Hiring blacks hard for KU
BY CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas, like many other universities across the United States, has had a difficult time finding black faculty and staff members.
In 1976 KU lost six of its black professors, more than 20 percent of its black faculty.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said recently that the University was making efforts to attract blacks to KU.
There are many reasons educational institutions, and particularly KU, have bad problems with black recruitment Solutions to the problems, however, are KU's.
"There is a determined effort on the part of the office of academic affairs to deal with this problem," Dykes said, "and under the direction of Dr. Calgaard. I think the office has done a good job.
THE EFFORT has to permeate the University because most of our faculty searches begin at the departmental it has to be an institution wide effort.
However, Clarence Dilhaming, acting director of affirmative action, said he thought little effort was made in Lawrence and at KU to attract blacks.
"Lawrence is no drawing place for blacks. The city just doesn't demonstrate a commitment."
Ron Calgaard, vice charger for academic affairs, said there were three major reasons KU had difficulty bringing blacks to the University.
"ONE, THERE is a relatively small number of blacks and minority candidates in some academic disciplines," Lawrence said. "Operations and other universities take away candidates. Three, Lawrence can be unattractive in the sense that Lawrence does not have a black community outside the University."
Mary Kay Parks, director of a cultural enrichment program in Kansas City, Kan., works with minorities who are interested in colleges.
"I work with people with interests in going to college anywhere," Parks said. "The idea is broader than recruitment for KU."
Parks said she had helped about 40 young people since the creation of her office in July.
"I have to say that black students do need black faculty members around them," Parks said. "One, to serve as a role model, and two, to add a black perspective to whatever kind of course offered if the department is all white."
HOWEVER, drawing black faculty members to KU traditionally has not been easy.
Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, said recruitment of blacks was different from recruitment of other faculty members.
"This kind of recruitment requires contacts in informal networks and it requires some contact in organizations where staff know each other and bring computers." Adams said.
"There is a commitment, but not enough. The way to undermine a commitment is to call a goal a quota, and already it's dead."
"We fear that there are going to be some cutbacks because of an expected decline of students." Adams said.
ALTHOUGH KU'S enrollment set a record this fall, University administrators recently said enrollment would begin to decline.
"It is incorrect to assume that recruitment of minority professors is the same as recruitment of other faculty members and to insist that the identical
"Most of my colleagues in engineering are very aware of the need for black faculty and other minority faculty. I am confident that true of other faculty members too."
William Hogan, assistant executive vice chairman and associate professor of the College of Engineering, solutions to the problems of bringing blacks to KU had to come from within the university.
"We need an increased awareness of the problem because of national trends and because of our enrollment and how we feel about it, think we've got some work to do in them."
In addition to initial black recruitment problems at KU, the University's location in Kansas and the city of Lawrence have increased recruitment
ALTHOUGH Hogan thinks Lawrence is a fine community, an unmarried black person would be less likely to come to KU than one who is married, he said.
"The subcommittee can be important if it can identify the issues, such as hiring of minority faculty and staff, that are critical to our large number of students," he said.
When you come to Lawrence, Hogan
meet MXR SMITH. beware!
Minority committee has growing pains
George Gomer, Topeka junior and a member of the subcommittee last year, has been appointed to be the single most important body for the advancement and expression of his views.
Staff Reporter
By PHILIP GARCIA
However, because of a recent controversy over the Natalie Caine homecoming concert, a movement to reactivate the subcommittee has started.
In fall 1978, Teddie Tasheff, then student body president, said the Student Senate minor affairs subcommittee. In spring 1979, a tonic stage" after one year of existence.
It it seems the subcommittee, more than two years later, has not yet reached infancy. In fact, the subcommittee has been dormant for the past year.
Since September 1977, the subcommittee, part of the Student Rights Committee, has met only twice and both times—once in September and once in October.
During the same period, the subcommittee has not had an elected chairman. There are no current appointments for positions on the subcommittee.
Leon Brady, City City, Kan., senator and engineering senator, said he had received a letter from the reactivating the subcommittee after a proposal for an advisory council to the city.
ROBINSON SAID any attempt to reactivate the subcommittee would have to be approached with a commitment to make the subcommittee leitimate.
"THE COMMITTEE has been in existence in an organizational sense but not in a participatory sense," Reggie Robinson, former acting chairman of the subcommittee and current student body vice president, said recently.
"Since the subcommittee has been inactive, we have lost so much of the
"Since the subcommittee is a formal committee and is recognized, if we talk about a given problem, the reporter can be right there at committee meetings." Brady said. "The advantage of the committee over a council is that this council can go into other areas of the University and can act in the Council would only function with the Kowalski
concept of how the subcommittee should be set up. "Gomes said, "We have to redevelop it. Hopefully, the Cole controversy has created the interest that will keep the committee going and develop it into an effective body."
BRADY SAID reactivating the subcommittee would provide minority students with a formal, recognized body of knowledge. The committee groups or organizations, particularly with the Kansan. He said he was not aware of the subcommittee four weeks
"I would like to see the committee function where people could come to the committee if they had a problem," he said. "The committee may not provide solution to the problem, but could provide solution when serving as a source to the Kanan.
But he added, "It's going to take a lot of different people—blacks, whites, Chicanos, Indians and women—with a lot of input for the committee to be a succes
"If nobody thinks there is a problem or nobody sees a problem, there is no point in reactiving the committee."
RODNEY DENNIS, then chairman of the subcommittee, had said a lack of unity among minority groups on campus and a lack of organization and functioning of the center.
One of the first stumbling blocks for the subcommittee was its failure to establish and sponsor a Minority Student Advisory Council, as did the subcommittee's initial project.
It seems the subcommittee has had trouble reaching its goals in the past.
"I didn't think it was Rodney's intention to have the center as an umbrella organization. But I could see on down the line when people might say, 'why give money to separate groups and just fund them through the center.'"
Although the center was to have opened in October 1978, the center never has been established.
Robinson said, "When the plans for the minority center became known, a lot of minority students didn't like the way the plans were set up."
Part of the disunity was caused by a fear among the organizations that they would be lumped together and funded through the center, thus losing individual
A second stumbling block for the subcommittee was the lack of an
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aggressiveness and self-confidence. During games his voice can be heard above all the others, barking out instructions to help pace the game. See story page two.
Center of Interest
Rovee Miller, player-coach for the Topeka Chairmen, bases his coaching style on
aggressiveness and self-confidence. During games his voice can be heard above all the
others, barking out instructions to help pace the game. See story page two.
Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, December 6. 1978
Vol. 89, No.69
1980 KU budget to be discussed
Rv DERRIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
In the wake of a recommended $4.5 million cut in the University of Kansas fiscal 1980 budget, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said last night that restoration of faculty salary increases would be the top priority when budget hearings convened Tuesday.
James Bibb, state budget director, recommended that KU's budget be trimmed from about $74.5 million to $9.9 million, but Dykes and other Ku officials will attempt to justify KU needs for more funds in tax credit budget bearings with Gov. elect John Carlin.
"Our most basic concern is restoring the money for increases in faculty and staff salaries to bring them up to the highest level possible." Dykes said.
KU requested a 6.5 percent increase in faculty salaries, but Bible recommended no change.
cut a request for a 9.5 percent increase in student wages to 5 percent.
DVKES SAID he expected some money could be restored for wages and salaries, but doubted it would be more than 7 percent of the budget. The contrary wage guidelines of 7 percent increase.
Dykes said the second priority was to maintain KU's request for a 6 percent increase in other operating expenses, which Bibb limited to 5 percent.
"We will try to get as much restored as possible," Dykes said. "We are very concerned about the effects of inflation on our economy." He said the operating expenses of the University."
OTHER KU REQUESTS that Bibl recommended he eliminated were;
+ A $137,986 request for research to assist groundwater management districts and
towns in Michigan.
- A $43,268 request for two new programs
at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
- A $40,996 request for intercollegiate
athletics—most of which would be intended
for college sports.
Dykes said he was particularly concerned with the cut in requested funds for KU athletic programs because this money would be used to comply with Title IX.
Title IX states that "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes" must
"If we don't receive funds from the state, the money will have to come from somewhere else in the budget." Dykes said. "Compromise with Title IX is an absolute burden."
ALL NEW CAPITAL improvement funding requests were not included in Bibb's budget recommendation, but he did approve it. He has also building projects already started on campus.
Bibb cut a $1.9 million request for Phase
Two of Lindley Hall renovation and an $800,000 request for a solid waste power
Additional funding requests for renovation of Marvin Hall and Watson Library were approved as well as money for constructing additions to Robinson Gym.
Bibb cut a $1.9 million request to make the campus more accessible to the ban
Dykes said KU's request for remotely built buildings for the handicapped could be justified at the hearings because of a federal law that requires that all buildings be ac-
Bibb also recommended eliminating about $300,000 used to fund KU's Law Enforcement.
After six days of budget hearings the adjusted 1980 budget will be reviewed by the Kansas Legislature. Final budgeted money will be decided in the spring.
Students safeguard art projects
By MARK SPENCER
Staff Reporter
At the west end of the gallery in the Visual Arts Building, there is a large black safe with several photocopies of artwork on the wall above it.
Hove the copies is a letter that states, "We, the undersigned, do hereby proudly display our art. It is a pity that you, the viewer, cannot see our painstaking efforts. Due to lack of security, insurance and proper display facilities, the pieces shown below have been secured in this safe."
The letter was signed by Bill Seely, Lawrence, Glenice Matthews, Perth, Australia, Grace Carmody, Lawrence and Ron Hinton.
The students, who are studying jewelry making and silver-smithing, said yesterday that they were concerned with the safety of their tools.
"There are two doors to the gallery and both of them are open." Seeley, who organized the display, said. "A person could walk in past the security guard, take something, and leave through the other door."
ALTHOUGH THERE is a security guard on duty while the gallery is open, the students said, valuable material goes into their work, and they are constantly looking for safety.
The letter says, "No artist should have to risk their investment of both time and creativity to chance."
There is no alarm system in the gallery and the hinges on the doors leading to the gallery are on the outside, making the doors susceptible to burglaries. Seeeley said. The students said they wanted these problems corrected.
PETER THOMPSON, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts,
should be advised with the students, but money was in short supply.
"I want to do it," he said. "I can't spend the money on that, however, until other priorities are complete.
"I have enough other problems in this building that affect the daily work of students that I can's spend what money is available on."
Thompson said the renovation of Fowler Hall, which will be used for classrooms, was the priority.
He added, however, that he had received cost estimates on an alarm system and hoped money would be allocated for it by July 1.
An extensive alarm system had been planned for the building, but
almost $1 million had to be cut from the plan, including money for the alarm system, because of limited funds. Thomson said.
because of limited time," Thompson said.
"We cut almost everything that we didn't need to teach our classes" , he said.
We were told that a team of engineers had to look at the hinges on the outside of the doors and brought the matter up with the contractor who built the building. He said he was assured that, because the hinges are made from steel, they were very durable.
Graduate students in the school are required to do an exhibit of their thesis work. Since the gallery opened last May, the school has encouraged them to exhibit in the gallery, Seeley said.
Art protests lack of security
The students said they also were concerned about the lack of display cases for their work.
A CARNET shop is being installed in Fowler as part of the renovation project. The school intends to build its own cases when renovation is completed.
"We have to put off almost all of our specialty furniture until the shop is done," Thompson said.
He added that a full-time cabinet marker was on the staff and by building the cases, the school would save 20 percent of the cost of
The cases probably will be available within two years, Thompson said.
Insurance for works on display also is important, Seeley said. He two examples of work that was damaged in the gallery this year were a large painting and a large mosaic.
A PIECE of work by Craig Holt, Bloomington, Ill., graduate student, was damaged yesterday in the gallery. Holt said that he was not too concerned about the situation, but that he sympathized with the jewelers because of the nature of their work.
State money cannot be used to mount University property. Because of this, Thompson said, it is difficult to find money for in-
Thornton said the exhibit on display during the opening of the Visual Arts Center was insured with money provided by the KUPEA Association.
"If we were to insure the gallery all the time, we would have to find a source of funding that would be put in the Endowment Association," he said. "Frankly, in the foreseeable future, I don't think we will insure faculty and student shows."
"If we have an alarm system on when the gallery is closed and a guard in there when it's open, I would feel it was pretty safe."