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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University Daily KANSAN
KU Funding
84th Year, No. 70
Monday, December 10, 1973
A Look at Trends, Issues and Problems
Horace Greeley's exhortation to go West is still timely advice for faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin. The economic constraints of low salaries.
The Faculty: Money's the Issue
Bv KATHLEEN HODAK
A painter in the California system of an officer educated received in fiscal 1972 and was then more than an instructor at KU in fiscal 1974 and 817 more than an assistant
And a plumber in California that year received $7,032 more than a KU instructor this year. $4,085 more than a CUNY instructor. $6,232 more than an associate professor.
"Salary is a joke around here," says Lou Houston, associate professor of biochemistry. "It's embarrassing to mention what you're making to you when it matters at other colleges." Mr. say, My God, what are you doing there?"
"Td think most of the general public would like to look up to the faculty as the guardian of their child's education and that we would be worth a little more to them. But that's not true."
The truth is that faculty salaries at the University of Kansas rank strikingly low in comparison to other academic caliber and academic caliber.
Of the 23 publicly supported
members of the American Association of Universities, a group of the most prestigious universities, the University of Kansas ranks at the bottom of the pay scale. The average faculty salary at KU in fiscal 1972 lagged $2354, 14.6 per cent, behind average salaries in the 22 other institutions.
"You know you're being paid less than what you're worth. Am I supposed to harbor some lifelong affection for the University of Kansas? Like hell."
Grant Goodman, professor of history and president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), says that in the last few years he has seen students at the university with salaries among the KU faculty.
"Sure, I'm preoccupied with salary, and I'd rather not be," he says. "But we can't go on until can, but we are implicitly less enthusiastic than we might be if we thought we were getting the kinds of rewards which we believe our company owes."
Janet Sharistianan, acting assistant professor of English, says that even though she is single, her salary
this job, and so I don't compare myself to them."
Of the top 60 departments of English in the country, KU ranks at the bottom of the salary scale for every academic rank, according to Jim Steward's study. "I'm sure that hurts after a while if you're on the faculty, because the University pays a lot less than schools that are worth a lot less," he said. "With 50 of 60, we probably rank about 35." Some faculty members are finding it increasingly difficult to support a family on a University salary that doesn't adequately adjust to inflation, he says. Garee Mason assistant professor of
"Now I have to admit," Sharistanian says, "that I did live according to what people on the poverty line would consider an affluent standard for a child. I am the student of 10 years in college and graduate school in preparation for
The Students As Prices Rise, They See Fewer Movies, Seek Jobs
is barely sufficient. Faculty members in the department of English are among the lowest paid in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
But Harley's 24-hour-a-week job as a janitor went on top of a 23-hour-a-week class schedule. And he's considering a roommate for his single room in Joseph R. Pearson Hall to save money next semester.
Like many University of Kansas students, Colin Harley, Westfield, NJ, senior, had to get a job this spring because the rising cost of staving in school.
"A good deal of it has to do with the fee rises." Harley says.
Bv JIM KENDELL
From September 1970, when this year's seniors started school, to September 1973, consumer prices increased according to government figures.
For the last three semesters he's taken an average of 25 hours a semester and will finish school in three years.
Last summer he had two jobs waiting for him at home, but instead he took a job 24 miles from home because he could make more mon- rented transportation costs. He also plans to work during semester break.
Harley's reaction to rising costs has been more extreme than most, but perhaps he's an indication of how far a student can go.
Gary Mason, assistant professor of journalism, says it would be easier
As tuition clubs, inflation continues, loans become scarcer, and students are working harder and more carefully than they used to.
His brother will begin college next fall and Harley did not want his family to have to put two children through school at the same time.
In-state tuition at the University of Kansas climbed $43.50 or 19 per cent in the same period. Tuition for ten years would go up even more, $143.50 or 27 per cent.
Nancy Flx, Pierre, S.D. sophmore, for example, is taking 14 hours this semester, $3\frac{1}{2}$ fewer than last semester, so she can handle her classes and her 16-hour-a-week job at the Computer Center.
University officials agree that students in general are taking fewer hours a semester and that the trend may result from more students
Barbara Hlasky, Wichita senior and a costume design major, turned down a job in summer stock two years ago for a job as a waitress at
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Some students with jobs, like Larry Benton, Prairie Village junior, are looking for better jobs.
Both Benton, who works at a drive-in, and Fix plan to work hours other students won't want during semester break.
"You just grab up as many hours as you can if you're willing to work," saves Fix.
Kim Hunt, Shawnee Mission sophomore, says he doesn't want to take just 14 hours because he thinks he ought to "do something" with his
Summer jobs are important in financling college, and some students make sacrifices to get them.
Kansan Staff Photo by AL SWAINSTON
Some who aren't working feel an obligation to study hard so they don't think they're wasting time.
More students say that they would like to work over semester break, but can't find jobs.
Some students are going to college in Kansas because it costs too much in other states.
Michael J. Young Ponders Salary Problem
$1.60 an hour because she could make more money.
One way some out-of-state students are trying to cut costs is by meeting Kansas residency requirements.
The number of petitions for Kansas residence rose 65 per cent, from 294 to 359 in fall, according to William L. Kelly, associate dean of admissions and records. The number granted in petitions rose 51 per cent, from 265 to 309
Some of that sharp increase occurred because the age of majority was lowered to 18 in Kansas in sum-72, but economic factors contribute.
Phil Kleur, Lawrence graduate student, says he couldn't have come to KU this fall if he hadn't instate residency requirements.
Hidsay, for example, wanted to attend the North Carolina School of Arts, but came to KU because it's cheaper.
Although enrollment at KU's Lawrence campus has increased 4 times since 2013, out-of-state students has dropped 12 per cent and the number of Kansas students has increased 11 per cent. Office of Admissions and Records.
The slowed growth in enrollment recently reflects not only the declining number of high school graduates but also economic conditions.
Klever, who graduated from a small Iowa high school in 1969, says the number of graduates there going on to college each year has de-
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But Kissinger promised to stand by the allies despite the disagreements and proposed the development of a unified energy program to tackle an oil shortage he said would have developed even without the October war.
U. S. actions were as much in Western Europe's interest as the United States.
THE SPEECH WAS Kissinger's first to the council, which is holding a two-day team meeting. It was paraphrased for newsmen by U.S. officials who said the secretary emphasized that the alliance cornerstone of American foreign policy.
At one point, Foreign Minister Michel Jobert of France and Kissinger had a sharp disagreement over the issue. Jobbert said Europe should have been advised before President Nixon and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid Breshnev join forces to June on the prevention of nuclear war.
nissinger attempted in ms speeck,
however, to heal the wounds that deepened
when most of the allies separated them.
He was then called in for a stance
during the war and its aftermath.
KU 'Preachers' Put Faith In Bible
Israel says Syria has refused to turn over names of the 102 Israeli POWs held in Syria, and the International Red Cross has confirmed the use of them.
INFORMED DIPLOMATS reported that Kissinger disawarded any intention to keep Britain and France out of the Middle East peacemaking process. But he said they also told the NATO ministers both inside and outside Europe, including French representatives would complicate the peace talks due to begin in Geneva Dec. 18.
First, Kissinger listed a growing Soviet military force which he said was the primary reason for the search for detente. He also said upheaval in developing nations and a number of economic problems have an emergency than differences across the Atlantic.
nonimmune persons in the United States, who are not immune to the new coronavirus (COVID-19) or refused to deal with Syria at the Dec. 18 Geneva peace negotiations was a major factor in the outbreak.
He said differences between the United
States and Europe paled in comparison with
other areas of the world.
An Israeli refusal to negotiate with Syria would be a serious blow to chances for the success of the negotiations.
Congressional tax experts received the first documents of Nixon's tax returns.
The material Nixon released in disclosing his tax affairs confirmed that he paid about $20,000 in federal income taxes over the past four years and no state income taxes. He asked the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation to review the returns.
Gas retailers want Phase 4 controls lifted so prices can rise $ 1^{\circ} $ to $ 3^{\circ} $ a gallon.
"We are fighting for our survival," said Charles Binsted, president of the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers during a convention. He made his comment at the same time an industry publication told of rising gasoline prices.
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iay, December 11, 1973
Nixon Tapesitor Disclosed
aspirator E. Howard Hunt and so it said it would be no problem illus to buy the silence of the 1 Watergate defendants.
i newsmen Monday that rst were taking a second look a June 20, 1972 conversation
ed that the March 22 meeting of Watergate and the orate committee hearings on seven weeks later.
President and then-White
f staff H. R. Haldeman in an
arime what caused an 18-
last two weeks, Sirica heard what might have caused the ie 20 tape which was one of sed.
HINICAL EXFERTS had tape at a laboratory in New I returned it to the judge a week the weekend they asked sirica said, adding he hopes to vt by the end of the week.
into evidence at the court letter Jaworski wrote No. Fred Burhardt, White House
Jaworski asked for the June
The request for an injunction was made by Chester Davis, attorney for Summa Corp., a company controlled by billionaire Howard R. Hughes. The Senate committee has been taking testimony in closed sessions about a $100,000 cash contribution from Hughes to Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo, the President's close friend.
Dean has testified that a plan to offer executive clemency to Hunt was discussed during those two days. In a related development yesterday, a federal judge asked the Senate Watergate committee from questioning witnesses in closed sessions.
4 and tapes. He requested the tape of a meeting between 3:06 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on June 3 involving the President, Haldeman Milleiichan, then his domestic affairs adviser.
Bebo and the President have said the money, held in a Florida bank for nearly three years, later was returned.
ly SUZI SMITH
aven Staff Reporter
cking to Adjustulty Pay Increase
Tapes of telephone conversations on those two days between the President and Colson White.
HE ALSO ASKED for the tape of a meeting between 5:16 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. on June 4 between the President and Charles Johnson, then White House special counsel
I he couldn't say how much increase might be adjusted ved the budget.
here last night with student or class presidents from the res and universities.
lov. Robert Docking said last
ere were laid to be "some
adde in the 5 per cent salary
aculty at state schools that
ined at the state budget
month
that he was still "balancing against his demands." There choices that have to be made of learning, he said.
dent representatives agreed lary increases were the top r schools.
**Regents had requested a 10 rease for faculty of the danas. James Bibb, budget recommended that faculty be required.**
that the money has limits,
e priority has to be faculty
e Knopp, student body
mass State University, said
Wichita senior and student of KU, called faculty a "moral depressant."
representatives also stressed proval by the legislature of a
$770,000 allocation to cover tuition fee waivers at the state schools. The program would give KU and K-State each $100,000 and each $25,000 and each of the three colleges $90,000.
Seventy-five per cent of the funds would be used to pay athletic scholarships, and the remaining funds would go to music, debate and journalism programs.
Victor Miller, student body president at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, was the first to appear in the colleges than to the universities. He said the colleges were being hit harder by decreasing enrollments and were finding it increasingly difficult to fund their
He said that the only way to avoid dropping minor sports and to face the coming enrollment crisis at the colleges would be through the waiver program.
Buckley said that he and Pat Neutrom, Salina senior and senior class president, mentioned specifically to Docking faculty members about the importance of women's intercollege athletics.
"The desire for these programs was clearly made," Buckley said. "Now it lies in the fact that we are not doing so."
Neustrom said he thought Docking was very receptive to the student represent-
"I really don't know how much consequence this dinner is going to have on his relationship."
w and price controls were lifted from industry but increases limited.
it of Living Council said it extracted a commitment from Ford and General Motors Corp, to limit price increases for the of the 1974 model year to an average of no more than $150 a commitment came from American Motors for an average in
r Corp., the council said, declined to make similar commitments, in all decided to exempt it from controls.
artment of Labor filed suit against milk Having unfair labor practices.
cers alleging unfair labor practices.
sman for the Associated Milk Producers, Inc., has no immeiate on the mat alluring that it violates the Fair Labor Standards Act.
the Labor Department petition asserts that the association hasn't been paying overtime compensation to workers who have worked more than 40 hours weekly at branch plants in Rusk and Sulphur Springs, Tex., and Laurel, Neb.
Gov't, environmental group considering
the suit of Alaska pipeline monopoly. The government and the Sierra Club assert that the Alaska pipeline would not interfere with water flowing to the state.
east one suit could seek to halt pipeline construction, scheduled to begin within weeks. Completion of the line, which will tap the rich oil fields of Alaska.
Nixon formally submitted to the Senate
Saybe's nomination to be attorney general.
Nixon picked Sen. M. E. Saxbe, R-Ohio, to be attorney general more than once and had been unable to make the nomination because the attorney general's salary had raised to $60,000 a year from $35,000 while Saxbe was serving in the Senate.
That constitutive obstacle was removed when Nixon signed into law a bill reducing the attorney general's salary to its previous level.