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KANSAN
JORN HANXAMMER/Kansan Staff
Thursday, April 29, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 143 UPSS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Fritz Menniger, senior, attempts to juggle in the rain yesterday in front of Flint Finn. Menniger is majoring in exercise science.
Pay increase still undecided by committee
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—A House-Senate conference committee haggled over a classified employee salary increase in night, but was unable to reach the agreement between increases of 7.5 percent and 7.5 percent.
The committee agreed to decide the final recommendation today, after the Legislature extended the 1982 session another day.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee told the Senate panel that they would settle for an increase of no less than 7.5 percent of their budget, which includes KU's classified employees.
The 7.75 percent would be split between a 6.5 percent cost-of-living increase and a 1.25 percent merit increase.
Classified employees are all University employees, except members of the faculty and administration.
But the Senate Ways and Means Committee members, led by Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, were equally insistent that they would go no higher than 7.5 percent. Hess said the Senate was flexible on the 7.5 percent between cost-of-living and merit increases.
"I hear all the time that classified employees are at the bottom of the list, but that just isn't true." Hess said.
The Senate originally recommended a 7 percent increase, with 5.75 percent for cost-of-living raises and 1.25 percent for merit.
in what Houses the Speaker Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, yesterday amended the proposal to a 6 percent cost-of-living increase and a 2.5 percent merit boost for a total of 8.5 percent.
The amendment represented an increase of about 84 million, according to the legislative body.
He said the average state employee made about $14,000 each year.
numerous employees have said that their salaries are to low compared to faculty
research staff:
"Employees at universities who are getting much lower than the faculty won't be getting their fair share," Lady said.
salary increases.
But Hess that figures from the research staff showed that since 1971 classified salary increases have been slightly higher than faculty salary increases.
He said the average faculty salary increase last year was 175 percent and the average faculty salary increase for new faculty was 209 percent.
However, classified employees said their salaries were not comparable to the faculty
Classified employees are guaranteed only a
see C1 CLASSIFIED page 5
It will be mostly cloudy and cool today with a high temperature of 60 and winds from the east at 5 to 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service
Skies will be partly cloudy tonight with lows in the mid-48s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with highs in the mid-50s. The chance of thunderstorms of showers and thunderstorms.
1983 budget OK'd by Student Senate
By ANN LOWRY
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate passed the fiscal 1983 budget again last night, this time for a total allocation of $60,760.
The Senate had passed a previous allocation for about $72,000, based on a Senate subcommittee's recommendation, but David Adkins, student body president, vetoed that.
The second budget to be approved followed recommendations that Adkins wrote for cuts to get the budget closer to the $25,000 allocated to student groups by the Senate Code.
"I realize cuts had to be made somewhere," David Zimmerman, finance and auditing committee and budgets subcommittee cochairman, said. "I just wish the initiative had
The cums came from a number of student group budgets, but the bulk of the cuts, about $10,000, came from the requests of KJHJ Radio, the Services and Hilltop Child Development Center.
come from the Senate and not the executives. It's been dictated by the executives for too long."
Loren Busby, holdover senator and so... finance and auditing chairman, said. "That's what happens when you have a bunch of minions who follow what one person says without question."
The Senate later voted to allocate $1,650 to KJHP
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Hillip's监察所.
The rationale for cutting Hilton and WTCS, the said, was that they served specialized groups.
In his amended budget, Adkins also recommended funding cuts for international student
KU administrator sees student attitude change
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
Students' attitudes toward themselves and society have become more healthy and realistic since 1970, the year of the Kent State and Jackson State campus uprisings, and the year the Kansas Union burned, David Amstrup's chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday.
Students in the 1960s had a negative attitude, he said.
"I really worry about the mental health of students who find little to be happy about and demonstrate very little in the way of a sense of humor," he said.
Ambler began working in the administration of student life at Kent State in
The University of Kansas was a different type of university when Amber came here in 1977, he said, with different students and more tradition.
But the difference was deeper than just a change of campus. Amber said. Students' attitudes in general had changed.
Some KS student readers agree
I think the trend has been moving from
acting against the system toward acting
student senator and
Prince William schoolboy.
Ambler said he thought there was a paradox between students' words and their realities (1900) 98.
"they talked a good game," he said. "They
nailed a different one."
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, although students discussed the importance of love and caring, many were hostile toward others.
Students now are more able to treat people, Ambler said.
"And yet, I found a lot of them to be a lot less caring than the previous generation or this one, especially if they met with people whose values were different from their own."
"I think it's the method of expression that has changed."
But Cramer said, "I don't think their feelings toward each other have changed.
Amler said a childhood market by a combination of post-war affection and mass communications might have been responsible for a 60% student's inability to communicate.
Hours of watching TV turned children into spectators rather than participants in life, he
I think they came to college with a lack of
See ATTTTUDES page 5
At 92, a walking history book
Russian veteran, Vlada, recalls wars
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
The suitcase.
It is a peculiar size, somewhere between small and medium, and is made out of tightly matted
It shows signs of wear. A corner joint has been replaced and one seam is tearing. It is scuffed, and the toe is dislaced.
"It was the first thing American that I ever owned," Vladimir Mochanyuk explained.
"I BOUGHT it when I was in Poland fighting for the Russian army in the first World War. It follow me through the first World War and I went to Yugoslavia, and I came with it to Lawrence."
Like his suitcase, Vlada, his nickname, shows some signs of age.
At 92, he has to use a magnifying glass to read
and he can maintain with his hearing aid,
for his hearing.
"There just aren't many people left like him who witnessed the first World War and the Civil War in Russia. He's like a walking history book," she said.
Vilma moved to Lawrence from Yugoslavia five years ago to live with his daughter, Galina Kuzmanovic, who is a library associate in Watson Library's Slavic department.
WatsonLAB, "He was all alone," Galina said. "None of his friends or relatives in Yugoslavia were still alive."
Vlada served in the Russian army during World War II, as a captain. He had three cannions captured.
He said toward the end of the war with the Germans in 1917, his three cannons were shooting 2.500 rounds a day.
"IT DAMAGED my hearing badly," he said. "You were supposed to open your mouth when the cannon fired, then it doesn't hurt your ears."
could not open my mouth every time the cannon
would hit him. It is not possible," he said,
but it has hit him.
Vade demonstrated the situation of having to open his mouth while fighting, then laughed at its
The war left a lasting impression on vinaa.
"My daughter asks me why I talk about the
The war left a lasting impression on Vinda.
"Once a man directly in front of me, a
Coxassie was hit by gun fire first," she said,
explaining the guns.
war so much," he said, leaning forward, his clenched fists resting on his knees.
"It was so deep. I saw all the butching and killing ground one, and that impressed me so much," he said.
He said that he remembered one time watching a nicely dressed, well-disciplined regiment of 4,000 officers and soldiers go into battle. After training, only one officer and maybe 100 soldiers survive.
HIS BLUE EYES reddened at the edges, but tears did not come.
year but not quite.
"After seeing that and other similar scenes, I hate the military service and I hate war," he said.
Vlada said there were many times during the war that he was almost killed.
Revolution
'After seeing that and other similar scenes, I hate the military and I hate war.'
—Vladimir Movchanyuk, Survivor of World War I and Russian
the sign of the cross, he exclaimed, "Thank God!"
"He saved my life," Vlada said, and motioning
"You know," he said, "all my life I've followed the American words 'In God we trust.'
"Whenever I was in danger, particularly when I was threatened that God would help me and save me."
After the Russians withdrew from World War II, Khalda said there was a civil war to contend with.
He said that the Red Army, led by people such as Lenin and Trotsky, was fighting against the White Army, which supported the former Russian government under the Czar.
"I DID NOT know whether to join the White Army or not," Viral said, shrugging. "I didn't want to fight in either. I didn't believe the White Army was going to win." We knew I knew they were in a poor position politically."
We were in poor condition.
He said he went home to Kursk in South
Russia, but the Red Army had gained control there.
"The Reds forced me to register in their army. They divided the forces in Kursk into four groups, and the first three were sent immediately to fight. I was in the fourth group.
"Not one of those men who went returned from the fighting in one piece. They were either wounded or killed," Vlada said, in a disgusted tone of voice.
He leaned back then in his chair and smiled.
"Before I had to go off and right, a friend or mine gave me a job as a physical education instructor in a middle school, and I was excused from duty.
"I was always a good sportman," he said, squinting as one abmoucher and getting up, demowning the other. "I am very hard."
"I DO MY exercises every day for a half hour in the morning," he said. "Resides that, if the weather is cooperative, I walk for at least an hour every day."
Vlada said that in the United States he had a very comfortable life.
"never lived my life in better conditions than I live now in the United States. I never had fresh air, clean water and fresh food."
He said that as an officer before World War I, he had eaten well, but he said he had mainly eaten brown bread, cheese, borsch, a cabbage and beef soup, and kasha, a cooked cereal.
"Even when I was a young officer stationed in the Far East, my life wasn't as comfortable as it
and be船上, taking the ship. Looking up at the ceiling, Vlada said that when he and his wife left Russia in the fall of 1920, they went on a boat across the Black Sea to Turkey.
...when we reached Constantinople (now Istanbul), the Turkish government quarantined us, and so we had to spend 15 days on the island. And when we left the island, so I've done without food for you," Vlada said.
But after three months of teaching, the White Army came close to Kurak, and he joined it in its headquarters.
WHEN THE WHITE Army lost the civil war, Vlada said, if I fed south to the Black Sea and then went on boats and ships to Turkey, where they found a more remote and less guarded country more than 120,000 refugees. The rule was that
See VLADA page 5
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A former officer in the Cear's army during the Russian Revolution in the early 1890s, 1890-xm-04
Vladimir Mcvanchyan new resides in Lawrence with his daughter.