The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 23, 1982
Vol. 92 No. 139 USPS 650-640
Vol. 92, No. 139 USPS 650-640
Local legislators give mixed reviews to budget
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
The $750 million Board of Regents budget bill now awaiting Gov. John Carlin's approval does not satisfy local state legislators, who had pushed for more money for the University of Georgia in light of the state's current financial problems, they said, the Regents came out fairly well.
Mike Swenson, Carlin's assistant press secretary, said the governor would sign the bill this morning. It allocates a total of $153 million to KU.
"I think the universities were treated fairly in light of the economic problems of the state," said State Rep. John Sohbue, D-Lawrence, yesterdays. "We are now forward-looking as we might have been."
But Solbach said he was especially pleased with the approval of a $900,000 faculty salary enrichment fund for faculty in the high-demand
disciplines of engineering, computer science and business.
business.
It provides about $270,000 for KU faculty.
THE FUND is in addition to a 7.5 percent faculty salary increase, or $3.4 million for KU. The Regents had asked for a 13 percent increase. The budget also includes a 6 percent increase in operating expenses, cut from the Regents request of 11 percent; an 8.75 percent increase in student salaries; and 60 percent tuition waivers for graduate teachers.
The Regents had requested a 10 percent increase in student salaries and a 100 percent raise for all employees.
"It's a little bit of progress over last session, considering the severe constraints on the overall budget," Slate Rep. Jess Branson, D-Connecticut said. "I am pleased, I am pleased we came out as well as we did."
Last year, faculty received a salary increase of 7 percent.
"It could have been a lot worse, particularly since we didn't get a severance tax passed," Branson said.
A MINERALS severance tax on state production of oil and gas was defeated in the Senate this year, and further efforts to pass a bill to allow the government to convene next week are not expected to succeed.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said severance tax opponents were trying to cut money from every area of the state budget to meet the growing deficit, estimated $103 million in revenues from the tax.
She said she was not satisfied with the Regents budget passed by the Legislature.
"I suppose it's about what I expected, but I'm not real happy with it," she said.
"The representatives in the House from Wichita, Emporia, Manhattan and Lawrence divided up the work and tried to amend it. I think that was an indication that we thought it wasn't
Both Chariton and Branson made several amendments on the House floor to add more money to the budget, but they all failed.
STATE SEN. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence,
say money that the state poured into Washburn
"Given those factors, we did better than last year," she said. "It's about what I expected—the Legislature approved the same dollars as the governor recommended."
University and community colleges could have been used to improve the Regents system.
The fund is estimated to add about 0.5 percent to salaries of faculty in the designated areas.
But Eldredge said she was pleasantly surprised at the enrichment fund's approval, although it probably wouldn't go very far toward keeping money in the sector for higher paying jobs in the private sector.
But KU faculty and some legislators criticized the decision, made by the House-Senate conference committee, to specify only faculty in engineering, computer science and business for
"I think that the fund be earnarmed for the three disciplines is a serious mistake," Eldridge said. "Next year, the medical schools and the lawyers can come in and request more money for their faculty who are leaving. It sets a terrible precedent."
SHE FAVORED allowing each university to distribute its enrichment money however it wished.
Branson also said she preferred giving each school the flexibility to suit its own criteria for the standard.
"I have quallies about it. It's going to cause problems," she said. "Perhaps there will be some adjustment next year—it could be changed."
"I think it's going to be very tight next year," Eldridge said. "We're going to have to dip into our ending balances. Next year is when we'll really feel the impact of federal budget cuts."
Faculty flight will increase morale will dip, Regents say
“If we don’t get a severance tax, it’s going to cost us a bit of a daunting dangerously low into our reserves now.”
Branson, said university faculty might not receive any enrichment money next year if state revenues continued to go down.
By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter
In the past few years, groups employed by the University of Kansas have complained about
brief萨拉斯的.
KU has fought the Kansas Legislature for the past few years over the amount faculty members at KU should make.
Some argue that faculty members are underpaid. Some argue that administrators are
And for years, the Legislature has been content to give KU faculty salary increases below the inflation rate and below the increases other public employees of the state receive.
A list of salaries begins on page 5
KU has not accepted it well. Neither has the Kansas Board of Regents.
In 1891, the Regents requested a 10 percent increase, and the Legislature gave 7 percent.
THE FIGHT to raise faculty salaries has heated up in the last two years, with the Regents requesting much higher raises than the Leisulature has considered giving.
This year, the Regents requested a 13 percent increase and the Legislature approved a 7.5 percent increase April 18. Governor John Carlin is expected to sign the 1983 budget into law today
The current year's budget was approved in April 1981. This is a snapshot of KU's latest budget, which was posted in May 2013.
figures may not seem up-to-date. Some em-
ployees may move to other positions,
may some give bad news.
And most of the salaries listed are only base figures. Some employees may make more than is listed here by teaching in the summer or winning grants or fellowships. Some of the salaries are based on nine months, and some are for 12 months, such as administrators' salaries.
INCLUDED TODAY are the salaries of the unclassified employees of the University of Kansas from June 1981 to June 1982. These are the administrator's and faculty salaries.
Monday, the Kansan will publish the salaries of classified employees.
The Regents are about to send to the Legislature their annual issue paper that outlines the current status of faculty salaries and fringe benefits for Regents schools' faculty.
The paper says the University will deteriorate unless faculty members are paid what their付酬.
The best will leave the University, it says, and those who stay might have low morale. The paper says that even if KU professors receive comparable merit salary increases for the next quarter, they may have to be raised an extra 4.2 percent in the years 1984-86 to meet those of peer institutions.
THE PEER institutions used by the Regents include those that are similar to Regents schools in the academic programs they offer and those in states comparable to Kansas in terms of state population, per capita personal income and economic resources.
See BUDGET page 7
JON HARDESTY/Kansan Staff
Larry Brow (right), Lawrence special student, prepares to strike a blow to Richard Borton of Lawrence during a demonstration of medieval culture yesterday in front of Flint Hall. The event was sponsored by the Society for Creative Anchronism Inc.
Makeshift GSL forms now available
Because of proposed federal budget cuts in student financial aid for next year, students have not been able to apply for Guaranteed Student Loans.
However, KU's office of financial aid has created a special form so students will be able to complete applications for the GLSs for the 1982-83 school year, financial aid officials said yesterday. Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said students had not been able to complete applications yet for the GLSs because the federal budget has not yet been decided.
"We have been telling thousands of students to come back later," he said.
He said the form would be adaptable to recognize the new federal regulations would be
WEINBERG SAID the financial aid office designed the form for on-campus use only, so students would be able to apply before the end of the semester.
"To delay any further is not fair to the students," he said.
The option, he said, is to sit and wait, which would be hard on both the students and the faculty.
With the preliminary applications, Weinberg will be able to handle 90 percent of the paperwork.
After the student and his parents have completed the application, a personal interview with the employer will be scheduled.
applications and schedule interviews as long as students were in Lawrence.
"By accepting applications, we will process them up to the point of approving them," he said. When the new regulations arrive from Washington, D.C., Weinberg said, the office immediately will be able to sign and post the loans and send them to the lending institutions.
Weinberg said that during the interview, the counselor should be able to give the student "an educated guess" of the student's chances of receiving the loan.
President Reagan's proposed budget would cut student financial aid by 50 percent.
HESAID that the office would continue to take
Weinberg said that students who had applied for on-campus aid-such as National Direct Student Loans, College Work-Study, Support for Students and University Scholarships and Health Profession Loans-should wait until they received their award letters in May before applying for GLSs.
Application forms are available today
Enrichment fund bypasses administration, council says
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
University Council yesterday passed a resolution opposing the Kansas Legislature's recent allocations of salary enrichment funds to university computer science, engineering and business.
"The thing that disturbs me about it is that it's a direct bypass of the administration," said Ernest Angino, council member and professor of geology and civil engineering.
The resolution stated, "The Legislature has recognized the need for salary enrichment funds, but in concentrating on three particular disciplines, it does not follow its tradition of leaving allocation decisions to the Regents and institutions concerned."
"That precedent, I think, is a very, very dangerous one."
ON APRIL 8, the Legislature designated $270,000 in faculty salary enrichment to disciplines where KU's faculty were leaving for higher-paying jobs in private industry.
In other business, the council passed the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee's
One charge was to suggest regulations for the fairness and appropriateness of take-home final examinations and papers, but the committee would be unfair to faculty members.
"We felt it was infringing on professors' academic freedom to tell them what kind of exam to give," said Joseph Wyrick, committee chair, and associate professor of occupational therapy.
The report reviewed the committee's charges and responses.
DURING DISCUSSIONS on the fairness of take-home exams, the students on the committee suggested that students may not really like to take them.
After further studying this issue, the committee will send its findings about students' attitudes on take-home exams to faculty members, Wyrick said.
But the committee made another discovery about take-home exams.
"Our task may be an informational task," she said.
The council also passed an annual report from the Committee on Organization and Admissions.
Weather
See COUNCIL page 7
Today will be sunny and warmer, access
the National Weather Service in Tampa
The high will be in the upper 60s, with winds from the south at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be fair, with the low in the mid-40s.
Tomorrow will be fair and warm, with the high expected to be in the mid- 70s.
Kansan fills two positions
The Kansan Board yesterday chose the business manager for the summer session
The board also extended the deadline for summer session editor and fall business manager.
Application forms are available in the
Senate Student Senate, 105B Kansas Union; in
Sharon, Bodin, Lawrence freshman, was selected for summer business manager.
the office of student organizations and activities. 220 Strong Hall; and in 250 Finl Hall.
Senior George, El Dorado junior, was selected fall editor.
Applications for fall news staff positions
in 200 Flint today. They are
at a 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Beauty of campus landscape result of nature, human work
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
Mother Nature's obvious contributions aside, the scenic landscape at the University of Kansas is a prime example.
"The campus would look like a terrible jungle and weed patch if caring people didn't maintain it," Alton Thomas, campus landscape architect and site planer, said recently.
"The facilities operations people take pride in their work."
A crew of 30 maintains KU's grounds
Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance, said the spring was normally the busiest time of the year for his crew.
*'We have Commencement to get ready for.*
*'If we had a rough winter, we have a lot of cleaning up on it.*
Winter revisited the KU campus earlier this week and frosted some of the foliage.
Translated into monetary terms, Mathes said, one ton of fertilizer costs from $150 to $180.
"From what we could tell, there was a little bit of damage to the foliage, but the lilacs and flowers like that appear to be OK," he said.
Maintaining the campus landscape also included the not-too-small task of spreading from 10 to 30 tons of fertilizer a year on campus lawns, Mathes said.
The spring planting continued despite winter's respearance. Mathes said his crew had seven workers in the garden.
"The money for landscape maintenance comes from a general operating expense for
facilities operations to use for all the buildings," he said.
Mathes said the amount of the entire operating fund was about $1 million, but he could not say exactly how much was used for landscape maintenance.
Thomas said the landscaping of the KU campus was the result of cooperation between Mother Nature and the people who financially support beautification efforts—the administration, alumni and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"We have had a high-ranking school academically, as well as a beautiful campus. It springs from the power source, administration and the Board of Regents," Thomas said.
Thomas said the administrations he had worked under in the past had demonstrated varying degrees of disobedience.
"When I came here, I was inspired by the interest Chancellor Malest had in the beautification."
THOMAS SAID Chancellor Deane Mallet was responsible for the planting of the crabbable plants.
Seventy-five percent of the crabapple trees on campus were financed by Malot, he said.
Other chancellors, such as Franklin Murphy,
were interested in other aspects of the campus.
"Chancellor Murphy was interested in fountains and he financed some of them, including the one in the Murphy Hall courtyard." Thomas said.
Alumni also support campus beautification.
I have been supportive because as See LANDSCAPE page 7