University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Thursday, February 18, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 99 USPS 650-640
Higher education Officials say future of universities at mercy of Kansas Legislature
Jim Dumas
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- The future of higher education in Kansas depends on the response of the Kansas Legislature, a Kansas Board of Regents member told lawmakers yesterday.
Lowman was one of several speakers at a joint meeting of the House and Senate Ways and Measures.
"Without your help, these towers of excellence are going to crumble," Frank Lowman, Hays Regent, said. "And when they crumble, you can't build them back again."
In their formal budget request to the Legislature, Regents members and university administrators said their priority again this year was hisher faculty salaries.
"In Kansas, we have a unique opportunity to improve the quality of our institutions," Chancellor Gene B. Budig said. "If you can help us, we can attract good quality teachers and researchers. We make these requests for our classes already on campus and those yet to come."
THE BOARD OF Regents requested a 13 percent increase in faculty salaries, a total increase of $2.7 million, earmarking a $6 million increase for KU faculty.
Gov. John Carlin recommended a 10 percent salary-increase, or $4.5 million for KU.
Carlin's recommendation was split between an 8.75 increase for all faculty and an extra 1.25 for faculty members in areas with a high market for engineering, computer science and business.
Carlin also slashed the Regents budget request for classified salaries from 10 percent to 8.75 percent. This would cut KU's classified salary request from $1.5 million to $1.2 million.
The Regents requested an 11 percent increase in other operating expenses, which includes supplies and maintenance costs. Carlin recommended a 6 percent increase.
Carlin also called for an increase in the shrinkage factor from 2 percent to 3.5 percent. Shrinkage is the estimated amount an insurance company has to shrink because of a turnover in faculty members.
A SALARY savings results because a position may be vacant for a period of time, and the replacement might be hired at a lower salary than the original employee.
The Legislature predetermines the amount of shrinkage and withholds this money from an employee.
At the current 2 percent shrinkage level, the University actually receives $890,000 for each $1 million of salary funds.
If shrinkage were increased to 3.5 percent, the
number of dollars paid per $95,000 of each $1
million of salary money.
With shrinkage subtracted, Carlin's recom-
mension drops from 10.4 percent to 4.4 percent.
The Regents recommended leaving shrinkage at 2 percent.
James Pickert, chairman of the Regents Building Committee, presented a list of capital improvements needed at the institutions. A $2.5 million loan from the Hall was listed as the committee's fifth priority.
But Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said he did not want the committee to vote.
"The odds are that it won't be this year, but there's a good chance for next year," he said.
BUDIG TOLD committee members that the Regents' 11 percent requested increase in operating expenses was important to offsee the increase of inflation and increasing maintenance costs.
He cited several examples of supplies bought in large quantities, such as pencils, test tubes and newsprint, in which the prices had gone up as much as 45 percent from 1981 to 1982.
*"For universities to prepare students for the modern market, up-to-date equipment must be available."*
"All units have become increasingly dependent on sophisticated scientific instruments and instrumentation."
The Regents also objected to Carlin's method of funding fund increases for changes in enrolment.
Carlin's recommendations were based on an old formula the Legislature used several years ago. It is based on enrollment changes from the fall of 1980 to the fall of 1981. KU's enrollment decreased slightly, so Carlin recommended cutting $25272 and 16 faculty positions from the KU budget.
THE REGENTS endorsed the method that the Legislature adopted in 1981, which uses the rule of first come last.
Under the corridor concept, the institution must absorb an increase or decrease of less than
In this system, the same year is used as a base for the next three years, so large changes in the number of faculty would be made only every three years.
Clark Ahlberg, president of Wichita State University, said the corridor concept gave universities more time to adjust to enrollment changes.
"It gives us a full year to give notice to all our faculty," he said. "The governor's rec令ation must be done."
are unable to give adequate notice to our employees.
"We are in favor of the corridor concept whether or not it produces more or less money. It gives us a good sense."
HESS SAID HE THought the Legislature would favor staying with the corridor method.
positions at universities that don't hold the prestige of those in our state."
Duane Acker, president of Kansas State University, said more and more Kansas faculty members were leaving institutions for more money.
"The exodus of faculty from Kanaas is more rapid than originally anticipated," he said. "We were not prepared to live through it."
He said it was not unusual to lose faculty members to higher positions that would advance their careers, but it was becoming increasingly common for faculty members to leave for jobs in private industry, and even to lower-ranked universities where they could earn more money.
Hess said he did not think the Regents would get the full 13 percent increase, but said universities would probably fare better than they did last year.
See BUDGET page 5
"I think both universities and social services
New Regents ponder jobs visit schools
By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter
The two new Board of Regents members said yesterday they would be likely to approve funding needed to provide the best education for the students in their district. The salaries and more operative funds for buildings.
The Regents, Jim Dumas and John Montgomery, accepted their positions in December just in time to review long budget proposals. It was also going to know the people that the budget will affect.
The two men will visit all seven Regents schools during the next two months. They visited Kansas State University last week and will visit the University of Kansas March 11.
"Each campus has different needs. I want to develop a feel for the interest of students, concerns of the faculty, and the concerns and interests of the general public," Dumas, a Kansas City, Kan., executive of Western Electric Co., said.
Dumas received a 'bachelor' and a master's degree in electrical engineering from KU and played basketball here 20 years ago. He also has a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University.
Montgomery, who runs a family newspaper publishing business in Junction City, received a bachelor's degree in American studies from the University of Florida where he began in business administration from Stanford.
The two Regents attended their first monthly Regents meeting in January, but their positions still have to be approved by the Kansas House and Senate.
In the meantime, they are learning about the Regents schools.
in their travels, Dumas said, they hoped to strengthen strengths and weaknesses of each Regex unit.
One of their responsibilities, and the most important one right now, they said, is the amount of salary increase faculty members would receive next year.
"The budget in its entirety is controversial," Dumas said. "It's an increase over what was had in previous years, but the most important aspect is salaries. We need to minimize the impact of inflation and become more and more competitive in the market place."
Gov. John Carlin has recommended a 10 percent increase in faculty salaries. The Regents recommended a 13 percent increase last year, before the new members had a vote.
MONTGOMERY SAID he was not sure how large the increase should be.
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    see REGENTS page 5
3 KU athletes arrested in area thefts
By BECKY ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
Cedric Alexander, Chicago freshman, Renwick Atkins, Chicago sophomore, and Broderick Thompson, Cerritos, Calif., junior, were each of theburgry and one count of arm theft.
Three KU football players were charged in Douglas County District Court yesterday in connection with a bribery investigation.
Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone filed charges against Alexander in connection with a Feb. 9 burglary at a residence in the 700 block of Ohio street.
Malone filed charges against Atkins and Thomson in connection with two separate Dec. 29 cases, including a wrongful arrest.
In the Feb. 9 burglar, four speakers, a stereo amplifier, a sleater speaker, an cassette deck and a tape recorder.
IN ONE BURGLARY, at Tower B, a turntable,
sensor receiver, cassette deck and two speakers
in one.
In the second burglary, at Tower D, a portable television, component stereo and speakers were stored.
After voluntarily reporting to the District
So solved column 10.
Court, the suspects were arraigned, booked and released on £2.500 recognition bonds.
Associate District Judge Mike Elwell set Alexander's preliminary hearing for March 3. Atkins and Thompson face preliminary hearings March 5.
Jim Denney, director of KU police, said
the investigation police were
continuing the investigation.
"We continuing the investigation to see if he be additional people involved," Denew said.
DENNEY ALSO said there would be more
KU and Lawrence police recovered more than $8,000 worth of stolen property Feb. 12 in a Jayhawker Towers apartment. The property is located in December and February burialeries. Denver said.
property recovered in connection with the burglaries.
During the 1981 football season, Atkins, a 6-foot-5, 285-pound defensive tackle, and a Thompson, a 6-4, 285-pound defensive tackle, started for the Rangers in the first round of starting position halfway through the season.
The 6-foot-9, 295-pound Alexander has been training with the football team. He was traded from Georgia to Oklahoma.
KU football coach Don Fambrough declined to comment on the players' futures.
Weather
George Brett of the Kansas City Royals speaks at the dedication ceremony of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Regional Research Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Seated next to the lecturer is Keith Worthington, an ALS patient. In the front row of the audience sit Chancellor Gene A. Budig (left), David Waxman, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center and Dewey Zlegler, head of the center. See story page 3
JOHN HANKAMMER/Kansan Stall
Drizzle and fog are expected throughout the morning, with partly cloudy skies this afternoon and temperatures to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Winds will be light and from the northwest at about 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high around 50.
5 file civil rights complaints against Gammon's nightclub
Staff Reporter
By JANET MURPHY
Four KU students and one former KU student have filed discrimination complaints with the U.S. Attorney's office in Topeka against a Lawrence nightclub.
Gary Laster, 2348 Murphy Dr., a former KU student, charged Gamson's, 1601 W. 23rd St., with violating the civil rights of his guests on that university's occasions because of their national origin.
"I feel like I'm being discriminated against because I am not allowed to have the guests I want and I am a bona fide member of the club," Laster said yesterday.
Douglas Lara, Venezuela special student, George Reis, Brazil junior, Oswaldo Sanchez, Venezuela senior, and Paulo Vascone洛, Brazil senior, also filed similar complaints with the U.S. Attorney's office. None of the students are members of Gammon's.
MARY BRISCOE, an assistant U.S. attorney in Topeka, said that the attorney's office received the complaints Tuesday and that it would review the allegations.
Laster said the four students had tried to use their passports for identification to get into the club as his guests, but were told the passports were not legal documents.
But Mikse Kirch, general manager of Gammons', said Monday that the club did not discriminate. He said they asked for proper identification of all people who came into the club.
Proper identification, according to Kirsch, is a birth certificate with some other form of a picture I.D., a military I.D., or any valid U.S. driver's license.
He refused to comment on whether a passport could be used as proper identification.
Gammon's doesn't discriminate, Kirsch said, but "we don't want people coming in looking like us."
Reis said he had occasionally been refused entry to the club as a guest.
ON AUG. 21, 1811, Laster said, all four students were refused entry to the club as his guests. On Dec. 30, 1811, and Jan. 8, 1862, Lara and Sanchez were not permitted in as Lara's guest, he said.
He said he could usually get into the club on a night, like a Monday, but on a busier night, it was more difficult.
"The doorman said the manager had given him strict order not to access passports," Reis said.
IN HIS COMPLIANT Laster had he met
much of the manager on Dec. 30, to ask
him about this matter. He had told
me that he
"He told me, 'I own the club and I make the rules,' " Laster's complaint said. "If my door attendants tell someone they can't come in, they'll ask for me." I told him that I didn't think this was right."
Lara said he tried to use his passport and an identification card from his country to get into the club. He said he was told he would have to have a Kansas driver's license.
sanchez, who also tried to use his passport to gain entry into the club, said he thought it was unfair because he saw others going in who were not asked to show identification.
He said he thought a racial attitude had kept him out of the chats at times, although he too had heard other racists.
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