THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 90, No. 72
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, January 17, 1980
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State Legislature to address student-related issues
The 1980 session of the Kansas Legislature, which convened this week in Topeka, will address several issues that the direct effect on University of Kansas students.
Among those issues are:
- A proposed bill that would raise the minimum drinking age in Kansas to 21;
- Amendment to the Landlord-Termant Act, designed to force negligent landlords to comply with existing health and safety codes, and with their rental agreements;
- Proposed salary increases, to the $3.10 minimum wage, for students employed by the University;
- A bill reducing the residency requirement from one year to six months for out-of-state students;
- A bill raising tuition by $300 for foreign students;
- *A bill that would prohibit the use of student fees to pay for academic, instructional or health care buildings, relieving them from the payments they belong on them.
- Proposed funding for non-student uses of student unions, such as faculty and administrative meetings, which now are partially funded by student activity fees;
- Proposed increases in the maximum amount of federal funds available for scholarships will increase the proposed bill increasing the number of scholarships available to students at state colleges.
- A proposed 100 percent fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants.
The executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby group, said yesterday that changing the drinking age would be "a very hot issue."
Although a bill to raise the drinking age has not yet been introduced, most observers are confident that the issue will be raised this session.
ASK's Bob Bingaman said that almost every legislator he talked to this week wanted to know what ASK's position would be on request a bill.
Bingham said he expected such a bill to be introduced, when it meets the Senate and that ASE's position on a bill would be determined by the Legislative Assembly when it meets in the House.
The L.A, with representatives from each member school, sets the issues for lobbying priority. KU has 23 voting members.
If passed, the self-help amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act would affect students who rent apartments or other housing.
Landlords would not be liable for anything not already included in the existing act, Salibach said, and only necessary repairs could be made.
According to the bill's sponsor, State Rep John Solbach, D-Dawrence, the amendment would give a tenant an easy legal means to dispute landlord agreement or with state health and building codes, if the landlord refused to make improvements within a certain time period.
before a House Judiciary Committee for a vote in about two weeks.
Most students employed by the University will receive an increase in salary from $2.90 to $3.10 an hour if the Legislature follows a recommendation or raise student salaries.
The amendment is expected to come
Lawmakers approved a similar increase, raising student salaries to $2.90 an hour, when the minimum wage went up last year.
A bill introduced in the Kansas Senate would reduce residency requirements for out-of-state students, from a year to six months.
Bingaman said the one year requirement was adopted by the 1975 Legislature in an effort to keep state universities from becoming overcrowded. Now, with declining enrollments at some state universities, lowering the residency requirement could encourage out-of-state students to attend Kansas schools, he said.
A bill raising tuition for foreign students in the House. Some legislators, in the house, spied by international events and is an attempt to restrict the number of foreign students enrolled there.
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, state preparation台州学院 and state preparation students that are now making on academic, instructional and health care buildings at Regents ini. the Legislature approves Carlin's request, student leaders said, Kansas Union fees increases could be forestalled.
Each full-time KU student pays $35.00 a year in fees toward a bond-independence for our buildings; Wescoe Hospital, Westcove Hospital and the University Union. All together, students at Regents schools pay approximately $2 million a year in student fees for buildings on their campus.
Carlin's budget message on Tuesday included a request for about $300,000 to pay for non-student units of student unions.
Currently, students pay for their use of union buildings through student activity programs. These groups must pay for their use of rooms, but faculty and administrative groups are not charged.
Carlin also recommended that the Legislature's limit on federal funding of state scholarships required college were raised, the additional $100,000 would be earmarked for state scholarships and would go to students at both private and public universities in the
If the $500,000 limit is not raised, the federal medical mollage go into the financial and educational programs of students at private colleges in the state, such as Ottowa University and Benedictine University.
Another change in the scholarship and tuition aid program has been suggested by Berman.
Local legislators
Top: Unlike most of her colleagues, State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, is a newcomer to the State House. Charlton was selected to replace Mike Glover, former representative of the 44th District, Glover resigned in December to take a job with a law firm.
firm in Friedonia. Left: State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, speaks to a colleague at the end of yesterday's session. Right: State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, to a fellow senator. Middle: Mitt Romney, an alternate senator. See related story 6. Photo by Scott Smith.
Most officials react favorably to budget plan
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT Staff Reporter
Staff Renorter
Reaction yesterday to Gov. John Carlin's record $2.1 billion budget proposal ranged from the state and university officials said yesterday that the governor's proposals were
The budget, described as "extremely tight" by some legislators, recommends a less than 7 percent increase in spending for 1981 ever last year's $2.35 billion budget.
"It's a rather conservative budget," state Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, said. "As a whole wholl, it's quite satisfactory."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence,
said, "I didn't find much to disagree with."
University of Kansas officials were generally pleased with Carlin's recommendations, which included pay raises for classified employees and student workers.
The governor's proposal would allow an increase in University spending of about $4 million over this year's $124.1 million budget.
Carlin also called for major renovations to Flint and Hawthorn heats a 100 percent fee for his school. The KU-learning more than four-times time, and he pegged $843,499 for assorted improvements.
In all, the general use fund for KU approved by Carlin was just $3 million less than the $7.95 million the University had requested.
"We like his recommendations," Richard Von Ende, executive secretary, said. "He put a lot of emphasis on the faculty, staff and students."
ms budget message, Carlin recommended that student wages be raised from $2.90 an hour to $3.10 an hour, the federal minimum wage.
He also proposed pay increases averaging 11 percent for state employees and called for an 8 percent pay raise for college faculty members.
Jan O'Neil, Classified Senate president, said KU's classified employees were "jumping up-and-down happy" over the onused 11 percent pay increase.
"The state has finally realized that double-digit inflation is here," she said. "It's about time."
However, T.P. Srinivasan, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said he hoped the department would recommend a 1 percent faculty pay raise.
"The governor's recommendation is way off the mark," Strinivasan said. "Carlin's proposed pay increase is unrealistic. It barely half the inflation rate."
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Forer not to dispute pay status
RV CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
Forer and Clarence Dilgham, a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare who served as secretary for 20 years, given 20 days of leave without pay after their unauthorized trip to Iran. Forer left the job in April 2018.
Norman Foreser always wants peace. And the KU associate professor of social welfare wanted him to be against the KU administration concerning his status as an instructor during his conference.
Dillingham could not be reached for comment, but Forer said he didn't think Dillingham was planning any action against the University now.
When the administration concluded its internal review of the faculty members' training and experience, they further action against Forer and Dillingham would be taken according to the official KU rule.
DYKES And Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, were both unavailable for comment yesterday on whether further tests be taken against the faculty members.
action by the administration a "booieman" designed to ensure good behavior in the future.
buty cool of Buter yesterday called the threat of
Forer said he thought the administration had violated die process of law by punishing him without a hearing, but he said he would not pursue the issue.
"I don't think the administration will take further actions against me. As far as I'm concerned, the issue has been resolved," Forer said.
"I won't raise the issue personally," he said. "That is up to other neocole."
Forer said if other instructors wanted to bring charges against the administration, they would have his approval.
T. P. Srinivasan, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said yesterday that the group did not intend to take any action,
GERHARD ZUTHER, chairman of the University Senate executive committee, said his group had no plans to act on the issue.
While in Iran, Fuer and Dillingham met with the militants holding the hostages in Iraq, who were demanding a list of American clergy to Iranian Foreign Minister Suze Gladbach for the release of these detainees.
Srinivasan said future action would depend on the professors' personal satisfaction with the administration and any faculty governance actions.
Forer and Dillingham went to Iran representing the Committee for American/Iranian Crisis Resolution, a group of lawrence citizens and KU faculty members. They organized revolution and condemn the regime of the deposed Shah Mohammed Zafi Pahlavi.
but that he thought the administration was wrong in taking actions against Forer and Dillinham without a hearing.
THE TWO said they had made arrangements with other faculty members to take responsibility for their classes, but University officials said the rules.
When Dykes put the faculty members on leave-with-pay status Dec. 9, he said the two had not received the University administration's approval.
Art and Design Gallery gets burglar alarm
"Norman Forer and Clarence Dillingham, members of the faculty of the School of Social Welfare, neither sought nor heard about these opportunities their academic responsibilities," Dykes said. "They simply informed the University administration of their plans after they had graduated."
Their mission was not approved by the State Department or by KU.
Forer said yesterday that he was now devoting all his efforts into preparing for the spring semester. He also is planning an annual summer camp, planned in Lawrence sometime in the future.
The new system, a sonic barrier alarm, should be operational next week, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Public School of Fine Arts. Thompson refused to comment on the manufacturer, cost, or
Twenty months after opening, the Art and Design Gallery in the Visual Arts building has its first alarm system.
Sonic barrier alarms detect intruders by registering the sound waves the intruders create.
In the past, the gallery had no alarm for
Previously, art and design students had said that the gallery provided little protection for their works.
GRADUATE STUDENTS in the department of design are required to present an exhult of their thesis work and the school projects they display to their work at the gallery.
In December 1978, four silvermithing and jewelry students locked their artwork in a gallery safe to protect the lack of security. They photographed photographs of their work above the shelf.
"We, the undersigned, do hereby proud display our art. It is a pity that you, the viewer, cannot see our painting efforts.
night protection. It is patrolled during daytime by students.
A sign above the safe read :
Due to lack of security, insurance, and proper display facilities, the pieces shown below have been secured in this safe.
one of the four, Bill Seiley, Lawrence graduate student, said their action was responsible for the installation of the alarm system.
"Some students got together, saw that something needed to be done, fussed about it, and it worked," Seely said. "It wouldn't have been done otherwise."
THOMPSON SAID plans for an alarm system were drawn before the building was constructed, but a lack of funds prevented the alarm's installation until now.
The alarm system is being financed through the department of design.
Thompson said the alarm system will make the gallery insurable.
And Seeley said insurance was essential, particularly for graduate students.
"To ask a graduate student to put two years of his work on display, with no money, in an archive," Seely said. "A couple of people have had things broken in the past, and they were taken away."
seetey also said the department had purchased display cases from the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
Staff Reporter
By SCOTT FAUST
Search underway to replace Shankel
A nine-member search committee is accepting nominations for the position of professor of pharmaceutics at University of Kansas Lawrence campus, Taku Hiruko, committee chairman and Regents distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, said Mr.
Del Shankel's resignation from the position, announced in December, is effective July 1. Shankel, executive vice chancellor since February 1974, is resigning his administrative post to Johns Hopkins University in KIL microbiology department.
"We truly encourage anyone who may be qualified to become part of the pool," Hiruchi said.
Hugesch that nominations, including self-nominations, should be made by the archon or by a group them and make a final recommendation to the Chancellor Archie R. Dykes by the end of this year.
SHANKEL SAID he decided to resign in late October because although the administrative work was challenging and interested in teaching to children, he would like
international and national scientific meetings and visiting colleagues around the world.
"I enjoy the more direct contact with students," Shankel said. "I find it stimulating to try to get students interested in microbiology."
He said he had kept his hand in teaching to make an honors Western College scholarship in Haworth Hall where he helped masters' and Ph.D. candidates and taught courses there.
He said he also enjoyed the travel opportunities in research, attending
HE SAID that when he became executive vice chancellor he asked for a four-year term, planning even then to return to teaching.
"By the time I leave the position," Shankel said, "it will have been stretched to six and a half years."
Before becoming executive vice chancellor, he taught in the microbiology department of the University chairman of that department in 1964-65 and was dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Once free of his present job, Shankel said he would like to do research on the genetic effects of radiation and exposure from the National Institute of Health.
He said that although he had no definite plans, he might be interested in doing administrative work again in the future, "if the opportunity presents it."
QUALIFICATIONS for the executive vice chancellor post include tenured faculty status on the Lawrence campus and a graduate degree in administrative ability and the ability to work with others outside the University in campus positions in furthering University goals.
Higuchi said the executive vice chancellor should be responsive to the reports, and that he would report to the Board of Regents, as well as to the other constituent sectors of the university.
Higuchi said Dykes and Shankel would be advising the committee about what characteristics a nominee should have.