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Friday, September 28.1973
University Daily Kansan
Fund Remap Foreseen by Dykes Schools. Departments May Divide Aid Differently
15Y ERIC MEYER
Kanan Staff Reporter
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday that new enrollment patterns at the University of Kansas could make it more difficult to fund among schools and departments.
"It is quite clear there must be an internal realization," Dykes said at his weekly press conference, "but it will be agonizing and difficult."
Dykes said reallocation of funds was one of the most important internal problems
“There’s no increase in appropriations, in resources,” he said. “Enrollment is declining. With no new money coming in, it’s clear we’ll have to use what we’ve got
The reallocation problem has been caused
He said changing enrollment had forced cutbacks in several departments last year but no additional cutbacks were expected this year.
by large numbers of students who are majoring in previously unpopular fields and equally large numbers who no longer are majoring, that formerly were more
THE CHANCELLOR said he had sent to each dean and department chairman several newspaper clippings about how the parties' bipartisans had confronted similar problems.
Funds obtained from the legislature to help support new continuing education programs also could help relieve the realization problem, Dykes said.
*Heretofore, most administrators at KU have had to be concerned with the spiraling
growth on campus," he said. "Now, we can become more concerned with moving in a new direction. If we fail to reach out, it will continue to hurt our career longer. We longer continue offering quality education."
Dykes he said he would not stress KU's financial needs when he addressed the Faculty Senate's first meeting later this fall.
"EVERYONE IN the University knows we have severe problems and are convinced they're real," he said. "External relations is a kind of new direction for the University, but none of us wants to see a reduction in concern for internal affairs."
He acknowledged that plans existed for cutting back most of KU's programs by at least 5 per cent. However, he said, plans for cutting back more than the same amount also have been formulated.
Niger Desperately Hunts for Rain
By MARIE JOANNIDIS
Agence France-Presse
NIAMEY, Niger—The land-locked Republic of the Niger in West Africa is waging an 11th-hour battle to save its last remaining crops—a bid to create rain art.
Two teams, one an American private company paid by the Niger government, the other French, using a French Air Force transport plane, are searching for clouds becoming, unfortunately, more and more aware as the end of the rainy季 approaches.
The Niger authorities are worried. They must avoid a catastrophe similar to that of last year, which cost them most of their herds and flocks and brought the starving, ruined nomadic people from the north to the south of the country.
"We are ready to ask the devil for help," said acting President Leopold Kaziende, who is directing the commission overseeing anti-druid aid.
He described the situation as "mediacre."
Kazinde said, "Millions and millions of dollars could be given us in the form of grants."
THE MOST THREATENED harvests at present are those of millet, which is almost ripe, and manure. Only a few days of rain would kill the crop; but the experts. But there has been no rain.
At Ouallah, a few hundred miles from the capital, the peasants wait anxiously.
"Our only hope lies in our fields. The harvest of millet and manure must be taken from our fields."
pointed to the cultivated fields which lie among the up landscape, devastat as with first frit.
For these villagers what counts is that rain falls, not who makes it fall.
"It rained a little yesterday, after nine dry days," said one of them. "That was the work of our witch doctors and priests. God answered our prayers."
While the authorities hold out some hope of saving the southern part of the country, the situation in the north is extremely serious. The nomads continue to leave the region, heading south to the capital or over into neighboring Nigeria.
THEY CAN OFFEN be seen at the market place in Mangeze, trying to exchange the few, scraggly cattle they have left for sacks of millet and sorghum, food they are not used to. Normally they eat meat and drink milk.
The nomads mingle with refugees from Mali, estimated at 50,000 through Niger. The refuges came here in June but who are now slowly returning home, encouraged by reports that their country will be less affected by drought this year.
The artificial rain-making operation will continue until the end of this month or the beginning of October when the dry season begins.
But the authorities realize that the whole operation was decided upon too late.
"Next year we shall start in May," said Karinole.
in the meantime, Kaziende is placing hope in the appeal by the Upper Volta President, Sangouke Larnizana, at the United Nations.
"The whole world must see and feel the situation," Lamizana said. "Never in living memory has the world known such a famine, such a drought which spreads from Africa to Asia to Europe, to the Ocean and which is even affecting such countries as Sudan, Ethiopia and Chad."
Fringe benefits for University of Kansas faculty and staff members were discussed at a meeting last night of the KU chapter of the National Association for University Professors in the Kansas Union.
Professors' Group Hears Discussion On Fringe Benefits
About 40 members heard a panel discussion on health, death and disability insurance and retirement programs for KU faculty.
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs and the discussion leader, said the fringe benefits program at KU had broadened considerably since he had come in 1987. At that time, he said, faculty members entitled to social security benefits only.
Today, said Nitcher, comprehensive death, health and disability insurance plans were available, as well as a tax-sheltered retirement annuity program.
For example, a permanent faculty member who has taught at least one month at KU is eligible for a health insurance plan paid for entirely by the state.
The Pershing Rifles-Res Cross blood drive this week at the University of Kansas fell short of its 800-pint goal by nearly 200 rounds to Doug Spencer, publicity marshal.
Blood Drive Misses Goal
Spencer said only 626 pints had been donated by the end of the drive yesterday.
Spencer said he was totally disappointed with the results, adding he had hoped the rainy weather would not have kept so many people from giving blood.
Due to the large quantity of blood donated here in the fall and spring drives last year, 1,568 pints, the Red Cross allowed students, faculty, staff and their families to receive blood this year without obligation for replacement. Spencer said the University would not lose this privilege if enough blood was donated during the spring drive.
INTERVIEWS FOR SUA concert committee chairmen are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. Students may sign up for interviews today in the SUA office.
THE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE will conduct a forum at 7:30 tonight in the West Side Building, Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, Kan. David Harris, husband of singer Joan Beazn, will lecture. Other speakers will activity activists, Igal Rodenko, Devi Prasad and Bob
THE KU COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN will have a organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
DR. BERNARD HEINRICH, professor of entomology at the University of California at Berkeley, will conduct a seminar at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Dyche Auditorium.
THE SIERRA CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Park recreation center. The topic will be the expansion of the Lawrence airport.
KONRAD WACHSMAN, a visiting lecturer, will speak on architecture as technology at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Wachman is the director of the building research division and chairman of the department of architecture graduate school at the University of Southern California.
By JEFFREY HILL
Kansas Staff Reporter
Costs of Parking Could Rise Again
By JEFFREY HILL
"This is probably just the beginning of parking fee increases." Martin Jones, KU
Parking permit fees at the University of Kansas, which were raised $2.50 this semester, may be subject to more increases in the future if Security and Parking Department salaries and operating expenses rise, according to a KU budget official.
"We've been holding the line on parking fees for years, but increased salaries and the cost of improving parking lots is going to be forcing fees upward."
Jones was a $104,000 surplus in the Security and Parking budget for fiscal year 1973 she earmarked for park lot building and could not be used to pay other expenses.
Jones said state statutes required that any extra budget money be put in a fund strictly for maintenance, expansion or improvement of parking lots.
The parking permit increase was necessary to maintain the parking im- plement.
provement fund and to cover a 5 per cent salary increase granted by the state to employees.
Security and Parking has approval from the Kansas Legislature and the Board of Regents to spend up $80,000 for parking lot improvement in fiscal year 1974.
"State statute also says that we can't allow that balance brought forward to go all the way."
"Minimum maintenance on parking lots would cost us $40,000 to $50,000 a year, and we don't always have enough in the fund to cover that.
"For example, in 1972 we spent zero dollars on maintaining the lets because there were no other jobs."
"Our entire parking budget comes from the collection of parking fines and parking permit fees. From this we have to pay for the expenses and maintain the parking lots."
Jones said the system of carrying a surplus to cover maintenance and construction of parking lots had kept permit fees at KU lower than at many universities.
parking garages. Now they have a $3-million parking budget, and a permit to park there.
'At UCLA, they floated bonds to pay for
The KU Parking Board recommended this year's permit increase. Captain Joe Marluff, professor of the Navy ROTC program and chairman of the Parking Board, said neither the permit increase nor the new parking fine regulation had been intended to inflate the parking improvement fund.
A permit to work in either X or O zone at a job costing $2.50 this year, up from $25 in 1972.
"We have no thoughts of making a lot of money," Marzulff said. "The price increase for parking permits is necessary to cover increased expenditures, and the new regulation which requires a payment of $5 per vehicle is necessary to make collection of fines more efficient.
much as it was under the old system,
although it's soon to soon tell."
Marluff said the budget carryover was not really a surplus.
"Security is paid for by the state, but parking and traffic is supposed to be self-sufficient. If we do have money left over, we should stop." "Improvements will use up most of it."
Mike Thomas, director of Security and Parking, said the fund had been used in recent years to expand X zone, near Memorial Stadium; install bumpers and rock along Memorial Drive; and install lighting. The fund also O zone, south of Robinson Gymnasium.
Future projects include the expansion of S zone, south of Oread Hall; installation of more lightening in lots; and resurfacing of the west part of N zone, west of Murphy Hall. Thomas said the expansion of S zone alone would cost nearly $100,000.
'As a matter of fact, I don't expect our income from the new fine regulator to be as
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Cary Badger, Gardner junior and assembly chairman, said the coffee house originally had operated as a place for entertainment and concessions.
John Beisner, Salina junior and AURH president, said that the coffee house had a few employees.
Coffee House, Trip Discussed by AURH
"To break even we must take in $70 to $80 in concessions each time we are open," Badger said, "but we have only been averaging $30.
The financial condition of the Lewis Hall coffee house, selection of judicial board members and plans for a Christmas trip were the main topics of discussion at a meeting of the Association of University Halls (AURH). Assembly last night.
If food service is maintained the coffee house will continue to lose money. Beiser and
THE ASSEMBLY TABLED the issue and
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Larry Gibbons, Independence, Mo., special student, reported on the possibility of a Christmas trip for all residents to the Country Club in Kansas City, Mo.
The assembly approved the formation of a five-person committee to interview interested hall residents, to fill the newly-created 10-member judicial board.
A committee was established to ask the person Trust Committee to approve the rip.
Beiminer said there had been a problem with the use by students of public areas in the city. He said the school was not in compliance.
"Every hall should review its policy concerning this situation," Beissner said. "The housing board is concerned over this issue."
Gibbons said the trip was been planned specifically for those students who had no prior experience with chartering buses for the trip and spending time touring the art gallery and shopping on
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the assembly:
—Urged that all residence halls submit floor pictures to the 1974 Jayhawker yearbook.
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- Established a committee to make plans for the 1974 Jawhawk Jamboree.
—Decided that residence halls would not contribute money for beer for the hockey team.
—Approved the purchase of a trophy for the KU residence hall canoe race winner. The next AURH meeting is scheduled for Oct. 11.
—Established a task force to set up activities for Parents' Day.
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