The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, March 22, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 116 USPS 650-640
Senate OKs funds Enrichment fund narrowly approved, but KU prof says it won't be enough
By COLLEEN CACY
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A $1.5 million "enrichment fund" to boost faculty salaries will help, but won't be enough to stop the drain of faculty members to higher-paying jobs in private industry, Dave Shulenburg, KU Chapter president of the Association of University Professors, said yesterday.
The Kansas Senate narrowly approved the enrichment fund Friday in an amendment to the Board of Regents budget after two hours of debate. The vote on the amendment was 20-18.
"We're glad to get it," Shulenburger, associate professor of business, said. "But it's not enough to accomplish the initial purpose the Legislature intends to keep faculty from leaving the university."
The fund, proposed by State Sen. Geralard Karr, D-Emporia, would be placed under the control of the Board of Regents. Each Regents school has its own money for the areas where they need it most.
KAREA SARID the Senate could show its support for higher salaries by approving the fund.
"This will provide us an opportunity to put all our cards on the table, as far as faculty salaries are concerned," he said. "It will let the House know we are serious about enrichment."
The Senate also approved all of the Ways and Means Committee recommendations, including a 7.5 percent salary increase for all faculty, an 8.25 percent student salary increase, a 6 percent increase in operating expenses and a 60 percent tuition fee waiver for graduate students.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Hewitt, R-Hiscall, said the committee tried to give faculty as much money as possible, but if wanted under the limits recommended by Gov. John Carlin.
Carlin recommended an 8.4 percent faculty salary increase, but he cut the Regents budget by changing the method of adjusting funds for changes in enrollment.
"Last session, in my view, the faculty salaries,
unfortunately, left them the low person on the
totem pole," Hess said. "I have hopes they are going to do some better than last year."
LAST YEAR, faculty received a 7 percent salary increase.
But Hess opposed the approval of an enrichment fund this early in the session, saying it would be better to wait until the session ends to see what funds are available.
"We don't want to go hog wild this session," he said. "If we feel are treaculty faculty members who want to take a big leap."
But State Sen. Jane Eldridge, R-Lawrence, made a stand for more money for higher education. Eldridge proposed three amendments to the state budget that would provide for a 10 percent increase in operating expenses.
"I think it's time this legislative body reacts to the needs of educational institutions," Edildreed said.
SHE PROPOSED an 8.75 percent faculty salary increase, with an extra 1.25 percent for critical needs, such as engineering, computer science and business.
"These areas need to be addressed up front, and not at the tag end, if there's any money left," she said, responding to Hess' request that the team be held until the end of the session to allocate an enrichment fund.
Although Eldridge's amendments failed, she said she approved of the $1.5 million fund that
"I share the concern about enrichment," she said. "But we must define our needs before we act."
The funding bill, passed 37-2, provides about $990 million for the six Regents institutions, with $13.1 million for KU. This includes $4.2 million for capital improvements.
The Senate approved $13.8 million for an addition to Haworth Hall, which was KU's highest-priority project. The funds would be spread out over four years, to be completed in 1906.
The proposed addition would connect Haworth and Malott halls. Faculty in the biology department say it is needed to create a 59-year-old Snow Hall, which now houses the biology department.
Spectators gather to watch Columbia's delayed launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—Astonauts Jack Laugnan and Gordon Fullerton had a bon voyage with their wives last night and turned in early with everything "go" for their takeoff this morning on the shuttle Columbia's weeklong third space voyage.
The takeoff has been moved back to 10 a.m.
(CST)
Earlier yesterday, the astronauts practiced emergency landings and inspected their "burd"
Recovery ships neared the inland at the Atlantic off North Florida where they will pick up the Columbia's jettisoned solid-fuel rocket boosters for reuse on a later shuttle mission.
Mission officials predicted the biggest crowd of spectators yet to watch a shuttle on the beaches and byways around the Kennedy Space Center, where tight security was clamped around the Columbia, now preclaimed a national resource.
"I think it will be a breathtaking event," said one 12-year-old visitor. "Kinda like a dragon shooting fire from its mouth as it goes up for air. I imagine it will be a pillar of fire. I can't
along right on schedule down to a pre-planned
11-hour hold ending at midnight.
EARLIER IN the day, mission test director Carlson said. "There are no problems at all."
BEN BIGLER/Kansan Staff
Forecasters saw no weather problems on the horizon, either at the Cape or in the high desert of New Mexico that is the target for Columbia's March 29 landing and also the prime spot for an emergency landing on the first orbit, should trouble occur.
AT NORTHRUP Strip, a 7-mile stretch of white gyrosum in the mountains of New Mexico, land support cranes rehearsed their role in the shuttle drama, using the equipment shipped in by train from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after heavy rains raced a landing there.
On the launch pad, the countdown clock ticked
If the shuttle departs on time, Columbia will register a new first. Both earlier takeoffs were
"I think we're ready to go," said Glynn Luney, the space shuttle program manager.
See SHUTTLE page 5
Thomas Simmons, 9, rolls a water tank down Michigan Street while his brother David, 7, carries a fishing net. The boys said they needed the tank for their fish.
Playboy interviews here this week
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
David Chan, Playboy photographer, is in Lawrence this week to interview KU women for the magazine's September feature, "Girls of the Big Eight."
"It's a job every male would like—to be behind
seven minutes or an hour," Chan said yesterday.
Chan will be in Lawrence through Wednesday for interviews. He and his assistant will then go to Kansas State University for interviews and photo sessions. They will return to the University
of Kansas for the photo sessions in about two weeks.
Two years ago, there was an uprase at Baylor University when Playboy was doing 'Girls of the University' in Texas.
Chan has already visited the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.
THE BIG EIGHT Conference is the sixth conference to be featured in Playboy's back-to-school issue. Chan has been the only photographer on the series.
Also included in the issue will be articles on the nation's top 20 college football teams, top 10 offensive and defensive players and the top football coach of the year.
Cram said he has not had any trouble with administrators or demonstrators at any of the other schools.
Ivy League, Harvard's student newspaper refused to run advertisements for the interviews.
The university's president threatened to expel any woman who was photographed by Playboy. The magazine solved the problem by featuring a young actress in "or not returning to Baylor the following year."
Three years ago, when Playboy featured the
THREE EDITORS of Baylor's student newspaper were fired when he ran an editorial that woke up a woman who won a prize.
But, Chan said, when it came time to choose the top football players, Baylor came "crawling
See PLAYBOY page 5
Weather
It will be fair today with temperatures in the mid-30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The temperature is 58°F. The low tonight will be in the 30s.
It will be warmer tomorrow with the high in the 60s.
Temperatures will be in the 50s for the rest of the week.
Mark Paulsen, Verndale, Minn., senior, practices throwing a discus in the field east of Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon. BEN BIOLGE/Kansas St.
Gleason scrutinizing petition in deciding defense to recall
Staff Reporter
By STEPHEN BLAIR
Lawrence City Commissioner Tom Gleason said yesterday that he would challenge in court the validity of an election to recall him if he found that there was a legal basis for a
"If I think the law provides me a remedy, I'll use it," Glason said.
the recall effort began in February after Gleason wrote a letter to City Manager Buford Watson suggesting that Watson resign or face the possibility of being fired.
But during closed sessions to evaluate Wat-
terson's performance, none of the commisso-
rion men is present.
The recall election will be scheduled in late April or early May.
GLEASON emphasized that he would have to do more research before he could confidently state the legal issues of a possible challenge to the recall election.
"the statutory grounds for recall are misconceived in incompetence or failure to per- maneuver."
Gleason also said he wanted to know whether it made any difference in a recall election if any of the charges on the petition could be shown to be false.
Gleason said he would try to discover whether the statements on a petition circulated by the Lawrence Committee were grounds for recall even if they were true.
The petition alleged that Gleason interfered with the trial manager, but Gleason did not appear to be a manager, and did not seem
AFTER GLEASON asked him to resign, Watson's job performance was evaluated by the commission.
"If all he had to do as part of the day to day stuff was to undergo an evaluation of his performance, we haven't interfered with his performance at all." Gleason said.
Members of the Lawrence Committee, which circulated the petition to force the recall election, have said that Gleason acted illegally in writing a letter to the full commission in writing the report to Watson.
"That's a lie." Gleason said.
Glesson said that if members of the Lawrence Committee really believed he broke the law, he would have been arrested.
"We have a system for enforcing violations of municipal ordinances and no one's seen fit to do anything about that," he said. "It's an indication of their sincerity in believing it."
Leason said he hoped to complete his research on a legal challenge to the recall effort.
ED CARTER, a member of the Lawrence College mayor, would not comment on that issue.
AFTER IT was disclosed that Gleason had written the letter, Lawrence Committee members Fred Pence and Marine Angersinger, lawrence lawmen asked, asked Gleason to resign.
There is a parallel between the letter to Watson and the request made by members of the committee. Glennsay, Gleason,
“It’s a question of appropriate use of recall sounds and boundless are satisfied for what has been already” he said.
Any legal challenge to a recall election must come 30 days after the signatures on the petitions have been received.
The city clerk validated the signatures on March11.
"That has got to be one of the most ignorant statements I've ever heard," Carter said. "He is supposed to react to the public's wishes. Freed up, he doesn't have any responsibilities. They had no group they were elected to represent."
But Carter disagreed.
"If they wanted to be consistent they'd have to get the approval of a majority of the voters before they expressed their reequest." Gleason said.
"He did break the law. He interfered with the city by trying to act unilaterally."
Gleason also said that the recall election could weaken the democratic process because if he lost the election, his successor would be appointed, not elected.
CARTER RESPONDED, "What is the democratic process? Isn't the recall election part of our constitutional right? It shows very clearly that a public can still have control of their destiny."
Should Gleason lose the election, his successor would be appointed by the four remaining city commissioners. In case of a tie, the deciding vote would be cast by the city attorney.
Gleason said that because he was elected last year and faces re-election next year, a recall vote would be necessary.
"I'm not afraid to let the people decide," he said. "I just don't want to let the city hang in."
But Carter said, "Why should the general public undergo another year of incompetence, if they decide that's what it is, or misconduct?"