KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 15, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 133 USPS 650-640
KU classified employees want salary increase
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
KU classified employees, upset by a proposed cut in their salary increase for next year, want legislators to consider increasing a state commuted 7 percent salary increase for state employees.
Jan O'Neil, president-elect of the Classified Senate, said yesterday that the Senate Ways and Means Committee's recommendation would not alter the status of its Classified employees the raises they deserved.
"It is unfair to wait on classified employee salaries until the end of the year," she said. "We always seem to take the brunt of the talk. They say. If they don't, then you should, take it from state employees, it seems to me."
Classified employees, which are generally all University employees except members of the faculty and the administration, have their wages guaranteed by employers at the rate of each legislative session.
Their salaries are part of the last appropriations bill of the session, called the emphis appropriations bill.
The 7 percent increase recommended to the House of Representatives by the Senate last Friday would be divided between a 5.75 percent increase and an increase and a 1.25 percent merit increase.
The House will vote on the omnibus bill when the legislature returns April 27.
The Board of Regents had requested a 10 percent increase for classified salaries, and Gov John Carlin's recommendation was 8.75 percent.
Carlin recommended a 7.5 percent cost-of-
fruit plus an additional 1.25 percent
for market incentives.
But O'Neill said that because of a complicated system of figuring merit increases that varies in each department, some employees might receive only a cost-of-living increase, while some might receive more than the average merit increase.
Merit increases are determined by each department and are based on staff evaluations of employees and how long they have been employed at the University.
O'Neill said that the current Classified Senate president, Gail Hamilton, wrote a letter to several legislative leaders April 9.
In the letter, Hamilton told them the 1.25 percent would not be enough to fund merit increases for all KU classified employees.
"We need a 3 percent increase to adequately fund merit," Hamilton said.
But Hamilton asked in the letter that if the Legislature planned to fund an increase of only 7 percent, that it all be allocated in a cost-of-living increase.
"O'Neill said, 'If it's all in cost-of-living, all emperors are assured they'll get a certain price.'"
She said that their proposal would involve the same amount of money the committee recommended, but it would eliminate the merit increase system.
But she said that "it'll probably go over like a lead balloon."
Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and chairman of the Senate Mental Means Committee, told the House on Friday that he would not vote for Thursday.
a higher increase, because the cost of living was predicted to go down.
"The odds are the inflation rate for 1982 could be well below 5 percent," he said. "It's time for this body to change our mind-set. We're not living in a time of double-digit inflation.
"The amount we've given here is extremely realistic. We've had to bite the bullet."
O'Neill said classified salary increases have been way behind inflation in the past.
"Let's worry about the last 10 years that we've been so far behind that it wasn't funny," she said. "We've lost power because the cost-of living has increased far more than salaries."
O'Neill said that Classified Senate representatives planned to talk to members of the administration to find out how classified the administration had indicated if the 7 percent increase were approved.
increase were approved.
Hamilton said she did not know whether all classified employees would get the merit raises they were in line for.
"I don't think anyone knows the answer to that yet. " It's kind of a wait-and-see situation."
Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said she is aware that the state was trying to keep state salary increase as low as 10 percent.
"What's happened is what I suspected would happen," she said. "They wait until the end of the session and then find out they don't have enough money.
"it's not fair to save state employees until the end."
Charlson said that a statement Hess made in early March implied that classified salaries would be cut to help finance a faculty salary fund, but she also said this was foolish.
"That was a very unfortunate statement that Hess made early in the session," she said. Classified employee salaries at KU are voted with the president, and shouldn't be connected with faculty salaries."
MARK McDONALD/Kansan Staff
A student walks alone on a stretch of sidewalk in front of Fraser Hall, taking advantage of yesterday's sunny weather.
Kansas Appeals Court travels to KU to hear arguments in local rape case
By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporter
The Kansas Court of Appeals yesterday traveled to the KU School of Law to hear an appeal by the Douglas County district attorney's office. Because evidence the state wants to use in a local rape case,
Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, appealed a decision made last fall to suppress evidence, a set of 10 KU keys, in the Sherman Galloway rape case.
Galloway, 21, was convicted of rape and aggravated sodomy last December after he forced a former KU student to perform oral sex and then raped her at knifepoint last July. The 25-year-old woman was jogging along Memorial Drive behind Snow Hall.
Galloway is now serving a 30-year to life sentence for the crime.
The three appeal judges, Chief Judge J. Richard Foth and judges Corwin C. Spencer and Sherman A. Parks, also heard six other appeal cases.
The Court of Appeals occasionally comes to the School of Law for learning experience for law students. Malone says
THE DISTRICT attorney's office wants to try Galloway for another rape of a KU graduate student which occurred last May.
"If the Court of Appeals overturns the trial court's decision, then we'll be in a position to go on with the second rape trial," Malone said.
The disputed set of KU keys linked Galloway to the May rage after they were taken during a search of his evidence for evidence. A search of his evidence for evidence in the July rage on Memorial Drive.
in the case appealed Paddock's ruling to the Court of Appeals. The court and about 25 spectators listened yesterday to the state's and defendant's arguments.
Douglas County District Judge James W. Paddock decided that the keys were taken illegally and that evidence had been obtained from Glowayo. He said the detectives did not have probable cause to take the keys.
Greg Hammel, assistant district attorney representing the state, told the judges that during the course of the investigation of the July rape, a KU police officer, KU detective and Lawrence detective took a warrant to search Galloway's residence. The search warrant listed a three-to four-inch long knife and a sleeveless tank too shirt.
While the officers were searching the residence, two officers saw a 10 KIU keys, and they took the keys with them.
HAMMEL ARGUED that the detectives had
probable cause to think that Galloway and his wife did not legally have possession of the keys since they thought neither Galloway nor his wife was employed by or attended KU.
"Someone with no connection with KU shouldn't have KU keyes," Hammel said.
Jeff Heeb, Galloy's court appointed lawyer, said the keys were illegally seized by the detectives did not know for sure whether the Galloywars were employed or enrolled at KU.
"They know nothing was unusual about finding KU Jews in Lawrance, Mr. "Hebe said.
After taking the keys, the detectives found out that they belonged to the May rape victim. She
Heeb pointed out that the keys were not reported missing at the time of the rape.
With the keys and some other articles as evidence in the May rape, the district attorney's office amended its charges against Galloway to two counts of rape, four counts of aggravated sodomy, one count of kidnapping and one count of aggravated robbery.
After Paddock ruled to suppress the evidence, the two cases were separated and Galloway was tried only for the July rape on charges of aggravated sodomy and rape.
The May rape case is pending the Court of Appeals decision about the suppressed evidence.
The Court of Appeals will on the case after deliberations.
Student Senate budget sent for cuts
Staff Reporter
By ANN LOWRY
The Student Senate's fiscal 1983 budget will go back to the Senate to be trimmed down again, David Adkins, student body president, said yesterday.
proved a $72,000 budget using its own set of criteria to decide which groups to fund.
Adkins said he vetoed the budget, which the Senate passed because it allocated more money than the Senate.
"The easy thing to do is give money to
them," he said. "But that might not be the
things to do."
The Senate's budget subcommittee had ap-
"I'm more inclined to perhaps weed out some of the groups serving a more narrow group so that these serving a broader group will flourish and attract a larger number of students."
But Adkins said the subcommittee was certain that it did not feel comfortable deciding up to the whole Senate.
The senators, however, did not make the necessary cuts.
"The Senate expected something it could rubber stamp." Arkin said.
rubber stamp," Adkins said.
He said the subcommittee was justified in
that he was the chair of the trustees.
"I'M NOT SURE the Senate was willing to take that on." he said.
Some senators favored taking the extra money out of the Senate's unallocated account, a savings account of about $74,000. But Adkins said that solution was unacceptable.
The Senate's $2,000 allocation limit for student groups was determined by the revenue
code established last year, based on $1.42 from each student's activity fee, Adkins said.
"To go beyond that $1.42 is unfair to revenue code groups that don't have the opportunity to profit."
He said that the $74,000 should not be regarded as students' money but as a Senate account.
"That is a working capital account for the Senate to spend," Adkins said. "In the past that's been used for projects to benefit large numbers of students."
Past expenditures from that account have included a sprinkler system for the practice fields at 23rd and Iowa streets and lighting for the University tennis courts.
Adkins said he had tentative plans to present to the Senate concerning where that money would be.
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KU campus buildings cool off
By LISA GUTIERREZ
Staff Reporter
Cool air began flowing into many campus buildings this week as facilities operations personnel switched the University from its heating systems to its air conditioning systems.
"April 15 is the date we set to put the air conditioning on and take the steam off." Robert Porter, associate director of the physical plant, said yesterday.
"Eighty percent of the major buildings on the immediate campus have air conditioning on," said Don Beerms, assistant director of electricity and refrigeration.
The major buildings included Haworth, Snow, Dyche and Jollie halls, Watkins Memorial Hospital and the Computer Center.
Porter said the transfer from heat to air conditioning actually began Monday, when facilities operations started turning heat off, filling water towers and draining hot water
"October 15 is the day we'll return to heat."
"And the health center is number one," Porter said. "Buildings that have machines, such as computers, and animal research, are a close second."
Hospital and the Computer Center Porter called these buildings "critical" and said they were among the first of the 150 campus buildings to receive cool air on Monday.
"Most computer environments are run between 72 and 80 degrees and after that, the computers shut themselves off."
Temperatures in campus buildings remain at 78 degrees in the summer and 68 degrees in the winter. Beems said.
along, we would have to change our pans.
In that case, Porter said it would be 48 hours before the heat could be restored to most of the campus buildings.
"We were ready to come on with air conditioning a week and a half ago," he said. "We turned warm off a week ago Friday, but had to turn it back on the following Monday."
Unexpected cold weather postponed the switch to air conditioning, Porter said.
Beaams said, "Of course, if a blizzard comes alone, we would have to change our plans."
"Some buildings, like Murphy, take 24 hours," because you have to get temperatures moderate.
"By 4:30 this Friday night, all the buildings should be on, if nothing goes awry."
Cold weather and equipment failure notwithstanding, Porter estimated that the entire process of transferring to air conditioning would take 240 man-hours.
"The chiller and the heat plant is in Murphy. So whatever we do to Murphy, Sumneral goes off."
He said that Murphy and Summerfield fells were heated and cooled by the same system.
Fifteen facilities operations workers are involved in the process, Beams said.
Weather
The high temperature will be 80 to 85
degrees, and the low will be in the 50s.
Today will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms and southwest winds at 10 to 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and cooler with the high temperature in the morning. In the evening end will be in the 60s to low 70s, and the low will be 40 degrees.
Templin elections disputed; charges against director filed
Staff Reporter
By JAN BOUTTE
A candidate for president of Tempelm Hall filed a complaint against the hall's resident director with KU police yesterday after the director refused to approve his campaign literature.
The action came at the end of the campaign, with elections beginning tonight.
Mark Fusaro, Topeka fresman who is running for hall president, said that when he presented his campaign flyers to the resident director, Scott Corbett—a standard procedure for any materials to be posted or distributed in the halls—Corbett took the flyers.
will be temporarily assumed possession of said materials until after the
"I'm thinking about suing him and KU housing."
"It comes down to principles—whether I have the right to carry on a free election," Fusaro
The police complaint was filed with the
Fusaro said, however, he saw the action as an infringement on his freedom of speech.
Corbett said he refused permission for the flyers to be distributed in order to insure a fair election and protect the candidates from possible civil suits resulting from slander.
Douglas County District Attorney's office which
will defend him on a case to investigate the case.
But Corbett said police involvement was unnecessary.
"I ALSO THINK the district attorney's going to laugh him out of his office," he said.
Corbett said that after the KU police left, he returned the flyers to Fusaro and apologized publicly, but he refused to approve the flyers for distribution.
Fusaro was placed on probation with the residence hall after his campaign flyers were distributed to the residents in their rooms later in the day.
Door-to-door solicitation is prohibited in the University residence halls.
Corbett said that he acted out of his responsibility to keep the elections fair by preventing door-to-door solicitation, and by protecting the mailboxes of the residents.
Corbett said that the hall was not allowed to put materials not directly addressed to the residents in the mailboxes, and that what Fusaro wanted done with his campaign flyers.
Corbett also said that he had talked to both candidates about campaign standards earlier this week, after he felt that the mudslinging was getting out of hand.
"Mr. Fusaro and I reached a verbal agreement that he would cease and desist using
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