December 4,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Student hurt in accident remains in fair condition
Michael Marconi, Highland Park, Ill. freshman, remained in fair condition last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Marconi was taken to the Med Center early Thursday morning after he was discovered lying in the street near Allen Field House. Marconi had fallen from the trunk of a moving car shortly after midnight, according to police reports.
Trivia game designer to speak
Marcom suffered a double fracture to his skull and a concussion.
KU graduate Merton Olds has created a trivia game designed to educate people about black American history.
Olds will be on campus tomorrow to speak with KU officials about Black History Month, which is February, and to promote his game. "Rise and Fly."
The $29.95 game went on the market Saturday in department stores on the East and West Coasts. Limited editions of the game could be distributed in bookstores before Christmas, and Dolores Ogden, 1312 Massachusetts St. of Olds friends.
Slavic expert to give speech
A foreign correspondent who worked in Moscow after World War II will speak about her experiences at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 1141 Vermont St.
Renata Rotkowicz, who is now a Slavic bibliographer at Washington University in St. Louis, will be in Lawrence for two days as an outside evaluator of the Slavic Heritage Project. The project is an attempt to open lines of communication between the University of Kansas and Slavic communities in the area.
Writer to speak on culture
Paula Gunn Allen, a native American poet and novelist. Thursday will speak on campus in two appearances sponsored by the English department.
Allen, whose writings on native American culture and literature have been published in several journals, will speak at 4 p.m. in 401 Wescote Hall on "Traditional Elements of Culture in Native American Novels."
Ex-correspondent is honored
She will read from her poetry and fiction at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
A former U S correspondent in Europe received a certificate of outstanding service yesterday on campus from Kappapha, a national journalism honor society.
Philip Whitcomb worked in Europe for 64 years, writing for the Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, Harper's Weekly, the Boston Evening Transcript and the Baltimore Sun.
Whitcomb, 93, earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kansas.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy. The high will be in the mid-30s. Winds will be light from the northeast. Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low in the teens. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy again, and the high will be in the low 40s.
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Voting puts Sen. Doyen out of post
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers yesterday made changes in the House and Senate replacing many top leaders, especially in the hot contested Senate races.
In the most important contest, Senate Republicans elected Majority Leader Robert Talkingay in the new Senate president, replacing Sen. Ross Doyen, who fell 13-11 in a secret ballot. On the Democratic side, Sen. Mike Johnston, Parsons, unseated long-time Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger, Kansas City.
In the House, Speaker Mike Hayden,
R-Atwood, was unopposed in his re-election
TALKINGTON, IOLA, GAVE up his major leader's post to challenge Doyen, a Concordia Republican who had served as president since late 1975.
Talking, who labeled himself a moderate conservative, played down any major disagreements with the more conservative Republicans and senators merely were ready for a change.
"I think they felt Ross did a good job, but it was time to have new faces." Talkington blog.
the new president said that one reason he ran was to try to help lawmakers from rural and urban areas of the state work together better. However, his first action will be helping to heal some wound caused by the leadership election itself.
ALTHOUGH BOTH TALKINGTON and Doyen said they still would be able to work well together. Doyen made it clear after the balloting that he felt betrayed by some members of the Senate who did not support him.
Doyen said the turning point for him came when Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Praatt, and his brother, Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, supported Talkington. Doyen said the Kerrs were among senators he spent time and effort helping in their campaigns.
Doyen said that in general, the Senate's veterans' committee, which has the newly elected senate, backed Takimi.
Fred Kerr's decision to support Talking
might have been the deciding factor in Kerr's
loss to Sen. Paul Burke, R-Leawood, for
the majority leader's job.
Fyong Kuk (left), Junction City freshman, and Se Taak from the Kansas Union on a cold evening. The two said Park, Leneworth freshman, ride home to Templin Hall yesterday that the cold weather made biking difficult.
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Advocate to discuss state pay plan
By MARY CARTER
Staff Reporter
State employees' salaries and benefits have been neglected too long, says the executive director of a state employees' organization, and his group is working to change that.
change
Charles Dodson, executive director of the Kansas Association of Public Employees, will explain KAPE's proposed pay plan for 1963 at 7:30 tonight in the Computer Center auditorium.
The average salary of classified employees at the University of Kansas ranks 44th in the United States. Dodson said yesterday. But the per capita income in the state ranks 12th
"WeVE BEEN HEARING all these prophets of gloom and doom," he said, "but since 1978, Kansas has gone up seven places in the rank of average per capita income. We're not a poor state."
"If we are in such bad shape, why are they going to do away with the state boost tax?" It has added $77 million to the state and has made it a priority for income to start with. The state can afford
to do away with $57 million, we must not be too bad off "
Dodson said every university in the state system this year recommended a 5 percent salary increase for classified employees and a 7 percent raise for unclassified employees and student employees.
"We understand that the students need money to get through school, but the classified employees depend on their salaries and must receive security and must receive security." Dodson said.
CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES ARE state civil service employees whose duties are the same statewide, such as clerks and secretaries.
The pay plan proposal Dodson will explain tonight consists of three parts, one of which Dodson thinks has "excellent chances" in the Kansas Legislature.
The plan calls for a "reasonable" cost of living increase, which Dodson said would depend a great deal on the state economy between now and next spring when the Legislature decides how big the increase should be.
"We'll just have to sit back and want on that one." he said.
The plan also asks for a longevity pay plan
which would give each classified employee an annual raise just for remaining on the job. he said.
The third step is a guaranteed annual step program that would replace the merit pay program, which has not been financed by the Legislature since it was instituted three years ago.
"THEY'RE NEVER GOING to fund the merit plan," Dodson said. "We're asking that they get it off the books. They're never going to use it, and they're just holding it out there in front of us."
Mert-pay plans tie raises to job performance ratings employees receive from their supervisors — the higher the rating, the greater the raise.
Under the proposed KAPE plan, an employee would receive a rating similar to "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory." If an employee satisfies a satisfaction, he or she would receive a raise.
"I think the prospects for the guaranteed annual step are good to excellent." Dodson said. "The longevity plan will still require a lot of work, but the situation is so that I'm cautiously optimistic for its passage in the Legislature."
New athletic staff member believes in opportunity
Staff Reporter
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
"A student more than likely will make it if he has patience and is willing to work at it as soon as possible."
Patience and perseverance are the keys to success at college for any student, the director of Supportive Educational Services of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
Lee, who was appointed last month as the new assistant athletic director in charge of academia and personal support for athletes, has spent many years has helped motivate people to learn.
HE ACQUIRED HIS BELIEF in people's ability to achieve, he said, from his work with the "hard-core unemployed" in Baton Rouge and adults in Minnesota during the late 1960s.
People need the opportunity to learn basic English, math and communication skills. Lee
Richard Lee Buddy Mangione/KANSAro
LONNY ROSE, AN ASSISTANT athletic director, said Lee's experience and back
"Individuals with an ACT score of 30 and above aren't the only ones who can make it," he said. "Those with scores of 16 and below can make it if they have, or can develop, basic skills and have the motivation to push through."
ground would strengthen the athletic department's support system for athletes
Earlier this semester to football players were declared academically ineligible
But Lee said that his job was not to make the athletes eligible.
"I do not anticipate any recurrence of past problems," Rose said. "It has been a tough year for football players."
Lee acquired his understanding of the lives of student athletes when he was an athlete on scholarship at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He played football and baseball during his freshman year, but dropped football after one season.
Playing one sport also made it easier on him academically, he said, because he did not have to practice intensively all year.
Although he had a chance to sign with a professional baseball team after high school and throughout his college career, Lee said, "I'll give him his degree in health and physical education.
IF YOU GET STUDENT athletes involved to a greater degree," he said, "they will have a greater experience and are more likely to have a total university experience."
"I like to think I did what I excelled at," Lee said.
AFTER TEACHING AND coaching in junior high schools and working with unemployed and disadvantaged adults in Louisiana and Minnesota, Lee began his work with college students in 1970 as the assistant director of the Minority Groups
"Where else would you find people better prepared to be leaders than from the group of student athletes?" Lee said.
Involving student athletes in all areas of academic life is one of his goals now, Lee said. He would like to see athletes more involved in leadership positions.
"WHEN I HAD AN opportunity to be director of SES," he said. "I jumped at the chance because it was half way between Texas and Minnesota.
After five years, he said, he and his family decided they would like to move closer to their family roots in Texas and Louisiana
"I came mainly because of its rich tradition as a strong academic institution, as well as having very good athletic programs in the areas of basketball and track and field."
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When Lee came to SES in 1975, he said about 100 students used the services each year. Now, almost 1,000 students use SES.
At Mankato State. Lee said; he supervised supportive student services for about 200 minority students. He also taught in the Afro-American history department and the human relations program, which was designed to certify and recredit all elementary and secondary teachers in the state.
the mung that keeps me motivated, active and involved," he said. "is to see students coming to the University with limited educational background, suffering cultural and economic deprivation, and once here, through services we provide, not only enhance skills, but develop skills that allow them to matriculate through the University like any other student who came with all the tools."
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