The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, Nov. 9, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 56 USPS 650-640
Carlin against salary request
Enjoying the last few days of this duck relaxes amid the peacefulness of Potter Lake.
Duck soup
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Gov. John Carlin does not agree with Regents school's contentions that their faculty members urgently need a 13 percent salary increase.
Carlin, after listening to officials from the seven Regents institutions present their budget requests for next year, said Friday that he still required a $20 decrease in faculty salaries was unrealistic.
Besides faculty salaries, the Regents universities emphasized their need for increases in supplies and equipment and enrollment ad hoc funds to keep up with increasing enrollment.
DAVID SHULENBURGER, president of the KU American Association of University Professors, said the KU faculty would feel badly if Carlin recommended an 8 percent increase in faculty salaries as he did last year instead of the requested 13 percent.
"Several of us will be meeting with the governor either this Friday or next, as we do each fall, to give him our budget plea," Shulenburer said.
The University of Kansas is seeking a $12 million increase in its general use fund budget, up from a base budget of about $87 million. KU also requested $621,000 in enrollment adjustments. The total Regents request for all their students was an increase of $430,980 over last year's request.
He said the faculty members were trying not to despair prematurely.
"The chancellor continues to tell us he's been in touch with the legislators and that the Legislature will treat us well." Shulenburger told us. "The people on that and we trust something will be done."
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS and the Kansas Board of Regents are concerned about the increasing number of faculty being lost to business and industry because they offer larger salaries.
In a prepared statement to the governor, Sandra McMullen, Regents chairman, pleaded with Carlin to be fair to the faculty and to help students understand the modes of talented professors from the University.
"My goal is simply to convince you that the Regents are gravely concerned about the future of our universities both in terms of continuing quality and morale," she said. "The inadequate faculty salary increases during the past decade, while inflation has relentlessly continued, have caused a steady worsening of the typical professor's economic position.
"Obviously it is a discouraging struggle to retain the brightest people in academic
Duane Acker, president of Kansas State University, also gave a presentation on behalf of the Regents schools, asking for faculty raises. He emphasized university losses to business and
KU ALONE has lost architecture professors to industry for salary increase of up to $15,000.
"The program is approaching the crisis stage," he said.
Robert Cobb, KU executive vice chancellor,
said the salary problem had be crucial.
Two geology professors left KU last year for industry and a 200 percent salary increase, he said.
Last year. Carlin recommended an 8 percent increase in faculty salaries and the Legislature appropriated a 7 percent increase.
Carlin said Friday that he heard nothing to convince him to change his stand opposing the campaign.
Carlin will make his final budget recommendation to the Legislature when it convenes in
Support for higher education was obvious Friday. The budget hearing had to be moved twice, each time to a larger room to accommodate all the people who showed up.
Besides the faculty salary increase, the Regents also requested an 11 percent increase in other operating expenditures (supplies and overhead) on behalf of the Regents schools in this area.
"Inflation in prices of supplies affects all areas of the universities," he said. "Increases have been devastating in costs of office supplies, consumable laboratory supplies, printing supplies, custodial and maintenance supplies and books and serial subscriptions."
IN YEARS PAST, the budget hearing has taken two or three days, but the Regents schools were given just half a day to plead their case this year. The new budget director, Lym Muchmore, is now investigating some of the state agencies are being allowed as much time to present their requests this year.
East Asian professor dies of heart attack
KU officials also complained about the lack of any questions from the governor or the budget department.
By LISA BOLTON
Staff Reporter
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, the University of Texas at Dallas, Friday in a hospital hallway at the emergency hospital. He was
Leban had taught Chinese and Japanese literature, history and language at the University of Kansas since 1866, when he joined the department of Eastern Asian languages and culture.
"I'm very shocked," Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday of Leban's sudden death. He was a very learned gentleman, as reasonable as he is, it've very sad. He was a marvelous person."
COBH SAID the University had lost an expert in the teaching of Chinese and of history. Leban's interests extended to other subjects as well, according to Cameron Hurst, department
"He was a multi-talented person," Hurst said.
"There were very few areas in which Carl wasn't knowledgeable and interested."
Leban had studied languages in Taiwan before coming to KU. He was a historian, especially of the Orient. He developed a Chinese-character typewriter and taught himself to use a computer. He also edited the Journal of the American-Oriental Society.
Hurst said that Leban was a proponent of academic and religious freedom and of freedom of speech. He said Leban decried hypocrisy wherever he saw it.
Leban is survived by his wife, Audrey, and his-
win sons, Bruce and Roy, both KU students.
They said that human rights, fairness and justice were the most important things to Leban and that he expressed his belief in those ideals through his life.
STUDENTS OF Leban's three classes this semester should attend as usual. Members of the faculty in the East Asian department will share responsibility for finishing Leban's classes, said Chae Jim Lee, co-director of the department.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lynn Leban Memorial Scholarship fund through the Kansas University Endowment Association or to the Jewish Community Center.
Leban's daughter, Lynn, died six years ago in an automobile accident. Leban established the memorial to fund an annual scholarship for a student of his class. He also desired a desire to serve others, according to his family.
A committee of University faculty selects each year's recipient.
Leban was born July 3, 1931, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Millie Wieser and Mary N. Leban. He earned a bachelor's degree in English composition at Syracuse University in 1964 and married Audrey Breitkopf, also from Brooklyn, that year.
See LEBAN page 5
Carl Leban
Kansas fields yield a large crop of marijuana
Staff Reporter
By TERESARIORDAN
Kansas had a miserable year for wheat this year, but the wet weather has produced a lush crop of a much different nature--marijuana.
"We've had a bumper crop of marjaina (in Douglas County) this year. It grows wild in this region," Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday.
The police department has already made three big finds of crops, he said.
"We could become one the major sources pot in the country if we don't patrol it," he said.
"We know where the major ones are and we just sort of wait until someone comes to
THE LANDOWNER is generally not responsible for the marijuana because so
much of it grows wild, be said, but those harvesting it face prosecution for a felony.
Harvesters of Kansas marjuana crops are cheating their customers because the
Monday Morning
marjiquana-K-grass by Douglas County law enforcement officials is much less potent than varieties from the southwestern United States or Mexico.
"K-grass is not known for its high THC content (tetrahydro cannabin, the active ingredient in marijuana). It is not a good quality grass. They use it to dilute the good stuff or to sell it to unknowing customers," he said.
directed at the producers or sellers of the weed, rather than at the casual user.
This emphasis on seizing marijuana crops, Malone said, reflects a new approach to the problem.
Miller, then the attorney general of Kansas,
conducted the biggest drug bust in Kansas when his 154-man battalion raided Lawrence in 1971.
"Nothing is ever going to match the years of Mern Miller as far as possession bumps go," Mern Miller said.
MALONE CONCEDEDES that the use of the drug is widespread—over 50 percent of Americans say they have smoked marijuana and 24.9 percent use it regularly—but says that it is more effective to direct prosecution of motorists rather than users of marijuana.
"If we had the personnel and desire, we could involve ourselves in a great number of
Douglas County brought to court only 22 people for possession of marijuana this year—a far cry from the raiding days of Miller, who arrested 191 people in Douglas
"Normally we divert the charges and make the offender do 20 hours of community work," said Malone, who is in favor of decriminalization of marijuana.
County in 1971. And the charges in those cases were usually drunken.
CURRENTLY POSSESSION for the first-time offender is a Class A misdemeanor, the penalty for which is a maximum of one year in jail and up to a $2,500 fine.
"If the first offender is caught again, we prosecute, but generally there is no penalty."
Although the legal emphasis has become focused on catching dealers, arrests of sellers have also increased.
'But last year we were successful in prosecuting five of the biggest sellers in Lawrence. Last year was the first time in a company that really made a dent in the marmarin market.
"But I'm not so pretentious to believe that the selling won't go on."
Basic paraphernalia for partaking of marijuana
Pot a harmful pleasure Med Center doctor says
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"It's not just young people anymore," Eric Voth, internal medical resident, said. "Marijuana use is found at all levels of business, industry and education."
Marijuana is popular because people refuse to believe that such a pleasurable drug is harmful, a University of Kansas Medical Center physician said last week.
"It is found aboard nuclear submarines, at military nuclear range sites and on nuclear launchers."
He said that it was becoming more common for business executives to smoke a joint at a workplace.
AMONG YOUng people, about 10 percent of high school seniors smoke marijuana daily, and about 60 percent of them smoke it occasionally. he said.
'If you go up to someone who smokes
marijuana and tell him that it is harmful, it won't worry him," Voth said.
He compared marijuana smoking to cigarette smoking 50 years ago, when researchers were first starting to find that cigarette smoking was a health hazard.
Already, he said, there was substantial scientific evidence that smoking marijuana damages the behavior control areas of the brain permanently. Motivation, concentration, coordination and reaction time may be affected permanently.
Although these harmful effects have been demonstrated, he said, pro-marijuana use lobbyists have effectively used the media to promote the scientific tests were inconclusive or faulty.
The National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Legislation (NORML) and Rolling Stone magazine are two powerful promarijuana use lobbies, he said.
See POT page 5
Budig family expects baby, plans nursery
Chancellor Gene A. Budig is doing his part to boost our outreach to the Ungersicht of Kapses.
Soon the patter of little footsteps, posses,
those of a future Jaynawk, will be heard
The little patter will belong to the baby that Charcolier and Mrs. Budig are expecting about the time of her birth.
the same week last month. Mrs. Budig said, "We're very happy about
Budid said they just found out about their lit-
tle surprise Wednesday
She said she would try not to let her pregnancy alter her schedule very much.
"I might slap me down a little bit, but I'll not to let it," she said Saturday. "It depends."
So far, Mrs. Budig has escaped the perils of morning sickness.
They have two children, Christopher, 17, and Mary Frances, 15.
The Budigs have yet to decide on names for the baby.
The chancellor's 26-room residence, 1532 Lilac Lane, does not come equipped with a nursery, but Mrs. Budig said she thought they could work something out.
"We can probably find something up here," she said.
Nugent of University Archives said he thought Frank Strong, KU chancellor from 1902 to 1920, was the only other chancellor whose name has survived. Frank Strong, was born in the early 1980s, Nugent said.
Weather
Today will be clear to partly cloudy with a high of 50, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be northerly, 5 to 10 mph. Tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy with a high in the upper 50%.