The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 30, 1982 Vol.92, No.122 USPS 650-640
A KU student's left rear tire flew off her car yesterday morning about 11:45 in front of Allen Field House. The student said she had the tire replaced Sunday and it appeared the lug nuts were not tightened. The tire vibrated loose and punctured the gas tank. Damage was estimated at more than $300.
Malfunction drys KU campus
Staff Reporter
The incident cut water of in Snow, Fraser and Bailey halls and left the upper floors of Wescoe Hall, the Kansas Union and Strong Hall without water.
BY LISA GUTIERREZ
A malfunctioning gauge at the Lawrence Water Treatment Plant yesterday allowed water in two tanks that supply the University of Kansas to drop heavy ice, leaving off water in many campus buildings.
ROBERT LEACH, the city's assistant utility director, According to our gauges, we had no gas leak.
"The situation affects the entire campus," Robert Porter, associate director of physical education.
"Our operator would have opened more pumps at the plant if he'd known it was needed."
rorter said that normal water service was expected to be restored sometime early this
hold one million and 1.3 million gallons of water respectively. They are normally maintained at
But the water level in the tanks yesterday dropped to around two feet, according to Roger Coffey, director of utilities for the city.
Salary fund future doubtful
THE AUXILIARY water source, however, did not supply enough water to maintain the normal 100 pounds-per-square-inch pressure because the tubing permeates through an eight-inch instead of a 14-inch pipe.
"We can go down to five or six feet and not have any problems," Coffey said. "But I think it got down to almost one and a half feet."
Facilities operations officials notified the city of the water-pressure loss shortly after 1 p.m. and switched to an auxiliary water line from a tank near Sunset and Stratford roads.
The two tanks, near 12th and Oread streets,
TOPEKA-A - $1.5 million faculty salary enrichment fund, which found slim support in the Kansas Senate, is finding even fewer friends in the House of Representatives.
By COLLEEN CACY
Late yesterday afternoon, city workers had difficulty pumping water into the Oread tanks because consumers were using water faster than they could pump it in.
Water pressure on campus dropped to 40 pounds because of the smaller pipes being used,
Staff Reporter
A House Ways and Means subcommittee voted yesterday to cut the fund from its Board of Regents budget recommendations, according to Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and a subcommittee member.
THE $1.5 MILLION would be designated for faculty in areas such as engineering and computer science, who are being lured into higher-paying jobs in the private sector.
The full Ways and Means Committee will take action on the recommendation today, and committee members predicted that it would not improve the fund.
Members of the subcommittee, which deals with funds for the Board of Regents, objected to the fund because the final faculty salary figures had not yet been approved.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, argued
against approving the fund for the same reason
twelve-10, 2018 two weeks ago, but he was
overruled.
Hess said he thought the Legislature should wait until the state budget was completed, and then if there was money left over, an enrichment fund could be approved.
THE FUND WOULD be allocated to the Board of Regents, which would hear requests from each Regents institution and then grant individual faculty members a salary bonus.
The Regents could distribute the money from the fund in any way it wished.
David Monical, legislative research analyst, said the $1.5 million would mean an extra .75 to 8 percent salary increase if split among all six Residents schools.
THE COMMITTEE voted to concur with most of the Senate recommendations on the Regents budget, including a 7.5 percent faculty salary
Sate Rep. Santford Duncan, R-Wichita, said he opposed the idea of an enrichment fund.
"We can't respond to the market this way. You can't have it both ways."
"I opposed to the philosophy of it," he said. "No one's ever going to worry about the English professors or the guy who taught me world history, and God knows, he needs a raise.
It also agreed with the Senate recommendation of an 8.75 percent student salary increase, although it added a recommendation that universities should use the extra money to hire more students, and not to raise student salaries.
increase and a 6 percent increase in operating expenses.
"There is a much bigger demand for student jobs than there is money available," John Conard, executive officer of the Board of Regents, told the committee.
"I think they should go ahead and get their
some. Some of that group is going to be hurting
him."
An amendment to delete student salaries from the Regents budget and include them at the end of the session in the recommendation for all state employee salaries failed.
IF STUDENT salaries were lumped with all employed salaryes they probably would not receive their basic wage.
"I don't think there's a fundamental com-
mon belief between students, who work part time
and those in the field," state senator
Jennifer Lewis said.
Hess has predicted that classified employees, whose salaries are figured at the end of the
FMC fire causes $100,000 damage
By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Renorter
The damage to FMC included the destroyed chemical, phosphorus pentasilide, the cost of chemicals used to extinguish the fire, clean up the site and install treatment costs, Joel Jacobs, plant manager, said.
A fire that began early last Thursday afternoon and burned for two days caused about $100,000 damage to an FMC Corp. warehouse in Montgomery County. The fire department officials said yesterday.
ABOUT 100 BARRELS of phosphorus pentasulfide were destroyed in the fire, Jacobs said. There were about 500 barrels of the chemical in the warehouse at the time.
FMC uses the chemical in the production of oil additives and insecticides.
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"The clean up includes washing the walls and ceiling, and there's about two inches of gop on
FMC employees also must check the electrical wiring in the building before the power can be used.
The fire department used about $30,000 worth of chemicals supplied by FMC to treat the fire. Estimates included 10 tons of carbon dioxide and 15 tons of soda ash, Lawrence Fire Chief Jim
Jacobs said. "We use soda ash in our operations here, so we went to the sloe and got it."
THE FIRE began last Thursday when several
dams filled with phosphorus pentasulfate broke
bore.
Firefighters and FMC employees thought they had extinguished the flames late Thursday night, but the fire reignited, and they returned to the early Friday morning and spent the day there.
The chemical ignites in its liquid stage when exposed to oxygen. The barrels of phosphorus that ignited had not yet solidified when the chemical ignited, Jacobs said.
Residents of up to 12 homes in the area of the plant had to be evacuated Thursday afternoon because of harmful smoke caused by the burning chemical.
Firefighters were able to stop the fire late
and were able to keep the 20,000-square-foot
pillows with carriage beds.
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Emotional social work causes burnout
Staff Reporter
Bv BARB EHLI
MEYER SAID she was spending a lot of time at the shelter, in addition to working at a full-time job at E & E Specialties inc., 80 I. Eth, 28th basement began taking the problems home with her.
Delores Meyer, former Women's Transitional Care Services volunteer advocate, gazes off pensively when she discusses the stresses that caused her to quit her work at the shelter for three years.
She sat quietly for a minute.
Richard Spano, director of the KU undergraduate social welfare program, said he could well describe the burnout feeling.
"I just couldn't do it any more," she said recently. Her voice grew softer.
"I kept seeing the same problems over and over again."
She would not say what the dreams were about. But she spoke of a woman who returned to her hometown, and she told me that.
the shelter she looked like she'd been nearly killed. I'd never seen her broken down before. She was always feisty. "Meyers said."
She speaks quietly and deliberately, and fingers the wrist of her faded jacket while
I started having dreams—some violent dreams. "I said that. 'That was it.'
DEALING WITH high levels of human suffering and government bureaucracy has left many social service workers burned out and outgrown out of a system they worked to improve.
could well understand, "It's a psychological and social phenomena that affects a worker. He's got no energy left and no spirit to continue," he said.
For example, Becky Meeks, another Women's Transitional Care Services advocate, went to work recently never suspecting she would be threatened with a knife.
Meeks had accompanied a client back to her home without the customary police escort, to help the woman gather some belongings before leaving, and pregnant—from a battering boyfriend.
He and his brother were waiting for the WTCS client when she returned home, said Meeks, whose advocate experience spanned three months.
"It was my own fault," Meeks said. "I didn't take a cop."
Her boyfriend took the client to a back room and beat her, while Meeks and the brother stayed in the living room. The brother had a knife.
SOON THE scared, shaking client came back and said she would stay at the house. Meeks said the client was bruised and had obviously been crying.
"He wasn't holding it, but it was sitting right by him and I knew what it was for." Meeks said.
"It was a setup." she said.
Meyer and Meeks have both been under high stress situations in their volunteer work. Meyer decided to wait WTCS, which does not make its address public in order to protect its clients, last
summer after working there for two years. Meeks has continued to work there.
Others in the social work field have found that it is not coping with human suffering that is hard, but rather the need for healing.
"All the social worker has to offer the client is themselves." said Sosno.
He said that the caseloads could be emotionally and physically draining.
"Carrying a caseload of 100 will do that more quickly than a caseload of 20," he said.
Endowment scholarships for 1982-83 up $1.1 million
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
HE SAID that some of the recent cuts in social work had made these larger caesareas a challenge.
"They don't have the energy to be creative with the client or to work up a novel solution," he said.
An additional $1.1 million in scholarship support will be available to KU students in 1982-83. Todd Seymour, president of the University Endowment Association, said yesterday.
Meeks said of her experience, "All of a sudden, I realized that I could have gotten myself and another person hurt, and that here I was trying to help people."
Seymour said next year the Endowment Association would be allocating $3.4 million in scholarships, awards and prizes for students on all three of the University's campuses.
Spano indicated that the problem of burnout did not discriminate against any particular group of people, but that hard workers were more susceptible.
"This is a 50 percent increase over the allocation made at this time last year," he said.
The source of the additional funds for scholarships is increased earnings on investments and new contributions, which have been worked for scholarship support, Seymour said.
"With the future of federal financial aid programs in serious jeopardy and the national economic outlook uncertain, it is reassuring for students to know that their future needs can be supported in part by private resources."
BECAUSE OF government budget cuts, the
become more evident. Seymour has
more evidence.
Some people think that an idealistic approach is not the realistic way to approach the problem.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, "We are extremely pleased with the response we have received from alumni and friends of the University to the financial needs of KU
"The more energy you're willing to put in, the more that can be absorbed," he said.
CATHY WANER, caseworker for the Big Brother-Big Sister program in Teopaea, said. "You need to appeal to what's really happening in your community," she added, ideology is that we should all be self-sufficient,
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The annual Endowment Association report to the financial aid office showed that gifts had provided assistance to about 2,500 students during the 1981-82 school year.
"The University is fortunate to have friends and supporters who are aware of the financial needs of students today and are committed to assisting well-qualified students complete their educational programs at the University of Kansas," he said.
The report said the average scholarship
PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS cannot and should not be expected to assume the role played by federal assistance programs, Budig said, but he said it was gratifying that the private sector had been responsive at the University.
funded by the Endowment Association this year was $792.46.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said about half of the full-time students on campus received some form of financial assistance.
Seymour said the increased funds would meet the needs of more students and provide
SCHOLARSHIP and award funds, he said, were generally set up by private donors to benefit students majoring in specific fields, participating in student and professional organizations or coming from designated geographical areas.
"We have made a special effort to inform alumni and friends of the needs for additional scholarship support for students, and the response has been excellent," Seymour said.
A total of $24,594,843 in financial aid was distributed to KU students through the financial aid office this year, Rogers said. Of this sum, about $17 million was a waived grant for graduate students. Other major sources of aid were federally supported work-study and entitlement programs.
- Financial need and academic success are primary considerations for most scholar-
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and windy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high will be from 55 to 60 and the low will be in the mid-38s. Winds will be westerly at 15 to 25 mph. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high temperature.
JOE BARTOS/Kenean Staff