University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, November 28. 1978
New fine rules proposed
By CAROL BEIER Staff Renorter
Careless library patrons may find a "sledgehammer at the end of the rainbow" if a proposed library lending code is approved by the administration.
Cliff Hake, circulation librarian, said recently that the proposed lending code should provide borrowers with every chance to obtain materials without paying overdue fines.
Under the new system, borrowers would be able to return library materials until the sixth day they are overdue without any penalty. After that time, the borrower would
be charged a minimum of $10, and his library privileges would be suspended.
Also, the loan period for students would be lengthened from three to four weeks. The faculty loan period would still be four months.
UNDER THE PRESENT system,
overdue books accrue a fine of 25 cents a day.
If the book is returned before the fifth
day overdue, no fine is charged. If it is not
paid within five days, it will be $1. The
borrower is not told that this book is
overdue until two weeks after the due date.
Grant to aid minority journalists
"Under the proposed system," Haka said, "you will receive three notices before you ever owe a cent. That is a key improvement."
The newspaper Fund Inc. has given a KU professor $35,000 in grants for two journalism programs, one for minority students and one for high school students.
The professor, Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism, has been consulting students for the first two programs, a three-week training course to prepare 10 minority students for editing jobs
"The emphasis is on putting more minorities in desk jobs and eventually getting employees to believe Adams said. "There are few minority members in reporting jobs and even fewer in management jobs. . . This program will give managers the ability to increase the pool of minorities in journalism."
AFTER COMPLETING the training course, participants will be placed in newspaper jobs at regular starting salaries. At the end of the summer, they will receive
$1,000 scholarships to continue journalism training at a university.
The first notice that a book is overdue would be sent out 15 days after the due date. After another 15 days, a second notice, "a potential for a lost item bill," would be sent.
Adams received $20,000 to direct and teach the course, which will be conducted at the American Newspaper Publishers Association headquarters in Easton, Pa.
The program is open to graduate students and graduating seniors. Persons with journalism or liberal arts backgrounds are eligible to apply.
Fifty days after the due date, the borrower would be sent a lost item bill and a library privilege suspension notice. If the borrower did not return the library material he would be moved receiving this notice, he would be charged a minimum of $10 and lose his library privileges.
ADAMS ALSO RECETVED $15,000 to direct a continuing program of summer urban journalism workshops for high school students interested in journalism.
IF THE LIBRARY chooses to reorder the overdue material, the borrower would be charged the price of replacement, in addition to the $10.
Haka said student abuses of check out privileges made up the largest portion of the problem, but holds on student records at school and provided them to pay fines and return materials.
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HOWEVER, THE SUSPENSION of library privileges would be the only effective penalty for abuses by faculty members, Haka said. Although the library makes every effort to collect fines of faculty who have not been particularly successful, he said.
The proposed lending code was written by the library staff and has been submitted to Ron Calgain, vice chancellor for academic research at McGraw-Hill, who approved the Senate Libraries Committee.
If approved by the administration, the code would go into effect when the library converts its circulation system to a more streamlined schedule arranged for installation in August.
Ride To School?
Students who are temporally or permanently disabled and who can't use the bus may need an alternative. A reliable door-to-door system is being considered for the winter months.
If you need a ride to school, we need information from you. Please contact the:
Student Assistance Center
235 Strong Hall
TONIGHT
864-4064
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Leading a discussion entitled
HONORING OUR MOTHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS
8:00 p.m. in the National Room, Kansas Union
refreshments served after discussion
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Nov. 28, 29, 30
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CETA funding at KU in doubt
For two workers employed by the University of Kansas under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, a reduction last week in funds for federally financed public service programs could be bad news.
By PHILIP GARCIA
Wayne Spellman, director of personnel, transactions and records, said he was not certain of the status of two University CETA employees because funds for their wages had not been secured from the state CETA office.
Staff Reporter
Although the state was awarded $19.45 million last week to fund CETA programs for fiscal 1979, which began Oct. 1, there was a 50 percent reduction in the amount of money available for CETA programs.
"THERE ARE two CETA企业 that were under the assumption they would get a new CETA grant, but they're fast finding out the funding has not appeared," Spellman said. "I don't understand what the status of the two is. It's kind of a problem."
Spellman declined to identify the employees or which department they worked in.
Jim Murray, public information officer for the state CEFA office in Topeka, said funds from the new allocation were being
Murray said CETA funds were frozen in September. Some CETA employees then had to have their salaries funded through
other sources. Others were returned later to CETA funding after Congress approved funds to pay for salaries of those people hired
"We will be able to refer more than 20 positions immediately," Cape said. "When all the funds come through, more than 60 of them may also be available."
THOSE PERSONS who were hired before the freeze and who still contracts will be naid by CEPTA funds.
Evelyn Cape, Douglas County CETA interviewer, said there are about 30 people in the county hardened by CETA but, with the new program, have no need to.
Kevin Burt, personnel director for the city of Lawrence, said there were seven employees hired by the city with CETA funds to train workers.
"We just have verbal assurance at this time," he said. But we're not afraid of losing the current seven."
CEFTA employees on campus have worked in various departments, such as the Audio-Reader and the department of speech
AT ONE time, Burd said, the city employed 15 CEFA workers, but the city has hired some on a permanent basis and others have been hired on a contract basis.
In Lawrence, CETA employees have worked in the city planning department, parks and recreation department and in other offices ranging from the Lawrence Arts Center to the Consumer Affairs Association.
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PHYSICAL
THERAPY
STUDENTS . .
A meeting for all interested physical therapy students will be:
Thursday, Nov. 30 at 7:00 p.m. In Watkins Hospital Cafeteria
There will be a guest speaker and we will be discussing the procedure used for interviewing prospective students at the Med Center.
PLEASE COME!!
Funded by Student Activity Fee.
SUA PRESENTE
lotte goslar pantomime circus AT THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE
A RARE COMBINATION OF DANCE, HUMOR. AND MIME.
PUBLIC $3.75
STUDENTS $2.75
Mode possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts & The Kansas Arts Commission
DEC.2 8 PM
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THE CHARLIE BAND DANIELS
The South's Gonna Do It Again!
Thursday December 7,1978 8:00 P.M. Hoch Auditorium
$6. and $7./ $5.50 and $6.50 for Students (before Dec. 1)
Tickets available at the SUA Box Office. Also at Kief's, Caper's in K.C. The Record Store in Manhattan. Liberty Sound in St Joseph, Mother Earth in Topeka. Tiger's, and David's in Emporia.
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