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Thursday, October 26, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Workers to continue grievances
Saying they are dissatisfied with resolutions made by the city grievance board this week, two utilities department workers plan to continue the grievance process against Gene Vogt, director of utilities.
Phil Bierla, one of the workers, said he had taken his grievance of improper job promotion by oog to Buffur Watson, city attorney. "He hope that it would be resolved by Watson."
George Blevins, the other worker, said he was going to take his grievance of Vogt's age discrimination in hiring to Watson today.
The board this week found that Vogt had discriminated against Blevins because of Blevins' age. The resolution of Blevins' grievance was that Vogt agree not to attend meetings with the management staff hold regular monthly meetings with workers.
against him, but said he was satisfied with the resolutions made by the board.
The resolution for Bieria's complaint was that his grievance be resolved at the hearing.
The workers had asked that Vogt be reprimanded and that the city manager be prosecuted.
city was trying to ignore the seriousness of their grievances.
"I'm disafflicted. It's like going back to step one," Biera said, alluding to the workers' unsuccessful attempt to restrain their grievances at the management-labor
leave
The workers went to the grievance board when that failed.
Bleivens and Biera said they were dissatisfied because they thought the
roger Siegel, representing the workers,
said yesterday that he had mailed a letter
to Mayor Donald Bins requesting that the city recognize the proposed union.
A representative of the proposed Uilities Department Workers Union is hopeful that the city will recognize the union if it is formed.
Union hopes for city recognition
Binns, however, said he had not received
Blevins said his grievance involved Vogt breaking a federal law against age discrimination. He said if he did not get a satisfactory resolution, he might take the grievance to the Kansas Department of Human Resources. Blevins said, however, that he hoped it would not have to go that far.
Siegel said that he wanted to meet with city officials, and added that he expected the mayor to respond.
the letter and did not think the city would recognize the union because it had not been issued.
"They have a right to form a union"
"The problem is whether the city will recognize it."
Binns did say, however, that if Sigel requested a public hearing before the city commissioners, the request probably would be granted.
without recognition from the city, Siegal
said, the union would not have the power that usually are associated with unions.
workers said they had considered forming a union because of recent grievance problems with the city. In order to be represented by the city in the future, they must form a union now.
Siegel said that after the issue went before the commissioners he would meet with the workers to decide whether they still wanted to form the union.
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timed the conversation with her," Frazier said.
The establishment of a review board to monitor Kansan practices, he said, would just be another "bureaucratic process" to go through before complaints got to him.
"We already have a Kansan Board that includes the chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance."
School of Journalism and two faculty members," he said.
Frazier said that the board set financial policy for the Kansan, but that any editorial committee would have to approve it.
"But a good newspaper with good reporters aggressively pursuing the facts is never a very comfortable thing to have. It is not. I think we have a such newspaper."
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COMPLAINTS BY Kaufman that a smaller percentage of the Kansan was used for campus-related news were unfounded, Fratier said.
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During the past week, he said, 20 percent of the total news space was wire service news, similar to the amount in past semesters.
he thought a student newspaper should run more campus-related news and that the Kansan had been reducing the amount of such recently.
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Only the Consumer Affairs Association had an amendment made to the committee's recommendation of $1,233 to cover increases and reprinting of a housing handbook.
"Professional papers, as a whole, run about 70 percent advertising," Frazier said. "The comparison of the Kansan to professional newspapers and many other college papers shows that we run an over whelming percentage of local news."
However, only 35 percent of the total
amount is covered because 65 percent
is used for advertising.
The Senate also passed legislation on three bills presented last night.
"We're often criticized for not having enough wire service news."
The first, supplementary allocations of groups that already had been funded by the Senate, went through with all but one committee recommendation approved.
THE FINANCE and Auditing Committee had recommended that the 17 groups be funded a total of $9,093.80 after hearing budget requests several weeks ago.
But Steve Young, journalism senator,
made an amendment that salary increases
be changed from $83 to the $937.44 that the
group had originally requested.
The second piece of legislation was approval by the Senate of previously allocated Senate funds for use in a merger of the university community office and the caroused office.
THE MERGER would prevent duplication of services, representatives said, and figures showed that the companies serviced more students than the campus office.
That would cover a $100 a month increase for the new director of the campus office, which is the amount she was paid before she moved from the community office.
The Senate also approved a bill that would provide $2,545 to the Graduate Student Council for publication of a graduate newspaper.
The funds previously had been provided by the Senate to the graduate council for fiscal 1978, but had not been used that year, the bill said.
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Picture fantomime
Sherrill Museum, a docent at the Helen Foresman Spencer Bushel of Art, left, takes a tour group of Glate fourth graders
through the second floor of the museum. Part of the tour in
which you visit is to right, Tjady Bamsveld, Rusty Kay and Elizabeth Dye seemed to
be doing something very interesting.
Museum tours enchant children
Bv CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
The tapestry-lined gallery is hushed. Two grand pianos stand at one end of the dark marble floor.
Suddenly, a group of children arrive and the sober museum connects all.
"ins is far out," one wide-eyed young visitor said upon entering the gallery.
They offer outspoken opinions on three faces in a painting that depicts the Biblical story of the beheaded of John the Baptist.
"She's young, he's old and he dead," one student declared,
summarizing the painting.
This was the scene yesterday during a visit by sixth graders from the Riverside School District Lakeview Road, to the Museum of Art, Masonville.
The students toured the museum by playing a series of games. During their stay, they adopted the positions of sculptures and models.
NONE OF THE CHILDREN hesitated to flip down on the floor to get a better look at an art object. Nor did anyone want to leave at
"Let's come back at 3 o'clock." one student suggested.
The Riverside tour and similar visits are the second part of a two-part program to expose fifth, sixth and seventh grade Lawrence school children to the Spencer museum. This is done through an interactive exhibit, according to Dolo Brooking, director of museum education.
"We are trying to keep alive the imagination that is so important for problem-solving as adults," she said. "As we've gotten older, we've compensated for the loss by developing brainstorming techniques."
DOCENTS, MUSEUM volunteers whose title comes from the Latin word meaning "to teach," visit the classrooms of students planning a tour two days before the actual museum visit. Games play a large part in the classroom as well as in the gallery.
Because the children learn to enjoy a visit to the museum, they may make a habit of museum visits as they grow older. One Riverside girl said she would be back "if I can convince my mom to come."
to the elements and vocabulary of art. For example, they are urged to touch their own clothing to get a feel of texture and then use it as a guide for painting.
Sixth graders learn to apply these elements to describe different art objects. The students play a game in which they match different objects with similar form and then are asked to pretend that they have just been made members of the board of directors.
IN THE BOARD of directors game, the sixth graders choose a piece of art they will add to their imaginary collection. They are asked to support their choices and often up debating one another over which piece to change their minds once they had seen the original at the museum.
The seventh grade program is called "Space Inside Outside", and the students learn about architecture and environment. An optional follow-up packet for their teachers includes a walking tour of Lawrence that illustrates several different types of architecture in the neighborhood surrounding Central Junior High School, 1409 Massachusetts St.
SHERRILL BUSHELL, a doent for three years, escorted one room of the Riverside children.
For first sentence began, "Let's pretend . . ." And pretend they did.
superior to his best. One Riverside boy did his best to get a reaction from the man in the sculpture. He waved his hands in front of the glassy stare before attempting to strike up a friendly conversation.
Both the Oathe and Lawrence children were impressed with the Diane Hanson sculpture in the contemporary gallery titled "Couple Shopping." It depicts two characters so lifelike that one expects them to speak at any moment.
"If there, he said. 'What's you addid? One of his classmates seemed afraid he would get an answer."
the girls in the classroom seemed afraid to get away, because
"They get real, she said." "Those people are real, aren't they?"
IT IS THIS insight that must have prompted one sixth grader who had visited the museum to write:
"Art is grass, art is sky, art is even a tree, why art is me!"
"No student应 recorded that sentiment."
One Riverside student secrete a thesis that
"Pretty soon, my work of art's gonna be in here," he predicted
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Concerning the voluntary early retirement plan, Shankel said the Regents would seek authority from the Legislature to develop a plan.
Another area of preventive planning, statewide cooperation with other schools, will be used to "maintain enrollment levels at the University, to attract high-achieving students who are capable of completing our academic programs," Shankel said.
Cut out and save
In addition, to tighten the KU faculty, the letter said the University would require that the majority of new faculty be hired for positions that do not lead quickly to tenure. Those hired for positions leading to tenure have been asked to be attached to the administration, Shankai said.
THE ADMINISTRATION also has developed a 10-year enrollment forecast, the letter said, to determine the financial support by student fees.
Shankel said the financial exigency plan would apply only to KU and not to the other
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Candidates for Governor
Programs
THE GUIDELINES, which will be used by FacEx to develop a policy statement, included a method to determine which sabbatical leave candidates were "definitely" meritorious and which were "exceptionally" meritorious.
Candidates for the U.S.Senate
Candidates for 2nd Dist. Cong.
Candidates for Govenor
General guidelines for a new sabbatical leave policy were presented to FacEx after the SenEx meeting, but the committee delayed approval until its Nov. 8 meeting.
Airdate/Time
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43rd Dist.[Voqel&Supica]
The guidelines propose that each member of the University Sabbatical Leave Committee vote privately on whether a candidate should be considered definitely mentorious.
44th Dist.[Glover&Amison]
Oct. 30, 8:30p.m.
Oct. 31, 12:30 p.m.
45th Dist. [Whitenight&Solbach]
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