September 21, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Today is last day to add classes or change sections
Today is the last day to add a course or change class sections.
Sept. 28 will be the last day to drop a course without receiving a grade of "W" (withdrawal) or "F" (fail).
Press club to sponsor debate
Students may add or drop classes from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Enrollment Center, 111 Strong Hall.
Candidates for Douglas County district attorney will debate during the Lawrence Press Club meeting 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Eldridge House, Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
Burge Union closed tomorrow
Jim Flory, Republican candidate on leave from the Kansas attorney general's office, and Mike Glover, Democratic candidate and city prosecutor, will speak on how they would deal with the local media if elected.
The Frank R. Burge Union will be closed tomorrow while a new electrical transformer is installed. The Burge Union, which will be without electricity during the installation, will reopen at 7 a.m. Monday. It is not open on Sundays.
Haskell exhibit rescheduled
An exhibit titled "The First Americans: Celebrating 100 Years of Haskell" has been rescheduled for Oct. 19 at the Spencer Research Library. The exhibit and an accompanying panel discussion were originally scheduled for today.
Workshop to examine careers
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will sponsor a career workshop from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
Research awards to be given
The purpose of the workshop, "Career Exploration for Women," will be to examine values, philosophies and lifestyles as they affect career choices
Barbara W. Ballard, associate dean of student life and coordinator of the Women's Resource Center, will conduct the workshop.
For more information, call 664-3532 or stop by the Women's Resource Center at 218 Strong Hall.
High school students and students and faculty at the University of Kansas College of Health Sciences will be recognized at the third annual Research Day on Oct. 5 at Battentfield Auditorium on the University of Kansas Medical Center campus
Three professors from the College of Health Sciences will receive faculty research awards.
They are Kurt E. Ebner, professor and chairman of the department of biochemistry; Joe R. Kimmel, associate chief of staff for research and development at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center; and Frederick Samson Jr., director of the Ralph L. Smith Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and the high will be in the mid. to upper 80s. Winds of 15 to 20 mph will be from the south. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low in the lower 60s and a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance for showers and thundershowers and a high in the mid-80s.
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By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The leaves on the trees are still green, and students are still wearing their best Bermuda shorts.
shorts.
Although fall officially arrives at 3:33 p.m.
tomorrow, it was nowhere to be seen on
campus yesterday.
campus masters soaked students to their knees in the 89-degree afternoon, and a half-dozen sunbathers lounged by the swimming pool at Jayhawker Towers apartments.
A crowd decked out in Hawaiian shorts, sleeveless T-shirts and sunglasses packed Wescoe beach.
Wesco beach.
Sun-lovers, take heart. The unofficial arrival of fall, forecasters say, won't be for two to three weeks.
two to three weeks.
"What most people think of as autumn lags behind the astronomical definition of the season," Barbara Anthony- Twarog, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said yesterday.
yesterday.
THAT DEFINITION IS the equinox, when the sun will cross the equator. All parts of the globe will receive approximately equal amounts of sunlight — 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
John Boyce, Prairie Village senior and late-night disc jockey with KJHK, took advantage of the nice weather yesterday afternoon to take a nap on the bridge by Potter Lake.
"People will begin to notice changes in a week or two," she said. "The days will get shorter the sun will set earlier."
So don't drag out the electric blanket just vet.
And leave that rake in the garage. The leaves are still preparing for their yearly costume change to red, orange and gold
The forecast for the first day of autumn, according to Kevin Stevens of the KU Weather Service, is for mostly cloudy skies and a high of 88 degrees.
BOB BRUNKER, BURBANK, III., junior,
spent the noon hour yesterday on Wescoe
Beach, sitting in the sunshine with friends.
"It's sure not going to be very fall-like." Stevens said.
"Fall! It will 80 degrees out. Brunker took Brunker and he thought of fall as "just a transition" between summer and winter, his two favorite seasons.
"Fall is depressing and boring," he said.
"I'm waiting for that first thin layer of snow on the ground."
on the ground.
Laura Reid, Mission freshman, said her favorite childhood memories of fall were of jumping into piles of multicolored leaves.
The leaves on the campus trees should start changing colors about the first week of October, said Craig Martin, assistant professor of botany.
"But when you're older, and you have to rake those leaves, it's not so fun," she said.
sor of binary.
DEPENDING ON THE species, leaves will turn colors based on shifts in temperature and shifts in day length, Martin said.
Elm trees will turn bright gold, while maples, oaks and sumacs will turn a variety of reds, he said.
Martin said he had mixed feelings about the first day of autumn.
From a researcher's standpoint, "Martin said, 'it's a time when things begin to go dormant, which means I have to do all my studies indoors
so cool. "But from an aesthetic standpoint, it's lovely. It's really invigorating to walk outside in weather that's not so oppressively hot."
IN BALDWIN, JUST 12 miles south of Lawrence, Blanch Wise and her co-workers are gearing up for the city's 27th annual Maple Leaf Festival on Oct. 29 and 21.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of land.
The leaf raking season for facilities operations begins in November and can continue until January — depending on the amount of snowfall, Mathes said.
scape maintenance for facilities operations, said this was the peak lawn moving season for campus crews
Mathes said autumn was 'nice weather to work in, but it's a awful tough to figure out how to dress for. You'll wear a coat in the morning, work up a sweat and take it off after about 1 oclock
after about 10 minutes.
"But by quitting time, the sun's going down, and you wish you had that coat with you."
Committee suggests cut in programs
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The bachelor of general studies programs in East Asian, Slavic, French and Italian languages at the University of Kansas should be discontinued, the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Regents recommended yesterday.
academic artworks. The committee also suggested that KU's East Asian Studies program be re-classified as Asiatic Languages.
The degrees were considered no longer in use by a Regents program review team, said Martine Hammond, Regents director of academic affairs.
The full Board will review the recommendations today.
The proposed changes at KU and similar changes at other Regents schools are part of a five-year cycle of program reviews launched last year by the Regents.
Also at today's meeting, the board will hear a review by an independent team that has examined education programs at Regents schools.
gents schools.
Stanley Koplik. Regents executive director, said that the changes would affect a minimum of students.
"I can't say how many in numbers," he said, "but it's probably fair to say that fewer than 20 will be affected."
than 20 will be directed.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said that students would still be able to obtain bachelors degrees in the four specified languages. Only the bachelor of general studies degrees would be eliminated.
Regent Patricia W. Caruthers, Kansas City, Kan., said "In my opinion, a bachelor of general studies is no preparation to go out into the world of work. It worthless. We went along with it in the '60s and '70s to keep everybody happy."
The committee also suggested that KU drop its program for a graduate certificate of proficiency in Russian and Slavic Studies.
proactivity in this research.
"That program no longer is meaningful. It is no longer encouraged by the faculty," said Hammond.
Hammond Sandra McMullen, Academic Affairs Committee chairman, said, "We are not in any way trying to downgrade foreign languages. It is just the opposite. We are trying to make the existing programs better."
If the Regents approve the recommendations then no new students will be allowed to enroll. Students who are enrolled in the programs will be allowed to finish.
The committee also recommended that KU's African Studies program submit a status report to the Regents each year for the next two years, and that the University extend its efforts to strengthen the program by using faculty with complementary interests in African Studies.
KU faculty, staff like higher wages in budget proposal
Staff Reporter
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND
The University of Kansas' proposed fiscal year 1986 budget, which would provide a 10.9 percent increase over present financing, met with approval yesterday from administrators, faculty and staff.
The faculty is generally supportive of the proposed budget, the KU president of the American Association of University Professors said yesterday.
"It's tough for the individual to weigh the pros and cons of putting together a budget," said Sidney Shapiro, the president and a professor of law, "but we believe the University sets high goals for faculty salaries."
salaries.
The proposed $178,831,755 budget for fiscal year 1966 asks for a 7 percent salary increase for classified and unclassified employees and a 1 percent increase in retirement benefits for unclassified staff.
budget is the most optimistic of three proposals submitted to the state.
Shapiro said many faculty members had been wondering whether the Kansas Legislature would continue generous financing of the University.
ADMINISTRATORS SUBMITTED THE budget to operate, maintain and improve KU to the state budget office this week. The
"It's a pivotal year," Shapiro said. "The faculty is looking toward Topeka and asking what's their intention."
Joe Collins, president of Classified Senate,
said. "If it is 7 percent, it's wonderful. It's a real shot in the arm for classified staff and faculty."
faculty. In 1982-83, classified staff members received a 2 percent raise, and in 1983-84, a 4 percent increase. Collins said.
graduate.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said that with the base salary increases, the University was trying to attain the average salary of teaching assistants at schools comparable to KU.
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GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS would receive a 19.9 percent salary increase and a 75 percent fee waiver in the 1985-86 school year under the proposed budget. The budget also would create 10.5 part-time graduate teaching assistants.
The budget also provides for 35 more student hourly wage jobs on campus.
Tam Houston, coordinator of student employment and assistant director of financial aid, said the on-campus jobs were very much needed.
This year, she said, only 22 student jobs were created, and some students still may be without jobs.
many on-campus jobs require clerical skills like typing that many students don't have," she said.
SHE SAID THAT she would like for students to be paid according to the responsibility of the job, but that departments often did not have enough money to pay student employees adequately.
The proposed budget also includes a 15 percent increase for utilities, and a 7 percent increase for other operating expenses, including departmental supplies. An additional $430,156 is requested to hook up utilities in the Haworth Hall addition, the Fred B. Anschutz Pavilion and a botany lab on west campus.
The budget also asks for $315,000 for min-
m and micro-computers in several departments and $100,000 to expand the central University computer system
University Computer To establish a new bachelor of science program in computer engineering, the budget asks for four faculty positions and $110,000 for equipment, at a total cost of $266,990. The program would teach the design and development of computer systems. Nitcher said.
THE BUDGET PROCESS began in June, Notcher said, when administrators from the Regents schools submitted budgets to the Board of Regents. The board uses the budget proposals to determine base increases for the schools.
Although administrators favor the $178 million budget, they submitted two alternatives to the state budget office.
One proposal, the most stringent of the three, is based on $169.036.256 for the total budget. If that budget were implemented, supplies, library acquisitions and equipment would have to be drastically reduced, Nitcher said.
The second proposal is based on $171,989,893.
TALLY HO, DEE GEES...
Ships ahoy and blow me down The D.G. ships are party bound To a treasure hunt we're wayward bound That pirates hid in Lawrence town.
So, drag up your anchors And pull in the plank For the first place you'll dock Is where a D.G. might bank.
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