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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Tuesday, February 9, 1982 Vol.92,No.92 USPS 650-640
Commission to discuss letter
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission expects to hear the full story tonight from Commissioner Tom Gleason on his attempt to get City Manager Buford Watson to resign.
The meeting, beginning at 7 p.m., is expected to include an executive session for discussion of Gleason's letter last week to Watson suggesting that Watson resign.
The meeting comes in the midst of efforts by a group, which includes former Lawrence Mayor Ed Carter, to petition for a special election to recall Gleason.
"The almost rabid response coming from people for my recall, comes from those who already have an "in" with Watson," Gleason said yesterday.
Watson said he did not have a comment on the recall effort.
GLEASON said he felt that people were focusing on this specific manner of dealing with Watson rather than on the deeper issue of whether Watson should stay at his job.
"All this talk about the manner in which I made the proposal is just a smoke screen for the issue."
Gleason cited an example of a study session last year in which he believed Watson was not doubtful.
"The most clear case we've seen in recent times is that there was a study session of the city commission where we discussed the Chamber of Commerce proposals for the new industrial park and we discussed the nuclear transportation ordinance."
Gleason said he thought it was important that Watson study the proposals about transporting radioactive materials because the city manager is also an important role in implementing the ordinance.
Gleason said that he was not at the session but that he was told about Watson's performance during a competition.
"He seemed relatively uninterested and was going in and out of the room. While the Chamber of Commerce people were there he was all ears and was helping out."
WATSON RESPONDED. "It be awfully hard for you to guess if he wasn't there. I don't know."
ClassEx calls Carlin's pav plan weak
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
Gleason said, "It's hard to build a broad base of support for something because it is (Watson) a special case."
KU's merit pay plan, which rewards employees for improved work, will fall apart if Gov. John Carlin's proposed 1.25 percent merit increase is not raised, Jan O'Neill, president-elect of the Classified Senate executive council, said yesterday.
ClassEx decided Friday to send Carlin a letter this week asking him to recommend further courses.
See WATSON page 5
Carlin recommended a *183,362 merit increase in his jan. 12 legislative message, down sharply that of Jan. 9, for a higher pay.
"He is recommending far less for merit than he has in the past," Zimmerman said.
EACH OF THE AT about 1,700 KU classified employees is assigned a range number, from three to 31 that corresponds to his position and salary. David Lewin, director of personnel, said.
The 1.25 merit increase that Carlin proposed
As employees move up to higher ranges, their salaries are increased by between 2.5 and 3.25 percent, according to their performance over either six months or a year, he said.
Employee evaluations are based on work objectives they set with their supervisors at the job level.
would not even pay the scheduled rate to an employee with average performance on the job.
Twenty percent, or 340, of KU's classified employees regularly receive outstanding evaluations, she said. Their scheduled pay increases now could be as high as 3 percent, she
O'Neill said that if average and outstanding employees "balanced each other out," the average merit pay increase would be about 5 percent.
THE MERIT pay plan was started in the 1980-81 school year to reward employees for good work.
ASK requests Senate funds for another campus director
Staff Reporter
By ANN LOWRY
"She really knows the issues in Topeka well.
Available at $4 KK pages."
KU's board member of Associate Students of Kansas intends to present a bill to the Student Senate finance and auditing committee today requesting money to hire a second campus
in the bill, Steve Dunn, the board member, asked for $360 from the Senate's unallocated account to hire a second ASK campus director, to replace the current executive in May, beginning in February and ending in March.
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But Bren Abbott, former student body vice president, said that senate and ASK were meant to prevent her from taking office.
IF THE BILL be issued, the individual hired would technically be employed by the Senate as a legislative assistant but would work as co-ordinator. Adkins, student body president, said yesterday.
Senate already allocates $17,000 annually to ASK. The state organization then pays $80 a month to each campus director at the seven member campuses.
Adkins said Patty Gerstenberger, Lenexa senior and ASK member, probably would be chosen to work alongside John Keightley, the present campus director.
"There's nothing in Senate rules and regulations that says what ASK can and can't do. They're supposed to have complete autonomy." Abbott said,
"There's no way around not having two people working," Adkins said.
See ASK page 5
Dunn's bill states that because KU is near Topeka and is much larger than the six other ASK member schools, only one campus director cannot fulfill the needs of the KU delegation.
ROB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
Adkins said that one director would concentrate efforts on dealing with the Legislature in Topeka while the other director would work to improve the ASK membership on the KU
"We don't have the kind of delegation and membership to be efficient." Adkins said.
it will be mostly cloudy today with a slight chance of snow flurries in the morning and winds blowing from the north-northwest at 10 to 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
Chances of snow are less than 20 percent tonight, with lowes between zero and five below. Wednesday will not be as cold, with expected highs near 20.
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A woman and a car leave their tracks in fresh-fallen snow south of Memorial Stadium.
Winds cause continuous cold
From Staff and Wire reports
Another cold snap hit most of the central United States yesterday, leaving bitterly cold temperatures, snow and numerous weather-related accidents in its path.
Lawrence police reported no serious accidents in the wake of the storm which blanketed New York City.
Snow fell over the Rockies, parts of the Central Plains states and southern Missouri and Illinois.
"These jet-stream patterns that sweep down from the North Pole have caused strange weather patterns all winter," Eagleman said. "They have been having 50-degree temperatures
Freezing rain and sheet was reported in central Texas, northern Oklahoma and northwest
The source of the cold weather, an unusual jet stream from the North Pole, has caused havoc all winter long, Joe Eagleman, KU professor of geology, said yesterday.
in the Aleutan Islands while we've been stuck in the icebox."
COLD WEATHER will continue in the Lawrence area through Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Partly cloudy skies will replace the snow, however.
The Weather Service forecasted a warming
for related storm zones 7
See related story page 7
trend to begin Thursday, with temperatures in the 40s on Saturday.
But yesterday's storm already has caused several accidents.
Increment weather was blamed for the death of Michael Holtkiss, 29, who was struck and killed by an Amtrac train at a crossing on the Western Michigan University campus in Kalamazoo. Holtkiss was clearing snow with a small tractor.
Two cars also were struck by passing trains in other parts of Michigan. One man was killed when his car slid through a railroad crossing into the path of an oncoming train.
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George Woodyard, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, stands in front of his souvenirs from his recent trip to the Second Cuban National Theatre Festival. The posters are hanging in his office in Strong Hall.
Theater festival gives prof insight into Cuban culture
Staff Reporter
By JANET MURPHY
Many Americans view Cuba as a country sealed off from the world by the impenetrable wall of communism—a country that people flee in makehawk boats.
But a KU professor who recently visited the school he found the people contented and well友利。
George Woodyard, professor of Spanish,
was the only American invited by the Cuban
Ministry of Culture to be an observer at its
National National Theatre Festival in late
January.
Woodyard said he felt fortunate to have attended the festival because Cuban theater
The festival ran from Jan. 21 to Feb. 1. Woodward was in Cuba from Jan. 25 to Feb. 1.
WOODYARD, associate dean of the graduate school, academic affairs and associate professor, also edits the "Latin American Theatre Review." The review is published at the University of Kansas and is distributed nationally.
Woodyard was he among observers from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, Holland, Spain, Algeria, Bulgaria, East Germany and the Soviet Union.
The festival will continue every two years.
tribute troupe, a group from the festival, the "Teatro Escabraya" performed a dramatization of short stories with a social message by a Cuban writer.
The reception room is there. There is an emphasis in Cuba to take the theater to the people, he said. He attended one production in a steel factory.
The Cuban people respond very well to the theater, he said. The first year of the festival, 1952, was one of the worst. This year, Woodyard said, that goal was surpassed on the fourth day of the festival.
"Theater is an important phenomenon in a revolutionary society," he said. "The government uses theater as a way of promoting social reform."
Although most of the Cuban productions followed a social reform theme, Shake-speare^2 "wrote Night and French" with the title "The Bourgeois Gentleman." also were presented.
ALTHOUGH THE factory had its own theatre troupe, a group from the festival, the
Along with the Cuban theater groups, Woodyard said, were young acting troupes from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. He said the productions of the Salvadorians and Guatemalans, who are in exile because of the revolutions in their countries, reflected the revolutionary struggle.
Although he was busy at the festival, Woodyard was able to see some of Havana. He said the festival officials were very accommodating in taking him wherever he went.
Social reform themes included the role of women as equals in a revolutionary society and commentaries on equal rights, Woodyard said.
"I had the feeling that people were contented with their lifestyle," he said, "but you can't be enthused by it. You can't be enthused by it."
HE SAID many of the dissidents in Cuba and the people who remained in Cuba were insane.
One man he talked to, who was an editorial writer for the government, said he was a member of the Congress.
Woodyard that because the state owned all property and provided the basic necessities for daily life, Cuban people did not have many great worries.
The salaries are low by our standards, he said. A worker may earn between $10 and $35 per hour.
See CUBA page 5