VOL.101.NO.7
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Students here from Soviet Union
Exchange students arrive from Leningrad University as the first two participants
By Christine Groody
Kansan staff writer
Yelena Yankovskaya returned to her room in McColm Hall on Friday morning and found two notes on her door. One was written in Russian, the other in English. Both notes are message: "Welcome to the 10th floor of McColm Hall."
This friendly gesture by the women on her floor made home seem a little less far away, said 21-year-old Waleed.
Yankovskya and Vladimir Kuykin are the first Soviet undergraduate students to participate in a student exchange program between Leningrad State University and the University of Georgia, and between Debebi Debicik, director of the KU study abroad program
'I have never left my house for such a long time. I am both sad and happy to be here — sad because I leave my family, happy because I get to meet people and learn more about the United States.'
- Yelena Yankovskya Soviet exchange student
Yankovskya and Kuykin are Soviet students.
Yankovskya, who will study English literature, and Kuviky, who will study sociology, arrived Thursday.
Takovskya said she planned to teach English when she returned to Leningrad in December.
William Griffith and Gary Roy, the two KU students selected by the Slavic department to go to Lengnigrad, are now serving as the University of Georgia's
Yankovskya's and Kuykin's arrivals were delayed because of problems with visas. Then visas were sent by facsimile machine to Helsinki and were to be delivered to the hotel where they arrived, the courier and were delayed for several days. Dehlki said.
The student exchange program with the Soviet Union was approved last spring, but KU officials did not know when the Soviet students would be arriving until last week, she said.
Originally, it was planned that Yankovskya and kuwail would arrive in time for the first week of school.
Yankovskya said her decision to come to KU was made quite by
"They called me in the late afternoon and asked if I wanted to go, and I had to tell my answer in the same evening."
Yankovskya said she knew nothing about KU because she did not have anyone to ask for information. The only information she had about Kansas was what she had read in a history book
"I went to the consulate to get my papers, and I did not even know what town the school was in." she said
Yankovskya said that coming to KU was a chance in a lifetime but that she was not sure if she would have come to KU.
"I have never left my house for such a long time!" she said. "I am both old and happy to be here — sad because I leave my family happy because I get to meet people and learn more about the United States."
Suzanne Myers, Yankovskaya's co-mate at McCulloh, said she was excited to have Yankovskaya a role.
"I'm flattered that she is staying with me." Myers said. "It will be fun to learn about Russia because I don't know very much about it. She told me the same about American culture. It will be fun to watch her."
Myers said she hoped to take Yankovskya to bars and to Wal-Mart.
Debicki said she hoped KU students would share their culture with Yankovskya and Kuykin.
Loss of Margin worries officials
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
The Legislature's failure to finance the Margin of Excellence resulted in lower faculty salaries compared to KU's five peer institutions, said Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor.
"With the first couple of years we were gaining again." Shankel said. "With this year's failure to fund the Margin we dropped back again."
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers
Shankel said the loss of Morgan financing would hurt the University in several ways, especially in the area of faculty salaries.
During the first two years of the Margin, the average faculty salary increased from a low of 88.6 percent of its peers' salaries to 92.1 percent
Salaries for fiscal 1991 have fallen to 90.4 percent of peer institutions, their lowest since 1988.
- Gunther Schlager, chairperson of *
Faculty Salary Comparisons Average Salary (in dollars)
1980 23,973
1981 25,381
1982 27,622
1983 30,018
1984 31,285
1985 33,518
1986 34,917
1987 36,353
1988 37,645
1989 40,672
1990 44,021
1991 45,342 est
Salaries Relative to Peers (in percent)
the division of biological sciences,
said that before the Margin passed,
the biology department lost several
students to other schools and
private industry.
"Salary was a big factor in all those decisions," he said.
Sometimes departments do not have the problem of attracting and maintaining talented faculty because they cannot afford to fill vacant positions, Shankel said As KU enrollment climbs, the result is fewer courses and more crowded classrooms.
Schlager said the biology department had seven vacant positions at the beginning of last year. They were able to fill four of them, but Schlanger said he expected four more people to retire this year.
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"Without the Margin this year, we're not going to make as much progress," Schlager said.
Increasing enrollment and a teacher shortage caused the biology department to place more than 600 students in one section of Biology 104 last semester. Schlager said. The course usually is taught to groups of
175 to 300 students.
Don Stull, associate charperson of the department of anthropology, said that last year the department hired a new faculty member in 13 years.
Although faculty salaries are a concern, they are not the only place where lack of Margin financing will have an impact.
Bill Crowe, dean of libraries, said the combination of the loss of Margin support and rising publishing prices has led to a spending on books and periodicals.
- Loss of the Margin would make KU less competitive in attracting researchers, Schlager said
Tighter department budgets and a higher minimum wage would reduce the number of student jobs, said Julie Krugger. The student employment center
■ Budget cuts would affect not only student employees but the offices that depend on them. Cooper said. Many campus services may have to be reduced because of understaffed offices.
The Associated Press
Army has no injuries in vehicle explosion
An Army vehicle carrying Tow anti-tank missiles and other weapons exploded yesterday in eastern Saudi Arabia, the Army said. No injuries were reported.
The fire that caused the explosion is under investigation, the Army said in a statement
The vehicle — a high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle — is the modern version of the Army jeep. It was in a motor pool at an 82nd Airborne Division camp when it caught fire, the statement said.
Bush begins money search
President Bush is dispatching two high-level missions this week on a global search for billions of dollars to support the economic and military campaign against ISIS, a strategy some say is unbecoming of a superpower.
One delegation, led by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, leaves today for stops in Paris, London, Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, passing the plate in search of as much as $25 billion to help defray the expense of the U.S. troop deployment and to aid nations suffering hardships from the economic embargo against Iraq.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III leaves later in the week on a similar whirlwind trip looking for assistance in the capitals of oil-rich Persian Gulf countries.
Embassy diplomats suffer
Iraqi troops kept up a menacing presence outside embassy gates, trapping those inside 30 embassies, including the U.S. British, Japanese, Canadian and Egyptian missions.
The skeleton staff at the U.S. Embassy was boiling swimming pool water to drink and sleeping outdoors at night to keep cool, despite swarms of mosquitoes, cockroaches and mosquitoes and others who returned from Kuwait on Sunday.
Soldiers took up positions and started cutting water, power and phone lines Aug. 24, the deadline set by Iraq for embassies to shut down and clear out their personnel.
Diplomats are suffering from heat, thirst and isolation at embassies that keep them open in open air. They need to be on their toes on close.
Refugees fight for supplies
American refugees from Iraq and Kuwait are dying from exposure in a makeshift camp in the desert no man's land between Iraq and Jordan, and rioting may break out soon. U.S. aid workers said yesterday.
Several thousand of the increasingly desperate refugees mobbed an Indian who volunteered to help relief workers when they suspected him of cheating in distributing tents. He was beaten but survived.
The estimated 41,000 stranded Asians are fighting each other over scant supplies, they said.
Floyd Preston, chemical and petroleum engineering professor, speaks at a lecture series presented by International Studies and Programs.
Professor addresses oil shortage, effect of gulf crisis
Bv Tatsuva Shimizu
People should not panic because of oil shortages caused by the Middle East crisis, a KU professor said Friday.
Floyd Preston, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering warned, however, that oil would run out some day and that the United States needed to develop other energy sources.
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of oil to about 40 people at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
He said that since oil exports from Iraq and Kuwait had stopped, the world daily production of oil had fallen by 60%.
Preston talked about the technical and political aspects
"We don't have very many generations to solve this problem," he said.
Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries have the capacity to make up the shortage. Stonel said.
"Oil is not going away in the near future, long beyond our life." he said.
In case of an emergency, the United States has strategic petroleum reserves along the Gulf Coast, which are used for nuclear fuel and other purposes.
3. 5 million barrels a day for 170 days, Preston said.
The United States is the second largest oil-producing country in the world, after the Soviet Union, he said. But the United States imports about 52 percent of the oil it uses, compared with 13 percent in 1950.
The United States imports oil from Arabian countries, Canada, the United Kingdom, Nigeria and other nations, he said. But Canada and the United Kingdom soon will provide of surplus oil to export because of declining supplies.
"We are running out of countries which have the excess production capacity," Preston said.
Orientation video educates new students about diversity
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
A student who appeared in "Valuing Diversity", an orientation video about campus diversity, said the most difficult part of expressing her feelings was doing it in less than 15 seconds.
The video, sponsored by New Student Orientation, featured 15 KU students who spoke about their experiences on campus. The seven-minute video was shown for the time as part of new student orientation this summer.
Lori Reisher, assistant director of New Student Orientation, said she was happy about the initial reaction to the video.
"We did a half-hour activity and exercise that went
orientation was about diversity."
Although evaluation forms have not been reviewed, instead she said she thought the video was received well by students.
She said her office received money to work on another video about diversity to be shown at organized living
"The next video will probably be more in-depth," Ressor said.
Kathryn Kretschmer, director of New Student Orientation, said the video had been shown at all 18 orientation programs.
The overall reaction to the video was positive, she said. Kevin Schmitz, Salina senior, who worked as an orientation assistant, saw the video during the summer sessions.
"I liked watching the crowd," he said. "During the second session I saw a mom cry. It really got to her. It was scary."
Jennie Hilker, Elkhorn, Neb., freshman, said that the rodeo made a good point but that it could have been better.
"I think they could have used more creative methods to express the issues," she said. "I think it would have been bee
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