him on University committees and seeing him as a western civilization professor, it's clear to me that Shankel's greatest contribution to KU is himself.
The instructor was nas insistence on finding the solution to a problem. Sometimes, of course, this is not possible.
"Shankel genuinely cares about people's opinions and their station in life is inconsequential," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs. "While perhaps it's not very efficient administration, he always took time to listen to all sides of an issue."
without a whiff of intellectual pomposity who
may be able to "go beyond" to-dee-yo-
nature of an innumerable sageman.
A good friend of Shankel's summed it up best. "Del's greatest contribution (to the University) was to bring out the best in all of us as an institution. His qualities are infectious."
Del Shakel also has a strong loyalty to KU. His is not a blind devotion but rather a deep concern for the institution as a community of individuals. Shakel had planned to return to teaching last fall. However, when the Board of Regents asked him to serve as acting chancellor, he accepted the position fully knowing the problems of being a lame-duck leader. Yet, to his credit, he held the place together in the interim year with grace and competence.
His humility is striking when he meets with students. He clearly believes the University exists primarily for the education of students and the transmission of knowledge through research. While he can't always be labelled a teacher, some students are important to him. He works in the dorm room and the laboratory to his administrative work and he resumes teaching next spring.
Thank you Dil Shakker, for your contributions to the project. We look forward to seeing again in the spring.
Administrators are always under careful scrutiny from the public, alumni, faculty and students to make the "right" decisions. Shankel's year as actuarial chancellor proved to me and many others that he was indeed a person of great integrity. His actions have shown that vulnerability and sensitivity can be valuable assets, not liabilities.
SCOTT FAUST Editor
Kathy Brussell just returned from New York, where she spent the summer as an intern for Reader's Digest magazine. A Kansas reporter in Kentucky, Kathy was assignment editor in the spring.
Karen Schlueter, entertainment editor, will be managing a Tuesday and Friday entertainment page called Spare Time. Karen was a Kansas reporter last spring.
Don Munday has been assigned the very important task of ensuring that the articles in these pages are factually and grammatically correct to the letter. As head copy chief, Don will direct two other copy chiefs and guide a staff of copy editors. He was editorial editor in the spring and has also worked on the Kansan as a reporter and assistant campus editor. Don spent the summer as a copy editor-intern on the Milwaukee Journal.
Through innovative use of photographs and art, headlines that grab your attention and interest, or for how the reader will perceive the pages, we hope to produce a more attractive, lively paper.
That's just a sampling of the staff of about 80 that will be putting together each morning's Kansan, along with the overriding goal of exercise, have outlined specific plans to improve the paper.
For similar reasons, the front-page Monday Morning feature will be continued. These articles will be light, entertaining looks at people and activities. You'll like it.
Also in the new pages, in addition to a constant effort at making the copy as probing and insightful as possible, we have chosen to expand our coverage of the student body as individuals.
When you win a scholarship or are sent to a national convention by your organization you'll get recognition in print. This kind of coverage is a hallmark of small-town journalism, and whether we like to admit or not, that's really what we're up to here on the hill.
The editorial page, too, will see some change. We continue to encourage letters to the editor commenting on things we do or on campus and community issues in general, but we want to go a step further. We will publish a guest column every week.
We ask that persons with topics for guest editorsorials call us and set up an appointment with Kathy. We expect to pick and choose from the final list of guests' guidance on the final form the guest columns take.
Tracee, too, has plans to improve the sports page and our sports coverage. For example, in a feature called Etc., she will strive to print results of intramural sports and major league box scores. Also, she and her staff will offer their services on video and on sports and editorial columns on a regular basis.
Like Monday Morning, another successful innovation from last spring, the Friday Pot Shots feature will continue this semester on the editorial page.
So goes a taste of who we are and where we're taking this paper. We intend to keep you interested and keep you reading. Let us know whether we're meeting our goal.
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