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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90. No.22
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Footballer breaks arm
free on campus
10 cents off campus
Tuesday, October 9, 1979
See story page six
Brick builder
Wayne Johnson, Lawrence, is surrounded by stacks of bricks as he tries to straighten the inventory at Morton's Building
Materials, Inc., 1000 E. 15th St. Johnson, a truck driver, has worked for the corporation for 19 years.
University may seek more funds alons reject formula funding
Staff Reporter
Legislators can expect last minute requests for extra funding from Regents schools if the Legislature rejects the prosecution's funding system, a KU official said yesterday.
BY JEFF SJERVEN
The official, Ralph Christoferspoon, vice president of the college of formula funding would diregress schools to reverce to the number of full-time students at each university as a basis for admissions.
Because of increases in full-time enrollment, he said, Regents schools might ask for more faculty members to offset the increases.
Last-minute requests are not allowed under formula funding, which uses per capita spending at each university's peer institution. The program is instead the number of students enrolled.
Although budget requests at all Regents schools were prepared under the formula funding system this year, the Legislature has not approved the formula.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he did
“It’s anybody’s guess,” he said. “We don’t have any plans at this time to request additional funds if the formula is defeated.”
not know when the Legislature would decide the fate of formula funding.
UNDER FORMULA FUNDING, Regents schools base their budget requests on funding at selected peer institutions, which provide research, and research per capita fund.
The University of Kansas' peer institutions are the University of Colorado, the University of Iowa, the University of North
See ENROLLMENT page five
Senator unruffled by hectic pace
Staff Reporter
By TONIWOOD
She refused to associate her activity and pressures with the word "stress."
The agenda is much like other meetings and banquets she attends when in Kansas rather than Washington.
Long rows of tables in yet another meeting room have been set for a banquet, and after all the jello salad has been conceived, the guests again will speak about issues of the day.
Kassebaum is pulled in many directions while visiting constituents, to speak at meetings, answer questions and justify her actions in Congress.
She seems unruffled by all the activity, but admits the task is trying.
"It's hard on anybody," she said yesterday in an interview. "I don't think constituents realize that Johnson State thinks I don't spend enough time there. The western part of the state says I don't spend enough time there. And I'm trying to juggle this request from all over the country, particularly from women's groups."
KASSEAU BM AS in Kansas City, City,
Shannon to open a hospital
Susan to speak at Women's
Republican Club dinner at a farm south
Lawrence and yesterday she spoke at
the Republican Club dinner.
"I don't let it become stress, or I try not. I'm not a very nervous person. That helps. I can get on at a plane and read or go to sleep.
"You don't get into this job not understanding what's involved."
Kassebaum is the only woman in the Senate, and the first woman elected in her own right to the Senate.
"I'm not an aggressive sounding person, but I've always felt I was fairly tenacious. I don't think you need to be aggressive to be strong.
"CERTAINLY THERE are times when I'm treated with a little condescension by my colleagues," she said, "but it doesn't bother me.
"The important thing is what I can accomplish. If there is a little condescension, they'll change their minds if I accomplish what I intended to do."
"To do well, you have to understand the precedent that a freshman student is not supposed to speak very often. I have more than some of my freshmen colleagues.
KASSEBAUM SAID part of that learning process had been disillusioning, in finding out how bills actually became laws.
"But it's kind of sitting back and learning how to operate and then you're given more credit when you know what you're doing."
Kassebaum seems comfortable with the
“One of the problems—it was certainly one I encountered—was that a lot of men didn’t feel I could win, and so they were reluctant to make financial contributions.”
one to 99 ratio of women to men in the Senate. However, she said she expects more women to join her in the future.
She said that her campaign in 1978 had not turned into a cause for putting a woman in the Senate.
"One of the greatest quotes from the campaign was in the London Daily Mail," she said. "It said a woman had been elected to the Senate, not from a nearby coast west coast state, but from conservative King William's a man's a man and a woman's his cook.
"AND IVE thought about that, and I think it's very true on the other hand, we don't seem to feel that it is terribly important," she said. "We women's political causes didn't endure."
"I think that in a way, though we are conservative, we also imbued with the pioneer spirit, and women were very, very much a part of the breaking of the frontier
"I will always consider that my greatest contribution has been my family.
New pay plan in works
"But now, the thing I would most like to be able to do would be to instill confidence in the homeowners—or whatever the opportunities are—and to do it without feeling
A new statewide personnel payroll system could be implemented at the University of Illinois, which is a statewide payroll system, James Cobler, director of the state division of accounts and reports.
Staff Reporter
RvDAVE LEWIS
Cobbler said the new system would aim at preventing late paychecks for state employees. An average of 3 percent of the state paychecks are delivered to their owners
Of the state's 49,000 employees, over 7,500 are employed by KU.
Ralph Christoffersen, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that 38 faculty members had complained about late paybackes since the beginning of the school
The late paychecks matter came before the University Senate executive committee and the Faculty executive committee earlier this year, but no action was taken.
LATE PAY CHECKS, which have caused problems in the past, usually result from paperwork being filled out late.
As in the past, late paychecks have
become an issue at the beginning of the year, when most of the new jobs are assigned. For example, most of the student who receives their jobs in August or September.
Christoffersen said he did not expect any recommendations from the state for six to 12 months.
The division of accounts and reports, with the help of a $230,000 appropriation form the Legislature, began a study in August to determine the needs of the state's payroll reserves.
Officials from the KU office of Business Affairs have been discussing possible changes in KU's payroll system, but they are not aware of what actions might be taken.
"The SYSTEM NOW is an intensive
work done by hand." Cobb said. "We
want to mechanize all the systems we can.
The system now is very time consuming and
hard."
Sherry Kopf, administrative officer for the payroll office, said she would welcome a change in KU's naval system.
Konf said that the present system no
longer could handle all the information cards required by state and federal law.
Appointment cards and insurance cards are just a few of the cards that have to be filled out and signed, she said.
DEPENDING ON THE INVOLUNTARY
employee, a card could go through as many as
six people before being processed.
Cobler said the state hoped to integrate all the payroll systems in the state, reducing the chance for human error.
Kopf said an employee's paycheck could not be processed until each card was signed by the employee and until it went through various channels of the University.
"You can never prevent human error," Kopf said. "We never carelessly make a mistake. It makes three times the work for us."
However, Cobler said an employee's department often makes mistakes, too.
"Quite often some department will fail to submit the appointment papers in time. Sometimes people get so busy that they foretend to send them in."
"The system doesn't get word of it. Then, two days before the paycheck comes out, they scramble to get the papers processed. It is not always the system's fault."
Budget discussions open
The Student Budget Committee heard budget requests totaling $4,028.95 from seven student organizations last night at fall supplementary budget hearings.
Matt Davis, chairman of the committee, said last night that according to the Student Senate Rules and Procedures, no funds were being provided by another group.
A budget request of $1,550 from the Iranian Student Organization was tabled until tomorrow night because of a question about services with the Iranian Student Association.
Iranian Student Association was nationwide.
Hossain Mahalati, president of the ISO, said his organization diffed from the Iranian Student Association because it was an American institution and social activities than political actions.
The committee will make a duplication ruling after hearing a member from each organization speak tomorrow night.
THE IRANIAN Student Association was funded $855 at last year's budget bearers.
The committee denied a request of $200 by the Masters of Public Administration Committee for City Management Association Conference in Arizona. The request was denied because the Commission did not regulate Regulations states that "no funds shall be allocated for sending delegates to conference."
Preliminary cuts were made by the committee in budget requests from the women's field hockey team and the Tae Kwon Do club.
The women's field hockey team asked for
$736.50, but the request was cut to $75.50 because of regulations state which the Senate cannot fund refreshments for clubs. It cannot fund 40 for refreshments at its Alumni Day game.
THE TAE KWN Do club's request of $1,200 for printing expenses and advertising was cut to $120. The spokesman for the club said he had guessed at the $1,200 figure, and would look into the less expensive means of having the point were pointed out by committee members.
the preliminary deliberations, the committee accepted the full budget requests from the following organizations: Microbiology Society of KU, $18.45; KU Communications and the Speech Communications and Human Relations Graduate Students, $62.
en more student organizations will See BUDGET page five
Bell ringer
Albert C. Gerken, University Carillonneur and professor music theory, plays the keyboard which causes the rods in the
JEFF HARRING/Kansan Staff
foreground to rock the bells in the Campanile. Gerken will play a recital Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Jewelry students say temporary home is inadequate
By KATE POUND
Staff Reporter
Unfinished rooms in the Arts and Design Building are empty and jewelry and silversmithing students coping with what remains inadequate facilities have to ask why
The rooms, studios and offices intended to house the jewelry and silversmithing department, are located in the Power Building. Although the art building has been in use for two years, a lack of funds to finish the furniture has kept the jewelry department in its temporary home, Broadcast Hall, Gary Neumcker, chairman of the department.
"We're the only department not in the new building and I think it bothers the students
that there are these new studios they can't use." Nemchock said.
Broadcast Hall was not designed for use as a jewelry studio and is inappropriate for the purpose of its cope with the inefficiently designed studios since the department moved here four years ago.
Wendy Sanchez, Wichita junior, said that only inadequate but were not adequate students that the studios lack such safety equipment as eye wash, acid-bath and burn care.
“IT'S BECOME an attitude problem,” he said. “We'll survive, but I think the students are really unhappy.”
"We work with acids and heat," Sanborn
said. "If something went wrong, there's nothing here to help us."
Broadcast Hall also lacks proper ventilation, Sanborn said, making it unsafe for the use of acids, enamels and other chemicals needed in iewerv making.
She said that improvements have been made recently by students to the Readeast student nurse program, unafraid to unsafe. During the first three weeks of this semester, students moved unassigned furniture and appliances from a room in Hall, she said, and students also did structural repair work in the current
"IT WAS ridiculous that we had to do it," she said. "But we couldn't afford to do it any other way."
"I don't think I'm getting my share out of
what I pay here. Here we are paying to go to school and we have to do our own repairs.
Craig Owens, Wichita sophomore, said he resented not being able to use the new studios.
"I like it having your candy and not being able to eat it," Owens said. "We could really use that space and we shouldn't have to raise hell to get it."
"IT WAS NOTHING personal against
According to Peter Thompson, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, the jewelry department was left in Broadcast Hall because it cannot furnish the new studio where the pieces were built. The Broadcast Hall studios would be adequate for the next few years, he said.
Completing the studios will cost more than $100,000 Wiechert said, although a more exact figure was not available.
REQUESTS for the funds have been included in budget proposals for the last two
jewelry, Thompson said. "But there just was no adequate way we could have suedered the studios out of the budget."
"We can'n't begin to get estimates or take bids until we have funds." Wiechert said. "And we have not been able to identify any funds to finish the building."
According to Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning at KU, the new studies in the remodeled Fowler building attached to the art building have been renovated. The rooms, however, lack air conditioning, a heating system and lines, plumbing and an electrical system.
years, he said, and will continue to be included until funds are allocated.
According to Nemnchock, even if funds for the work were included in the 1981-1982 budget, the jewelry department would not be able to occupy the new studios for two or three more years. Bids could not be taken without a court order, and the work would take at least a year.
"It bothers me that I heard two or three years ago that we would be in the art building in two or three years," he said. According to Owen, one of his brothers was a student at Jewett's jewels.
"We were told when we first enrolled here 'Hey, you guys will have a nice, new building,' he said. "We'll be graduating now. We haven't seen the inside of that building."