KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Monday, March 8, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 111 USPS 650-640
Eldredge cools support for faculty salary raise
Bv COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
State Sen. Jane Eidedge, R-Lawrence, who last year was a staunch supporter of high salaries for KU faculty, has cooled her support this year.
She expressed her approval Saturday of a recommended 7.5 percent Board of Regents faculty salary increase, saying that a larger salary would not be fair to other state employees.
"State employees have enjoyed a salary growth at the same rate of our (state) budget, about 7 or 8 percent," she said at the "Eggs and Issues" breakfast sponsored by the Lawrence Business of Commerce. "It's appropriate that faculty salaries not be dramatically abend of the state."
The Regents recommended a 13 percent increase.
At an "Ans. cards and Issues" breakfast last year, Eldredge lashed out at the Legislature for using budget cuts to punish KU. The Senate cut Gov. McKinney 8 percent and 8 percent faculty salary increase to 7 percent.
ELDREDGE ACCUSED former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and former Lawrence Senator Arnold Berman of working with the Legislature to cut KU's budget
Her speech at the breakfast last year launched Eldredge's crush to save the KU budget.
She made several amendments on the Senate floor to restore the cuts, but her attempts were uneventful.
But in a turnaround from her former position, Eldredge said that as long as the state budget grew by only 8 percent, faculty salaries should not be higher than that.
“It’s hard to justify giving more money to some employees,” she said. “We all deal with inflation, and those in private industry aren’t guaranteed any salary increase at all.”
SHE SAID faculty salaries fared much better during the years of Gov. Robert Bennett (1975-1979), but since then, salary increases have "trailed dramatically."
"But when KU gets its money, they do
can to put it into faculty
salaries," she added.
Eldridge said that until the state raised more money, there was no reason why KU faculty should receive pay raises of more than 7.5 percent when other state employees do not.
"I hope we can increase revenues for the state, and thereby increase money for our state."
She said one source of extra funding was Carlin's propose severance tax, a tax on oil and gas. She said the issue had been raised in
ONE OF THE most controversial issues in the Legislature this session, the 3.5 percent severance tax, was recently passed in the House and代表们batives but faces strong opposition in the Senate.
She said the committee's 7.5 percent recommendation and faculty salaries was a good sign for KK's team. "It's
Eldredge said Senate leadership was not counting on a severance tax to pad the state general fund, so the Senate Ways and Means committee recommended would probably remain intact.
Eldridge told those attending the monthly breakfast that the committee recommendations represented the same amount of money as Carlin's 10 percent faculty salary increase.
This is because 1.25 percent of his recommendation was targeted for faculty in "critical need" areas such as engineering and computer science.
CARLIN ALSO cut the Regents budget in two other areas. He increased shrinkage, the amount of money the Legislature withholds from salaries to account for employee turnover, and also changed the method of enrollment adjustment.
Carlin's recommendations would have cut $292,722 and 15 faculty positions from the KU budget, but the Senate committee restored $400,000 for enrollment adjustment, she said.
The committee also kept shrinkage at the current level. These changes amounted to the same number of dollars that Carlin recommended.
Other legislators who spoke at the breakfast discussed a congressional redistricting map, approved by a Senate committee Thursday, that
See EGGS page 5
MARK McDONALDIKansan Staff
Michael Hall (left) and Craig Jarrett, both Kansas City, Kan., juniors, stand in front of the home at 1417 W. 19th St. where on Saturday they saved Margie Attebery, 59, from a house fire.
Students pull woman from fiery home
By BECKY ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
Battling flames, billowing clouds of smoke and 20-degree temperatures, two KU students rescued a Lawrence woman from her flaming home early Saturday morning.
Craig Jairrell and Michael Hall, both Kansas City, Kan., junior, pulled Margie Atterbury, 59, from her home at 1417 W. 19th after they were in the hospital. The house and the front door frame about 2.30 a.m.
The men, who were returning to the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity house, 2021 Stewart St., after dropping off their dates, said they were carrying a fire and fire and stopped as they turned onto 19th Street.
"I got the address and took off for Oliver Hall to call the fire department." Hall said.
Jarrett said, "I stayed and kept kicking on the doors and the garage. The front door was real hot"
HE SAID he kept looking for a way to find out whether anyone was in the house. Jarrett went around to the east side of the house and noticed a window nane was broken in the garage window.
Jarrett yelled in the window and listened for a response from inside the house.
Atthebrew, who was on the kitchen floor, heard Jarrett yell at the window and called for help.
"I was asleep in the bedroom and started smelling smoke. My bedroom's in the back of the house and the fire was in the front. I tried to get into the kitchen to phone the fire department." Atteberry said yesterday from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she was being treated for smoke inhalation. She was in satisfactory condition.
"I opened the back door and was going to the front, but there was so much smoke I knew I had."
JARETTET SAID he broke in the bottom of the garage when he heard a berylliumell for help.
"I asked her if she could crawl toward me," he said. She said she couldn't and that it wasn't true. "She said I was wrong."
"There's no way I could have stood out there." Jarrett said he found his way through the thick smoke and darkness to the kitchen where he could see Attebury lying on the floor about 15 feet from the flames. The flames from the fire gave out enough light for Jarrett to be able to see her.
"I wouldn't have gone in, but when I heard somebody in there I knew I had to.
"The smoke was getting a lot worse. I couldnt see the window and I panicked a minute, and I turned back to look at the door."
"I picked her up under her arms and just
carried her with her feet dragging," Jarrett said.
HALL RETURNED to the house just as Jarrett was looking for a way to the window.
"I started to pull him out and he said 'Wait a minute.' Hall said. Jarrett then handed Atebyre out of the window and Hall pulled her out of the ground on the ground several feet away from the house.
Hall said he guided Jarrett back to the window with his voice. They were able to find each other by yelling back and forth until Jarrett reached the garage window.
"I got real scared because it didn't know where he was or what he was doing." Hall said. "I had to go to the police."
"When he handed her out the window, I didn't know if she was dead or unconscious." Hall said. Jarrett said, "After I handed her out, I just leaned out the window and couched."
ATTEBURY was conscious when Jarrett rescued her from the kitchen and was able to tell them that there was no one else in the house.
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Reps tell classified workers to unite against salary plan
'When she said there wasn't anybody else in
Three local legislators told KU's classified employees yesterday to band together in statewide opposition to a plan that would slash faculty increases to provide higher pay for faculty members.
"If you band with other state employees, you can become a very effective state lobby group," State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, told more than 30 classified employees attending a meeting at the Kansas Union.
Charlton appeared with State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, and State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, to discuss Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Hess' suggestion that the committee cut the recomma- tion of salary increase from 8.75 percent to 8 percent.
Hess, a Wichita Republican, had proposed that funds cut from classified salary increases could help finance an enrichment fund for faculty at the University of Oklahoma to be raised 8.75 percent by Gov. John Carlin.
BUT HESS said that if the enrichment fund was approved, money to finance it would be taken from several different areas, not just from classified salary increases.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig has lobbed for a 13 percent increase in faculty salaries. Hess' enrichment fund would raise the average faculty increase above Carlin's recommendation.
But KU Classified Senate leaders have obiected to Hess 'propposal.
Gail Hamilton, president of the Classified Senate, said that although the classified employees generally supported an enrichment fund, the department did not pay at the expense of the classified employees.
"It shouldn't come out of our pay increase," Hamilton said. "We're all working together."
At its Friday meeting, faculty members on the university Senate Executive Committee went on a walk to discuss the report.
Hess had justified a cut in the classified salary increase because he said classified salaries at Regents institutions rose 10 percent last year. He reported that the same increases during the same period totaled 7 percent.
But Hamilton said those figures were wrong.
"For classified employees, it's no higher than 8 (percent)," she said. "I don't have any figures for faculty on the Lawrence campus, but I've seen them around 7.7 percent. They're very comparable."
Shrinkage is the amount of money the Legislature leaves unappropriated to cover unexpected faculty losses in the University budget.
"The faculty salary increases on the governor's budget looked like they would be 10 percent," Eldredge said. "But with shrinkage, they dropped to 7.5 percent."
Eidrured said she also had problems understanding Heess' proposals.
Weather
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CLOUDY
It will be partly cloudy today, with highs in the mid to lower 40s. Winds will be out of the northwest this afternoon at 9 a.m. The low Monday night will be near 20.
Tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy, with highs in the mid-40s. The remainder of the week will be fair and mild
Carter cleared of playing politics on company time
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. has cleared Ed Carter, the company's Lawrence general manager, of a charge that he engaged in political activities on company time, Steve Cathey, Bell assistant vice president for public relations, said Friday.
the company reviewed Carter's performance after Emily Wellman, 2025 Barker, filed an informal complaint with the Kansas Corporation Commission charging that Carter's work on the recall Lawrence City Commissioner Tom Gleason amounted to a rate摊子 subsidy of political activities.
Carter and Wellman, an accountant, were not available for comment.
"She is incorrect in observing that Mr. Carter pursues those activities on company time,"
CARTER, a former Lawrence mayor, is a member of the Lawrence Committee, which organized the recall effort after Glason wrote a
Pizza delivery features slices of life
See CARTER page 5
Rv JIM LEHNER
Staff Reporter
A man jumps out of his car, rushes into the store and asks his manager. "What orders do you have for me?" He picks up six pizzas— four pepperoni, one Canadian bacon, one sausage—and begins his mission as delivery man.
George Sherwood, Fox Lakes, Ill., sophomore, had six orders from Domino's Pizza, and five to six minutes to get to McCallum Hall.
When Sherwood arrived at McCollum, he was surrounded by hungry-looking residents, some of whom were unkempt.
ANOTHER RESIDENT Tried to use a one-topping coupon for a two-topping pizza Sherwood quickly told the student that the coupon was invalid. The teacher then tried the coupon should be OK, but finally gave up when he realized Sherwood would not be persuaded.
"My you got here quick. I just called you," one resident told Sherwood.
hard times," Sherwood said. "One time a person called the store back claiming that his pizza was lacking an ingredient that he ordered. When I brought back another pizza, I saw on the returned pizza where the ingredients had been rinSED out."
"We get some people who like to give us
But Sherwood said most customers were nice to him.
freshman, said he bought a pizza once every two weeks during study breaks.
Monday Morning
that's the time I usually get hungry," he said.
DUANE JONES, Ottawa senior, said he ordered pizza because he didn't want to go out to get it.
face to face There are several reasons why students
have difficulty with HealthHabits.
"I usually order it around 9 p.m. because
that's the time I usually get hungry." he said.
"I eat at a restaurant," he added.
"I order a pizza usually for study break purposes, but primarily because I get tired of the dorm food," he said. "I usually order it between 10 and 11 p.m. about once a week, with my favorite pizza being pepporoni and double cheese."
Wally Fradshaw, St. Louis, Mo., freshman,
had no difficulty picking twice a week.
"I get a pizza because the dorm food is atrocious." Bradshaw said.
He said that his favorite pizza was pepperoni and that he'd order it anytime.
"Whenever I get the urge, I'll order a pizza," Bradshaw said. "The thing that I like about the delivery people is that they're courteous and usually on time."
SHERWOOD SAID the busiest nights for
Riday and Saturday, with
Sunday close behind.
"On weekends we get a lot of orders," he said. "Last Friday I didn't get home until 3:30."
"Tonight I had 45 deliveries. That is usually what I average on a weeknight and over $9 on delivery."
Sherwood said that after a football or basketball game pizza orders soared.
"That's when we really move fast," he said. The faster you deliver pizzas, the more customer service is needed.
kept himself busy running to and See PIZZA page 5
TRACEY.THOMPSON/Kansan Staff
Matt Bilaro, Overland Park sophomore, delivers a piza to Corbin residents Cheri Dwyer,
Leawood freshman, and Susan Pakre, Prairie Village freshman.