University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1981
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KUAC to scrutinize intercollegiate funding
By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter
In addition to paying higher prices for season football and basketball tickets, KU students will continue their studies at a more advanced department the athletic department has its way.
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board will meet at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Satellite Union building and training a $4.50 student fee to fund women's and men's non-revenue sports. According to financial statements and athletic department records, the need for the fee is apparent.
"Until we discuss it at the meeting, I hesitate to comment on it. Bob Marcum, KU athletic team." "And we are definitely confident it now,"
Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager. agreed.
"It's very important to the survival of our program," she said of the fee.
The current $4.50 fee evolved from a $1.50 student fee, which funded women's athletics. In 1979, KUAC added the $1.50 assessment to other campus privilege fees that students pay at enrollment.
LAST SPRING, as an alternative to eliminating a sport or submitting an unbalanced budget to the Kansas Board of Regents, the KUAC board voted to add to the women's fee to the program and men's non-renewal athletics.
The resulting $4.50 fee was approved by the acting chancellor and the Regents and was put into effect this year. A stipulation required that the tee be re-examined and other conditions be considered before renewal.
A financial impact statement that
justified the fee increase and explained the new policy appeared on the May 15 Regents Budget and Finance Committee agenda.
"This switch in funding would provide a new base for the funding of non-revenue sports," the statement said. "The programs were funded in previous years from revenue generated primarily by the football and basketball programs. These two programs were no longer reached a level of saturation and can no longer fund non-revenue sports to the extent previously possible."
Despite increased prices for season basketball and football tickets, Marcum said revenue from this season's football games had been sufficient but had not really pleased him.
The financial statement also said the fee was producing 50 percent of the funding for non-revenue sports, excluding money from the Williams Fund donations, which support athletic scholarships.
The statement revealed that the increased fee scarcely boosted women's funding. Last year the $1.50 fee contributed $66,000 to the women's eight-sport budget, while this year it will add $75,500.
The men's non-revenue sports, on the other hand, will receive about $104,000 of the fee. The money will be shared among five sports.
MARCUM SAID that trying to share the revenue equally would be impossible. In determining the amount of money allocated to each sport, the competitive level of the sport, its expected operating expense and its financial scholarship had to be considered, he said.
"If you're looking for equality of sports, I don't think you're gonna find it anywhere," Marcum said.
Fee hike tops KUAC agenda
Athletic officials will review student fees as funding sources tomorrow during this fall's first meeting of the Athletic Board, which represents the Corporate's board of directors.
The usual $1.50 campus privilege fee for women's and men's non-revenue intercollegiate sports was raised to $4.50 last year.
The board approved the fee hike last year contingent upon re-evalating its necessity. According to Bert Coleman,
The board will also discuss academic matters, non-revenue sports, committee appointments and the role of the KUAC as policy-making group.
student body president and KUAC member, the KUAC could eliminate the additional student charges if the instruction could plan its budget correctly.
The KUAC board will meet at 4 p.m. on the ground and participate part room of the Satellite Univ.
Auditoriums to be dedicated for KU profs
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
They don't understand why the University of Kansas is making such a fuss over them.
They wonder what they did to deserve the hospital of having auditorium bear the names
Despite the modesty of the two former KU professors, the University will honor them Tuesday with the motion of auditoriums in their names.
"If you saw the list of their accomplishments, you'd understand why. Jim Scaly, administrative assistant to the chancelor, said Monday.
THE AUDITORIUM in Dyche Hall will be renamed for Cora M. Downs, a kU professor of microbiology from 1917 to 1963, and the auditorium on the third floor of Strong Hall will be named for Dr. John B. Professor of chemistry from 1919 to 1963.
The auditoriums will be dedicated in
a ceremony at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union, with laudatory speeches for the two professors and the unveiling of two monuments.
Scally said the ceremony was planned for Tuesday so it would coincide with the speech of Nobel Prize winner Melvin Calvin, who will speak Tuesday.
Despite the numerous awards and research accomplishments the two professors can claim, they responded to security's announcement with amazement.
Downs said yesterday, "I was very pleased, and very much honored, but it's been a long time since I was active at the University. I really felt as though I've received all the honors I should have received.
"I was really kind of reluctant to accept this one, too."
WHEN SHE was told of the honor, she told the University, "I can't imagine why you'd name an auditorium for me,"
Brewster said yesterday, "I feel highly honored, of course, but you
shouldn't be too big-headed about the things."
he had told the University, "I'm greatly honored to have an auditorium dedicated in my name—little as I deserve it."
Others disagree.
David Paretsky, professor of microbiology, worked with Downs while she was part of the KU faculty and explained why she should be
"The University is trying to make something tangible of this scientist who has been, in her lifetime, widely known by all science communities," he said in scientific community." he said.
He said her greatest accomplishment came in 1958 when she developed a fluorescent staining technique that easily identify bacteria and viruses.
"You put it under a microscope and it stands out," he said.
In 1975, the Public Health Service of
PARETSKY SAID that Downs' paper on the subject is the eighth most frequently cited article in the field of pathology.
the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare named her "Woman of the Year" for this region, he said.
When that award was announced, Downs said. "Why did they pick me?"
Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry, said that Brewster was equally modest, but he was a "fine teacher and a great man to work for."
Paretsky said, "She's a very unassuming person."
Kleinberg said Brewster was chairman of the chemistry department when he came to teach here in 1946.
"He's done a lot for the University," Kleinberg said. "He built a very strong chemistry department. He really brought in a good staff. He established the democratic practices in the department that are still used today."
IN ADDITION, Brewster wrote the first modern organic chemistry textbook and he was instrumented in getting funds to build Malot Hall.
Both Kleinberg and Paretsky will give speeches about the honored professors at the ceremony.
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