Profs not always paid most
Staff Renarter
By JAKE THOMPSON
When William P. Smith, professor of electrical engineering, began teaching as an assistant professor at the University of Kansas in 1600, his nine-month salary was $4,500.
Although times have changed since then, some teachers still earn less than the skilled workers who paint, repair plumbing and keep electrical current flowing in the University.
Marna Goldstein, assistant professor of design, has the distinction of being the lowest-paid assistant professor at KU, although she has earned the highest degree available in her field.
In addition, her nine-month salary, $21,750, is less than the salaries of at least seven painters, plumbers and electricians who work for KU facilities operations.
"IN MY mind, they are not making more," she said recently. "You can't compare because I'm not working the same hours. In actual teaching and classwork, I spent 80 hours a week at committee work and other things, it's much more than that."
"But if you're a serious artist, there isn't any time when you're not working toward your profession."
THE SEVEN have worked for the University between 15 and 29 years; Goldstein, who holds a master of fine arts degree from California College of Arts and Crafts, has been employed at KU for two years.
Goldstein said she enjoyed the freedoms of an academic career as opposed to a maintenance worker 40-hour week.
"Still, the Fine Arts School is grossly underpaid when compared to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or any of the professional schools," Goldstein said. "I guess they think artists are a dime a dozen."
OTHER INSTRUCTORS at the University who earn less than the seven selected maintenance workers include at
Although they are required to hold a doctorate in mathematics, and have received dissertation con-
fermentals, they still gelatinate.
One instructor who said he did not mind that some maintenance workers earn more than he does was James Krevitt, a mathematics instructor who has been teaching at KU for two years.
"I don't mind at all," Krevitt said. "I knew exactly what salaries were available when I went into graduate school. I probably make a better teacher than a maintenance worker. Teachings use more of my skills."
"IM NOT in this for the money because it's well known there's little available," he said. "I do get other sorts of
He said his students provided satisfaction because of their dedication.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the mathematics department, and instructors were usually no more than 20 students.
"His salary is determined in agreement with the dean of the school, Robert Cobb," Himmlerberg said. Cobb is the chief financial officer at the university.
According to the 1979 budget, most university professors annually earn more than maintenance workers by several percent.
THE TOP paid general maintenance workers earn about
Salary increases for University professors, assistant professors, associate professors and instructors are raised. Salaries for teaching and administrative salaries are raised in accordance with the State Service Plan, Wayne Spellman, director of personnel
$13,000; the top paid University professor earns about
$55,000.
Those facilities operations' employees with the highest salaries have been at the University the longest and have the most experience.
One assistant professor who said a cost of living increase would help him keep up with rising costs was Thomas Baird, who served as a professor at the University.
"I have run far behind the inflation rate in recent years," Reilly said. "From a personal view, I am not very happy with it. I am aware I don't get paid a very high salary, but I am aware that the maintenance people do to receive their salaries."
REILLY RECEIVED his doctorate in psychology from KU in 1966 and began full-time teaching then. He said he worked about six summers to supplement his nine-month salary of $13,650.
With the summer work he said he could earn about $15,000 annually.
He said he did not think he was adequately paid, in view of the number of years he had worked for KU and his financial situation.
The morit system and the civil service system ensure that no University professor or maintenance worker at KU works in an office without a morit system.
For a single person living in a non-rural area, an annual income of $3.149 is considered to be on the edges of the poverty level. For a family of four living in a farm area, an annual income of $4,200 is considered to be on the poverty level.
KANSAN
Vol. 89, No. 62
Tuesday, November 21. 1978
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
AAUP to talk with Shankel
Staff Reporter
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Representatives of the KU Association of American University Professors will meet today with Del Shankel, executive vice president of the university's controversial administrative decisions.
Ambrose Saricks, chairman of AUAP, said yesterday that members of AUAP's executive committee would talk to Shanklet about University's decisions on the following:
- The University's handling of the cancellation of a Nazi memorabilia last gusts
- The selection of a speaker for the Nov. 4 higher education banquet, Jonathan Kozol, an American educator who has written several controversial works, was originally invited to speak at the Nov. 4 banquet. However, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes canceled the invitation and rescheduled for Nov. 3., saying Kozel was not well known.
- A decision to divide the art library between its present location, Watson
Library, and the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. Several faculty members protested the division, but Shankel said the University had made a commitment to the department of art history and to donors to build a divided library.
SARICKS SAID the committee had submitted a resolution to Stankel one-and-a-half years ago.
"What I'm trying to do is get the information that I think we don't have fully yet before we begin to argue in the public press." he said.
Shankel wrote an open letter to the University last week explaining the administration's reaction on the cancellation of a spring semester in the circle. The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Germany."
Sanktel he said he was responsible for the exhibit's opening, scheduled for April 20.
However, Car Leiban, associate professor of East Asian studies, and Normer Forer, associate professor of American Studies, both are affiliated with the U.S.
"I really think Shankel owes the truth to the total University community and I hope it's not only Jewish people who are concerned with discrimination, stereotyping and anti-Semitism."
asked Shankel to write the letter, said his response did not address the proper issues
"We don't want to dictate a position to be taken by any administrator." Forer said, "but this had very little contact with the facts.
Shankel said in his letter that the administration canceled the opening of the exhibit because it was decided the opening "would be offensive to many individuals in the University community, including both Jewish and non-Jewish colleagues."
In his letter, Shankt also said the opening was canceled because a news article that appeared in the Kansas City Times the day the exhbition in Miami misrepresented the event and HAUSFELD.
He also said the exultant's opening had been postponed several times and its final date unravelled.
including Adolph Hitler's birthday, the beginning of the Passover religious holidays and the completion of the television film, "Holocaust."
Considering the circumstances surrounding the scheduled opening of the exhibit, Shankel told the decision was made in order to be out of effect upon the decision was repaired.
LEBAN AND FORER say that Jewish members of the University were blamed for pressuring the administration into cancelling the exhibit's opening.
"I think they used the Jewish issue as a scapeooting technique." Forer said.
Leban said, "I would hope that the executive vice chancellor would have learned that you don't make individuals and grounds scapegoats for your actions."
Shankel said the letter would be his final response to the issue of the opening's canvass.
"As far as I'm concerned, that's about all I can do," he said. "I guess the could ask, 'What are you going to do?'
See AAUP back page
Bia Russian
Vladimir Taekchenko, 7-foot-4 center for the Russian hawks, towered over KU guard Brad Sanders (34) and the rest of the Jayhawks in last night's game between the two teams in Allen Field House. Taekchenko scored 12 points in the Russians' 87-84 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers, three of their three rebounds and blocked only three KU shots. See another photo, story page eight.
Classes at the University of Kansas will end at 5 p.m. today and resume at 7 a.m. Nov. 27.
This is the last issue of the University Daily Kansan before the holiday break. Regular publication will resume Nov. 28.
Watson Library will be open until 5 tonight and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Friday. The library will be open from noon to midnight Sunday.
All residence halls except GSP-Corbin will remain open.
OTHER BUILDING hours are:
Robinson Gymnasium; open until 10
tonight and tomorrow, closed Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, open from 1 p.m. to
10:30 p.m. Sunday.
Allen Field House: open Sunday 1 p.m.
to 10 p.m.
Watkins Hospital; open 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for 10, tomorow,
Friday and Saturday, emergencies only Thursday and Sunday.
Kansas Union: bookstore open 8:30 to 10 p.m. tomorrow. dell open 11 a.m to 1 p.m. tomorrow, cafeteria open 7 a.m to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday branch from
Computer Services Facility: open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow through Sunday, time sharing will be available as
Wescoe Terrace: open 7 a.m. to 5 p..m.
tomorrow.
New Green Hall: open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
tomorrow.
New Green Library: open tonight until midnight, $ a.m. to $ p.m. tomorrow and Saturday, 11 a.m. to midnight on Sunday.
Legal Services may lose $9,135
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
The proposed Legal Services Program may lose $9,135 in funding because an error of 25 cents a student was made in a bill that would revise the 1979-80 Student Senate Revenue Code.
Craig Templeton, Senate administrative assistant, said yesterday that the mistake would be corrected by reducing
"We're just going to go ahead and lower it," he said. "It was just a mathematical error. The Senat can amend it if we want."
The bill, if passed, would mean the Legal Services program would lose about $9,135 in funding by reducing its staff.
Laurence Rose, associate professor of law and a member of the Legal Services Governing Board, said the cut would have limited the number of people who could be insured.
"I'M SURE we'd cut staff as opposed to things," he said.
"What we had under the $13 allocation was strictly a burea bone budges, so there is no question that services would be
The reason for the mistake, Templeton said, was an error in redistributing money left over when the women's health department had run out of funds.
THE REVENUE code provides funding for campus organizations through distribution of an $11.10 student
Templeton said the $1.50 women's athletics activity fee was cut, the money was redistributed so that KJHKE-FM received 50 cents; the Graduate Student Council received 15 cents; the University Chamber Series received 10 cents; and a Legal Services reserve fund received 75 cents.
This year, when the code was revised, the entire .10 was designated to fund the Legal Services program. However, only JKH was cut to its original allocation; the allocation for the Graduate Student Council and the Chamber Series
remained the same, leaving the code 25 cents over the budget.
Because it would be difficult to withdraw funding from either the Graduate Student Council or the Chamber Series now, Templeton said, the Legal Services allocation will be cut by 25 cents.
The Legal Services program is scheduled to go into effect in January 1979. It will provide pre-paid legal services to
The revised revenue code will go before the Senate for approval at the next meeting, Nov. 29.
Rose said he did not know whether the decision would be appealed.
"I don't know who would do the work on it," he said. "It's Harper's baby, (Mike) Harger, student body president) and I assume that he and Bob Rocha, chairman of the governing board, would try to restore the 25 cents.
"It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, though. Someone else will have to be cut."
Birth control product's claims questioned
By DAN WINTER
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The package proclaims the product is highly reliable and easy to use with no side effects. Each of the items inside is individually wrapped and easy to carry.
Unlike some of the other widely used birth con-
 devices, Encare Ovalis can be purchased over the drug store counter for $3.85 for a box of 12. No prescription is needed.
The product is called the Encare Oval, one of the newest devices on the birth control market.
There may be a problem, however. In May 1978, the Federal Food and Drug Administration ordered Eaton-Merz Company of Norwich, N.Y., the distributor of Encare, to rescind some of its advenues. The product was overpromoted and based the charge on the results of studies done on Encare in West Germany.
WILLIAM CAMERON, a University of Kansas Medical Center gynecologist, has been conducting research for the past 10 months to substantiate the claims of Medi-OrzMer.
Citing the West Germany study, the company advertised that 267 physicians recommended Encare for cancer patients.
pregnancy rate for women who used Encare for one year was less than one for every 100 women.
In a newsletter送 to physicians and other health care specialists across the nation, the FDA warned that "the 99 percent efficacy claims for the Encare Oval has led to an inflated popular opinion and expectation of the product and that its failure rate is probably higher than 1 percent."
The FDA issued a release in July saying the West German study was poorly constructed and
That statistic was printed on the package and used in publicity for Encare, Cameron said, and it led to the statement that the device was 98 percent effective in preventing pregnancy.
LORENA MEYERS, consumer affairs officer for the FDA's Kansas City district, said the FDA was aware that the agency were unsupported and therefore created a health risk, particularly to women whose pregnancy insurance was not available.
The FDA demanded that Eaton-Merz remove a statement from its package that calls Encare a "new
Donald Kennedy, FDA commissioner, said,
"Encore OVars appear to be popular on college
campuses and among teen-agers. It's urgent that these groups have the most reliable information about contraception, especially those available to them over the counter."
Herb Farber of Farber and Associates, a New York public relations firm that is promoting Encare, would
*WE are just saying it’s a highly effective product but we don’t point the FIA to us and now they’ve backed us*.
Cameron is one of 29 gynecologists in the nation, all supported by Eaton-Merz, who are using their patients as research subjects for studies about Encares.
In the research, he said, the physicians are trying to accumulate enough data from women who use it.
Cameron gives each of his patients a free box of Encares. He asks them to make a calendar showing each time they use it and he asks that they check with him monthly.
Many of the women in the study stop using Encare, he said, because they have never used a barrier form of contraception before and are uncomfortable with it.
CAMERON SAID he thought Encare was un-
doubly the easiest of all spermicide contraceptives to use.
Cameron said another reason some of the women stopped using Encure was that there had, "been a lot of people."
Martin Wollman, director of health services at Watkins Hospital, said, "We don't recommend the
Use Incease, a woman inserts the small oval ovate her vagina 10 minutes before intercourse. After that time, Incease effervesces. When she inserts the vagina, she forms a barrier in front of the entrance to the uterus. When sperm cells in contact with Incease, a chemical damages the sperm before it has a chance to fertilize
CAMERON SAID the bad publicity was in the form of the FDA report and articles in several women's magazines. Neither the report nor the articles quoted a source and there are no studies to refute the West
"We're not claiming a 100 percent success rate nor are we trying to prove that 1 percent is possible," he said. "We are trying to establish if the pregnancies of our nurses are a result of patient failure or method failure."
Encare Oval widely because it's not as effective as the study shows."
Wollmann said that for complete effectiveness, the directions must be followed correctly. He also said there had been complaints of local allergic reactions among users of Encare.
A pharmacist at the downtown Raney Drug Store. 921 Massachusetts St., said the Encare Ovals were selling better than any other spermicidal foams and jellies at the three Raney's stores in Lawrence.
"If it is used properly, it can be quite effective," the pharmacist, who declined to identify herself, said. "It's not as good as the pill, but I think it's better than an intruder device."
Lorna Grunz, director of the student assistance center, said she thought most people seeking birth control information from her office did not use Encare.
"We don't recommend any one thing to anyone." Grunz said. "We try to help people realize the needs of others."
Birth control information and advice is available to KU students at Watkins and through the Human Sexuality Network by calling KU information or Headquarters at 841-2345.