Thursday, August 24, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Funds Cut; Research Continues
By KENT PULLIAM Kansan Staff Writer
Federal grants for research at the University level have been decreased over the last three years. Kansas has a Kansas research has gone op . .
According to W. J. Argeringer Jr., vice chancellor for research, he will be helping in what types of projects were receiving funds to continue research explained when the national fund has supported the University and the state have had to compensate for some of the money to keep the programs running.
He said KU was not hurt as much as some of the larger colleges because there was a lot of injuries in areas where the fights were cut.
The government has had a change in emphasis on awarding research applied research rather than teaching. The National Program is research that is applied to national needs and there are specific areas in which research is needed.
ARGERSINGER thought the change was because of the variety of economic and political pressures of the Nixon administration. He said they were working more on the short range search for a nuclear bomb. The searchers were working on long term projects.
"If the government is funding
one per cent and the state only 20
per cent, then it is cut in half, the state has to
make up for it when you want
to invest."
he said, "That puts a bias on our University and its money. If we spend in it research, it can't be put somewhere else."
Another concern is that federal money was used to help set up new people in the departments and get them started with their research and equipment. With the federal money now becoming part of the department's budget it was harder and harder to purchase new equipment.
The equipment that only one man previously used is now shared by a number of people.
EVEN with the federal cutbacks, Argersinger said, most of the funds for research come from sources outside the University or
the department of biological sciences was affected when the federal court directed it to record. According to Ronald McGregor, director of biological sciences, there were some six million cases in which he didn't point the effects of the cuts.
New people had less chance at research than to do any research on their own, so they had not established a reputation. Some of the ones who made such an effort were.
McGregor said as the number grim陵minished in KU, there were less equipment headhead that had been used to purchase new equipment for new students.
He said during the 50s and the 60s, Mr. O'Reilly came from federal grants also helped to finance some of the graduate programs and upper schools he taught.
mismanagement of funds, but the subject matter of the research grants happened to be in the field of education were interested in studying.
THE CUTS in federal funding
of infrastructure
structure of new buildings,
and the loss of funds from national
grant back out some of the pro-
gress made.
"We have been fortunate
been able to bring
anything from our research you,
but if it doesn't improve in the
next couple of years, have some things
McGREGOR said in the '50's when there was enough money to go around to all of the schools there were programs started at early college. When where graduates could go to improve their methods and not have to suffer without money. As money got tighter these programs also had many graduate students have no jobs when they get out of school.
The biggest problem in the biological science area was the maintenance and purchase of new equipment. The equipments is wearing out and there are no funds to replace it. There is a need for a pair a machine if it breaks down.
As the federal monies decreased, each of the departments had to look for other ways of this threat and research. According to McGregor, the department of finance was doing well in finding new money.
This has improved the caliber of some of the undergraduate
"KU picked up some programs related to those areas because we already had people working in those areas."
Another problem the biological sciences department faces, according to McGregor, is that the undergraduate enrollment in that area has increased over the past few years and there are not new staff members to keep up with the number of new students.
"The programs that are stressed nationally now relate to the medicinal field or the environment," said McGregor.
The space technology programs have also seen a shortage of federal funds, but that has not hurt them in finding money to conduct their research, according to B. G. Horn, director of the space technology lab.
programs because some of the people who were doing research have moved in as teachers when family came up in the department.
"None of the cuts have hurt us," he said. "There was one program that we dropped, but it was not a research program."
The federal government is so concerned with the space program being used for man's good interest in space exploration that there is more work to do, he said.
Barr said there was a year and a half of flattening out of the grants, but now it was back on the upswing. He said the space lab did his more things than just work on outer space.
Kansan Photo by JOHN REED
Students Double As Mail Service Employees
Graduate students Rod Oelschlag, Marion, left, and Steve Lachry. Perry . . .
KU Mail Room Is Active; Provides Campus Service
By PAM VINDUSKA Kansan Staff Writer
The campus mailing room in the basement of Strong Hall is something many people know and wish to handle. The hands mail going from one campus building to another. It also handles mail to the campus from students living off campus, or those mailed in a campus mail box.
Campus mail boxes can be found in every campus building. They are located at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on weekdays at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. by the administrative offices in Strong, Minneapolis. There occur four times a day.
Five persons work in the mailing room, three full-time i-team members, Gillespie, head clerk, said employee's duties were to pick up, sort, and deliver campus mail. According to Oelschager, Gillespie, who is the most important employee, one of the most important things they do is handle paychecks. He said this responsibility a large volume of their work.
The building is one of the earliest in the Romanesque Revival style constructed west of the Mississippi River.
Gillispie, who has worked in the
Originally Spooner was a library. Since 1928 it has housed the Museum of Art.
The oldest building on campus, Spooner Hall in Burlington, Spooner He was a Boston merchant and great uncle of Chancellor Snow.
If a letter with a wrong or incomplete address is mailed, it are made to correct the address. If this is not possible, it is returned.
Estimates of the daily volume of mail handled in the room ranged from Gillespie's 500 pieces to employees'账目 of 25 to 30 pounds.
"We do not handle books," Oelschlager said.
Sometimes textbooks are in manila envelopes and mailed, he said, but they aren't accepted or received. They must be returned.
If a person is no longer at the University, mail addressed to him in his name. If a person is away temporarily, his mail is sent to the department where he works. Mail is sent to students rather than to buildings.
mailing room for three years, said as far as he knew the mailing room had always been in Strong Park and there were three locations there. Its present
spot was acquired last summer. "We're efficient," said Oelschlager.
"But we have a lot of fun," added another employee.
"I THINK there is a misconception about what goes on out here," we ask. "What most people think. We have a lot of programs related to ecology."
"There is more competition and our people have had to go out and learn the basics of programs. They evidently have because we probably have more experience."
He said the money was still there to get, but the people who wanted research grants had to go out and work hard to get them.
Ross Copeland, associate director of the Child Research Center, said the department of research had not been hurt too much.
**ME BUREAU of Child**
field is very tight and competitive. There are many more institutions now than there were
before.
He said one reason for their continued success was that they were engaged in many long range projects funded over a period of years.
He said the bureau started in 1958 with $30,000 and four researchers and now has more than 400 researchers or researchers on three campuses;
but the state would rather it be bought. Thus, there was no money for the purchase of the equipment.
According to Copeland, when federal grants begin decreasing there was a need for a more diverse and flexible program. Solutions get tighter on how the money is spent along with this.
He said many times the federal grants would leave provisions in their grants that the money was to be used for renting equipment
He also said sometimes the federal government would apportion money but would not have enough money to fund a federal government was more interested in the research applied just pure, theoretical research.
He said one of the reasons that KU research programs were not suffering as much as some others did was the lack of established and did good work.
"Once you establish a reputation it becomes easier to keep them when the money gets tighter. The blue chip organizations will make it through the hard times when some of the others won't," he said.
He said in the field of child of the neediest, necessarily fewer dollars, but there were more people competing for the dollars and more money.
The computer science department has been affected by the cuts in other areas as well in the area of computer science.
ACCORDING to Paul J. Wolfe, director of the computer center, many grants that go to the other faculty may be awarded for the purchase of computer time and when they get those cut down then if affected the computer center receives $500.
"The first concern when you get a grant is that you have one and another, the second is whether you will have he equipment to do the job. Then I anything needs to be cut, the first is one of the first so," he said.
Most of the computer grants were made when the center contracted to do work for a specific project. This usually involved a project that would provide computers and improve the use of the computer.
"The competition for the funds that the federal agencies have is now stronger and there are fewer funds available." Wolfe said.
HE SAID to get projects at the center, new and better ideas had to be created. He trend to fund cooperative research programs where two or three different centers could in their particular area of expertise
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