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The University Daily KANSAN
Thursday, August 20,1981 Vol.92,No.1 USPS 650-640
KU chancellors review past, peer into future Budig promises receptive KU administration
By PENNICRABTREE
Staff Writer
Gene A. Budig, the new KU chancellor, says his administration will avoid the criticisms of inaccessibility and aloofness that have been leveled at past KU administrations.
At his home Sunday evening, Budig outlined
for making the KU chancellorship a
highly visible
Budig, who was appointed in March by the Kansas Board of Regents, replaced Acting Chancellor Del Shankel Aug. 1. Budig will be inaugurated at Monday's 9:30 a.m. convocation in Killeen and served as acting chancellor after former Chancellor Arkhe D'yksign resigned last summer.
Dykes resigned to join a Topeka insurance firm.
"I'm not in a position to critique what's happen here in recent years, but I do know that we understand the situation."
"I've learned that faculty, staff and students are anxious to work with me. Several have told me that they've been underutilized in the past. That will change."
Budig, a 42-year-old Nebraska native, spoke confidently about his plans for the University of Kansas. A careful, methodical man, Budig spoke easily, emphasizing each idea with a precise word.
TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION between faculty, students and the administration, Budig plans to incorporate elected faculty and student leaders into a special academic-administrative council. Budig said he would meet weekly with the council.
"This sort of thing is a new concept here, and I'm confident that it will work well," Buid said. "The council will give everyone an opportunity to become involved in the security and guarantee regular access to the chancellor."
Budget said that during the coming months he would work with the council and with his staff on budget concerns, particularly in the area of salary compensation.
"Last year, KU lost more than 55 faculty members, many of them outstanding teachers and researchers," he said. "Most left because of economic concerns. It's clear that we're losing our competitive edge because of inadequate salary compensation."
In an effort to halt the exodus of faculty, Budig said he would work to persuade the 1822 Kansas Legislature to grant a 13 percent faculty raise and to hire an additional 40 faculty members.
BUDIG, MOH MET with Gov. John Carlin and several members of the Legislature during the summer, said he was optimistic about gaining additional money for the University's faculty.
"I've worked well with legislatures in the past, and I intend to be successful here," Budig
said, "I've talked with the governor and I believe he will be helpful."
While president of West Virginia University last year, Baldogic was a 12.5 percent increase for the university's budget.
Buddy said the governor was concerned about the economy and the impact of federal reductions, and be said the state was committed to advancing higher education.
Budd said he also hoped to increase the operational fund budget to gain more money for the department and improve services.
"We have a strong academic program, but I see erosion," he said. "Our position of leadership in libraries is being challenged and our scientific community is being blunt in depicting the needs to the Legislature."
BUDIG WAS HESITANT to speak about the possible impact recent skirmishes between the Legislature and KU might have on future budget appropriations.
These skirmishes include legislative hearings concerning the controversial trip to Iran two years ago made by Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare, and recent allegations of mismanagement at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
"I prefer to look forward," Budig said, his firm. "I feel good about the University's success."
See BUDIG page 4
Gene Budig
Shankel finds one-year chancellorship rewarding
Del Shankel
By JANE NEUFELD
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
After a year as acting chancellor, Del Shankel said that despite the time and diplomacy the job demanded, he didn't reretreat taking the position.
"Sure, I'd do it again under the same conditions," he said.
"There are some compensations in being chancellor that don't apply if you are executive vice chancellor. When you're executive vice chancellor, you own a lawn. When you're chancellor, you don't."
Shankel was named acting chancellor in August 1980 when former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes resigned to go to work for a Topek insurance firm. Gene Gudwig, former president of West Virginia University, replaced Shankel Aug. 1.
Shankel, who also is a professor of biochemistry and microbiology, had been KU's executive vice chancellor for seven years when Dykes resigned. He had planned to take a sabbatical but did not. He learned that the Kansas Board of Regents had appointed him acting chancellor. He accepted.
ALTHOUGH SHANKEL found the job rewarding, he said that acting chancellor sometimes had difficulty implementing policies and making sense of the nature because he only had temporary authority.
"I think it's always a factor, sure," he said.
"An acting position is always more difficult than if people know you're going to be there for more than one year."
"The role of acting chancellor is a little bit difficult because don't want to do things that will tie the hands of your successor in the future," Shankel said. "At the same time, you want to try to maintain the momentum of the University and not allow the feeling that the University is just
Shankel said that he tried to make decisions necessary to run the University without making decisions that his successor would disagree with and not be able to reverse.
He was satisfied that he had prevented the University from drifting this year, Shankel said.
"I feel that the University did maintain its momentum during the year," he said. "Our students are very interested in doing well. I was pleased that we established the University Festival of the Arts to demonstrate again the University's real commitment to but may be wasn't as important for a while there."
One of the things he is proudest of, Shanker said, is calming the vigorous debate over KU's decision.
DURING SHANKEL'S term, the Regents struck a controversial clause from the Regents policy on the use of campus facilities that prohibited the display of political signs at public gatherings. The Regents then allowed Regents schools to form their own policies.
The Lawrence city prosecutor dropped charges last Aug. 29 against 13 students arrested for displaying political signs at the 1980 Commencement because protesters who displayed a similar sign at Shankel's Convocation were not arrested.
Shankel refused to say whether he thought changes in the free speech policy could have been avoided.
He tried to resolve the problems that occurred during his term even though he only served for a year.
I don't think there are many unresolved
See SHAKEL use 4
Tornado, Regents vacancy top KU summer happenings
Staff Reporter
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
Well, everyone is back in good, old Lawrence and it is just the same as when they left last spring. Wrong. Things have changed both on campus and in Lawrence.
For instance, the K-Mart and Gaslight Village mobile home park at 31st and Iowa streets are undergoing some repairs. Both were heavily damaged when a tornado dopped down June 19, killing a KU graduate student and causing $10 million damage. Killed was Stanley Pittman, 30, a computer science graduate student from Dodge City.
five days earlier in Great Bend, 15 inches of rain fell in eight hours and caused a flash flood that covered 75 percent of the city with water and damaged over 1,000 houses and 150 businesses. Both Great Bend and Lawrence were declared disaster areas and received federal aid.
The Board of Regents, meanwhile, has undergone changes. Regents President Bernard Franklin resigned this summer to pursue career opportunities in Texas.
Franklin, 28, was the only black on the board and had been a Regent for four years. He said he did not want to spend the best years of his life as a Regent.
The Regents vacancy has not yet been filled.
MEANWHILE, the crime rate in Lawrence was only up 6.6 percent, the lowest increase of any state since 1980 at the University, in an effort to help student tensions down, the student bookstore has been remodeled. Now, buying books should be easier, cooler and
However, because of a policy change made in College Assembly last fall, some students will not be buying books at all this semester. Under the new policies, all cumulative grade point average, as well as sophomores who go below a 1.5 and upper-classmen who go below a 2.0, face a year's probation and possible dismissal. Last spring 680 students were out of, 2,200 that were originally on probation.
faster, said Steve Word, general manager of the bookstore.
Those of you who were not dismissed must pay an extra $3 fee that has been tacked on for the 1981-82 school year. Phyllis Howlett, assistant director, gives her salary and the extra funds would go to non-revenue taxes.
"We don't plan to add to any other sports." Howlett said. "The money will only help keep us
See SUMMER page 6
IN OTHER MONEY matters, the Board of Regents formulated a policy for collecting overdue fines from faculty and other university employees. The policy states that a university has the right to withhold an employee's paycheck at least year overdue employee fines totaled $88,000.
A side note to the out-of-staters: A new law in
America that is illegal to sell par-
liamentary and Kansas.
Progress is slow on the enclosed mall issue and if anyone had hopes of bringing their favorite cereal malt beverage to the first home football game, guess again. The issue of beer in Memorial Stadium has been temporarily dismissed.
Moving in
Tuesday was the official moving-in day for students in KU residence halls. Rhonda Dillon, left, Kansas City, Kan., junior, gets some assistance from Tammy Stephens of Kansas City, Kan., with moving some of her clothes into a room in Lewis Hall.
JOHN EISELE/Kansan Staf
Inside Back-to-school
This back-to-school issue was produced by the summer and fall staffs of the Kansan. Regular publication will resume Monday, Aug. 24.
Campus
Section 2
- Four renovation projects may be done by spring 1982. . page 1
* Student fees include on-campus legal services. . page 4
* Winds of change carried athletic director. . . page 8
* KU police offer crime prevention advice. . . page 9
City
Section 3
- The Lawrence Arts Center offers workshops . . . page 6
* Federal cutbacks slow bikepaths' progress . . . page 9
* A complete guide to Lawrence bars . . . page 10
* Local retailers reap riches from annual migration . . page 12
Section 4
County
- Club provides smooth sailing for KU nautical buffs . . . page 1
* Eudora couple a bluegrass, gospel duo . . . page 4
* Burlington businessman glad to have nuclear plant . . . page 7
* The John Birch Society has a member nearby . . . page 11
Sports
Section 5
- Fambrough brimming with optimism on season ... page 1
* WSU added to 1981 football schedule ... page 3
* Gary Kempf to coach men's, women's swimming ... page 9
* Lady Jayhawks face rebuilding year ... page 11