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Friday, September 29,1978
University Daily Kansan
KU leads state in research funds
Bv ANNE IVEY
Staff Reporter
A large graduate student program is the reason the University of Kansas receives more research funding than other state universities, according to an associate dean for the office of research administration.
"Modern research cannot realistically be done without graduate students who spend a great deal of time and effort on them," Robert C. Bearan, the associate dean, said.
The University received nearly $13 million in research funds last year. More than $2 million was spent on graduate student salaries, Bearsse said.
Bearse said research benefited everyone at the University. In a department where research is conducted, students are working to learn more about the subject they are teaching.
"THE BUREAU of Child Research receives the highest amount of money at KU—about $5 million each year," Bearse said.
Biological sciences, engineering and
biomedicine are the next in line in money received.
To receive research funds, faculty members write proposal applications for funds, which include the overhead expenditures of graduate student salaries, time spent by professors and chemical and material cost.
The office of research administration oversees these applications to help improve the quality of the research.
"If an application is well thought out, the professor has a higher chance of receiving feedback."
By overseeing the applications, the office insures that the university is not a member of the database.
we make sure the professor is not putting unreasonable demands on the Inquiry Unit.
KU COULD receive more funds if more applications were made, Bearne said. KU has a 30 percent acceptance rate for application from most universities have a 20 percent rate.
Applications usually are turned down either because research is not needed in a field or because a job is more suited to it.
many applications for the amount of funds available.
"Inflation hurts research more than any other area, but the University administration has recognized the need for research," Bearse said.
Funding this year is expected to be 23 percent more than last year. However, inflation has caused prices of materials needed in research to increase by 25 to 40 percent, depending on the material, Bearse said.
Three types of research funds exist at KU: fellowships, grants and contracts.
individual students apply for and receive fellowships, Bearsay said.
FACULTY MEMBERS make grant application that will apply to the type of application that will be conducted.
"There is room for expansion and change in research in the grant funds,"
Contracts specify what steps will be made in conducting the research. Bearse said the University was legally bound by contract that required the terms of the contract were not followed.
CIA says new oil fields unlikely
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - A CIA-sponsored report on oil says the world will have to depend on fields already discovered in the Permian region to yield an significant new sources.
The report by the Rand Corp. said there was currently about a 60-to-90 year supply of petroleum if the level of consumption did not increase.
That supply, however, would run out in 30 to 40 hours and consumed continued competition at part level.
"We'll get more oil out of fields that we know are there than we will out of future
discoveries" said Rand Corp. researcher Richard Nehring, who authored the study released yesterday.
FUTURE OIL discoveries will have to come "from fields discovered in expensive environments, from fields with lower well productivity, from smaller fields, or from the application of secondary and enhanced recovery." he said.
Nehring said the best chances for future discoveries were in the Mideast, Mexico, Alaska, Venezuela, the North Sea, Siberia and China.
THE REPORT by the Rand Corporation, he said, "is useful for identifying the patterns of world oil distribution and it is useful in the CIA's work, too, trying to look down at oil prices and report on its exclusion essentially with other studies of the world petroleum supply.
Nehring said that 75 to 88 percent of the world's future oil supply would come from increased recovery from known fields. More than half of that oil is contained in "supergiant" big barrels or more and "giant" 500 million barrels or more fields, he said.
Collection agency tracks students
Staff Renorter
Bv CAITLIN GOODWIN
The University has ways of finding them.
Students who are considering leaving the institution without repaying their loans could be requested.
Last year, about 12 percent of the KU students who took out loans defaulted on those loans, *Midnight Force*, of the National Direct Student Loans office, said. She said a student had defaulted if he failed to repay his loan 120 days after the deadline.
The University has ways of finding them. The North American Credit Service, a Kansas City, Kan., collection agency, searches for student debtors and either hands them over to the University or collects the money themselves for one-third of the debt, Denise Bzerlin, customer service representative, said yesterday.
She said the agency was the world's largest employer and its staff merry Dan 1,000 universities besieged.
THE AGENCY uses different channels it has developed to find the student. It contacts
persons from a list of references, such as employers, police and school officials.
Berlin said the firm found about 40 percent of all the debtors it was hired to
Once the student is found, the agency sends the form to get the money. The agency puts a fee on the money.
"We let them know that delinquency can be eliminated," she said.
However, 50 to 60 percent of the students do not pay, she said.
When a student does not pay, the National Direct Student Loans Fund a bursars the cost,
Debt collection agencies must follow the guidelines set by the Federal Debt Collection Practice Act, passed March 10, 1978, Howard Wheeler, president of Berlin-Wheeler Inc., collection agency, in Topeka, said.
His clients primarily are members of the medical community, he said, and include individuals with chronic illness.
It a client does not receive payment for a bill after five or six months, the case will be
assigned to the collection agency, who then notifies the debtor of his overdue bill.
If the debtor does not dispute the bill, the collection agency tries to work out a solution.
IF THE problem cannot be solved, the agency will not pursue the matter. Most agencies are paid a percentage of the collected money. If the debt is uncollectable, it is not worth the time or the effort to continue efforts to collect, Wheeler said.
Wheeler said that his agency was successful in less than 50 percent of the cases. More than 50 percent of the debtors are not able to be solved cannot be solved or are bankrupt, he said.
"A lot of people pay their bills because we exist," he said. "We try to be fair, but the system is wrong."
McNown said Bemin was part of Nigeria's program to strengthen itself before its oil war.
Oil has increased Nigeria's yearly per
McNown, who toured Nigeria's 13 universities in 1976, spoke to about 30 engineering students and faculty members KU had entered the exchange program.
Artist to seek display site
Museum officials said they hoped Irwin would agree to install a work in Spencer. He will be looking at several possible sites around the campus.
One of Irwin's installations is a black painting of the intersection of 8th avenue and 42nd street in mid-town Manhattan, N.Y. Hennessy said.
Irwin's art, according to Bill Hennessy, a curator at Spencer and an associate professor of art history, "uses something familiar and obvious and makes you laugh."
Ank Wilhk, assistant to the director for museum development at Spencer, said Irwin's art and conceptual art in general—was a specific idea for specific space.
"After installation in a gallery, the work can't be moved to another gallery." Wiklund said. "The only record will be photographs."
"we hope he will be attracted to a space at
our museum want to fill it," Carl Shumke,
museum director
The University of Benin in Nigeria established an exchange program with the University of Kansas principally because of KU's strong petroleum engineering program, John McNown, professor of civil engineering, said.
If Iwrn agrees to an installation of his work at KU, Student Union Activities will help finance the project, Chris Kahler, SUA programs adviser, said.
Bern is near Nigeria's Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries oil fields in Northwest Africa.
Irwain's works have appeared in galleries in the United States, Europe, Australia and China.
"Irwin's art can change the whole dynamics or a room," Hennessee said. "it takes a great deal of thought and perception of everything around you. He proves that art doesn't always have to be a precious thing hanging on a museum wall."
Robert twint, an eminent artist from Los Angeles, will be at the University of Kansas Monday to speak at the Helen Foresman Museum in Chicago for possible sites for an installation of his art.
Irvin will speak at 3 p.m. Monday in the
Spencer Museum auditorium.
capita income from about $300 to about $500,
he said and Nigerians have invested the difference in education.
In the past three years Nigeria has established seven new universities. Benin was the last university to be built before the seven new ones.
McNown said initial exchanges between the two universities would involve faculty members and student exchanges would follow in several years.
Last year Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, visited Benin. But McNown said the exchange program that resulted from his visit and the university's visit to Benin's vice chancellor was not a contract.
"ITS A memorandum of agreement," he said. "But it will allow a lasting, effective relationship and one that could not be breached by such individual saffronicals and fellowships."
Bemin began as a technical institute, McNown said, but during its rapid seventeen year development it became a science and biological institute and later a university.
The focus of the exchange will be engineering, but McNawn said Benin also was interested in exchanges between business, music and art departments.
Although Benil will be borrowing some of his instructors, MeNown said, KU also will be borrowing a few.
KU-Nigeria exchange set
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