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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.10
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Friday, September 7, 1979
SenEx studies disputes board
By DAVE LEWIS
Staff Reporter
The University Senate executive committee will discuss today the possibility of implementing an academic grievance committee that would have the final say on grade disputes at the University of Kansas.
The committee was suggested in the second annual ombre-
ment submitted to SenEx by William Balfour,
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The office of the umbamban was established in 1977 to aid members of the University community who had special needs and member of the university's board.
Bailour's report summarized the duties of the ambulbsman from June 1978 to July 1979.
"Since grade dispute continue to be a large and frustrating problem of the ambudsman's work," Balfour's report said, "whose whatever body is now studying the possibility of an academic grievance committee will come up with a feasible
The report said students filed 87 percent of the complaints the ombudsman received.
"Thirty-eight pc. cent of those were grade complaints, about which I could do little, since generally the instructor was consistent in his/her grading practices and had proof for the grade," he said in the report.
The report also said students complained about 29 faculty members and 13 teacher assistants and assistant instructors.
"I have felt in the past that the students should have a committee to review grades that are protested," Boullard said.
Ballafu said the committee should be composed primarily of students and faculty.
Balfour said a similar committee was formed at Wichita State University in 1969.
"There would be plenty of hurries to cross," Balfour said.
"The committee would accept the grievance only if all the
Balfour said that he thought a similar committee could be approved at KU, but that there would be some reservations.
"The biggest obstacle would be the professors," he says. Any professor wwry about an overseeing look in his head would find a colleague and this."
MeNish, chairman of the hearing division of the University Judiciary Committee, dismissed charges July 2 filed by Kuly against various KU administrators and law enforcement officials. Kuly charged that officials had violated the Code of Conduct.
SenEx must decide whether Kuby's constitutional right to freedom of speech was denied.
Ruby, a 1979 KU graduate from Lawrence, unfurled a burden at KU's Commencement that "KU Out of South
Kuby refused to surrender his banner to KU police on the grounds that he had a constitutional right to free speech.
The umbundah's office received 146 complaints from June 1978 to July 1, 1979, an increase of 8 from the same period a year earlier.
Undergraduate-41
Graduate-9
Students v. department, school or University regulations practices or employment matters--59:
Faculty v. students -5 (cheating, plagiarism or disruption)
Faculty v. department, school or University-5
Students v. students—3
Employee (nonstudent, nonfaculty) v. employing unit or University-9
Miscellaneous----15: 10 students
2 employees
After reading the assignment for the day, Jim Kuklejski, Independence, Ma., sophomore, rested in Strong Hall before going to Wescoc for an evening class.
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Judge postpones liquor price ruling
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Staff Renorter
Shawnee County District Judge Michael Barbara issued a day postponement yesterday on his Aug. 31 ruling that deemed current liquor pricing and exclusive franchise law unconstitutional.
The stay was the result of a hearing granted after attorneys for the Kansas Department of Revenue fled a motion asking Barbara to vote against the conviction, which could appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
state's minimum retail lugar price markup, a
new-old-ladder help to help small retail
businesses.
Barbara's ruling would have abolished the
The ruling also found the exclusive franchise laws, which were set up by the 1979 state Legislature, to be in violation of the Sherman anti-Trust Act.
The stay Barbara issued is considered effective the day of the original issuing, Aug 31. The ruling may be appealed in writing by the Beverage Control is granted an extension of the stay from the Kansas Supreme Court, Barbara
THE ABC, a division of the Department of Revenue regulates the state's linne industry.
Michael Lenen, secretary of the Department of Revenue, said the agency had filed a notice of appeal with the Supreme Court. It could be several months before the court hears the appeal, he said.
But the court probably will decide today whether to extend the postponement of Barbaras's ruling. Lemen said. A postponement would mean that a claim remain in effect until the court reaches a decision.
The appeal was filed directly with the Supreme Court, rather than with the Court of Appeals,
because the ruling in question deals with the constitutionality of a state law.
If Barbara's order goes into effect, retailers can set an price, over actual cost, for liner.
UNDER CURRENT LAW, some hard liquor prices must be marked up by a minimum of 28.5 percent and most wine prices must be increased by at least 46 percent.
Barbara's ruling labeled the law unconstitutional because it discouraged competition among retailers and therefore was a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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Classified senate code approved
By ELLEN JWAMQTO
Staff Reporter
A senate for about 1,300 nonfaculty classified employee of the University of Kansas met with the part of University government yesterday when a code for the organization was
About 100 classified employees broke out in applause after they ratified the code at a meeting in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Copies of the classified senate code, a petition signed by more than 800 people and formally recognized for formal recognition by the University will be sent to Chancellor Arch. R. Dykes next month to the chairman of the classified steering committee. About 625 classified employee copies are available.
Dykes said yesterday that he would make the final decision on whether the classified senate would be recognized as a University government organization.
ACCORDING TO the code, the classified
senate would be required to meet at least four times a year. The code also calls for proportional representation of the employees in the classified senate of 30 senators. The senators would be elected by the Senate, as defined by Equal Employment Opportunity categories.
For example, the category with the largest number of employees, clerical and secretarial, would have the largest continent of senators. 17.
The classified employees are asking for the right to be represented to the administration, Collins said, so it can make the awareness of ideas and problems that exist.
Collins said he hoped to have the senate in operation by Jan. 1, 1980.
also use the campus mail system to communicate with employees and using campus facilities to interact with similar organizations.
THE CHANCELLOR can act on it himself, Collins said, or he can refer it to another committee or administration of the district, he said, the decision rests with Dykes.
Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the company that said he thought it is a good idea for the employees to organize, but warned that their problems would not miraculously go away.
Dykes said he had not seen any material on the classified senate, but would give it careful consideration when he received the information.
Collins said he thought the University administration would talk and listen to the senate
Zuther said a similar proposal had come before Simonk four years ago. The proposal was that the school's staff, the mittee gave the group the *a* of encouragement. But nothing was heard from him.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said it was "premature" for the administration to make a decision concerning the classified senate.
The reasons include not only obtaining the status of a University governance body, but
The classified senate also is seeking recognition from the KU Student Senate. Margaret Berlin, student body president, and she supported the proposed classified
"THEY WILL BE heard by the administrators," he said, "but in all honesty it will not solve all their problems."
THE SENATE already has run into a snag in its operations, Collins said. Although the senate had approved an office and agency on campus, he said the senate had no mechanism for reaching all of its members.
Five hundred employees are represented by local public employees of the AFLO at the administration. These employees are not allowed to be represented by another.
Eldridge home redresses for another century
in addition, not all classified employees at KU can be represented by the senate.
Staff Renorter
By BOB PITTMAN
Before the end of the year, the Eldridge-
Topham home will be ready to face another
century of Lawrence history.
Since May, the mid-19th century house at 945 Rhode Island Sr., is being undergone extensive renovation at the hands of three local men.
architecture and urban design; Chan Horner, local builder; and John Knapp, Shawnee senior, formed a partnership in Utah to restore the crumbling structure.
John Morris, KU assistant professor of
"It was about to fall down," Knapp said. "Transients had been living in the house. Kids were playing in it, it had been vanished. One place was a fire trench. It was dangerous.
"Now, when our project is finished, I will be able to say that I own one-third of the finest houses in cast Lawrence. Well I will be able to say, 'Well, my old-house that will last another 123 years.'
ALTHOUGH the exact year of the house's construction is unknown, it is thought to have been built around 1857.
In that year, a considerable jump in the property value of the lot—as shown on the
house's title and deed—might have prompted construction, Steve Treaster, local lawyer said.
Treasurer and Lawrence architect Ed Boles have been preparing a paper on the home's history in an attempt to have the home the National Register of Historic Places.
If this house does not have historical
See ELDRIDGE page 11
Lawrence senator asks 9% increase in faculty salaries
Staff Reporter
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an effort to gain early legislative support for a 9 percent pay increase for University of Kansas faculty members. Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence.
Berman said he had succeeded in getting members of the Legislature's interim Ways and Means Committee to take action that would increase on the committee's agenda.
"I tried to emphasize that this should be one of the most critical considerations in discussions of Regents school funding," he said.
Berman said that in the past three fiscal years, the consumer price index had increased 27 percent while faculty salaries had increased only 19 percent.
"BY INCREASING faculty salaries by 9 percent," he said, "we're just trying to catch up with pay increases for other
"There has been a slow but steady erosion of faculty buying power," he said. "If we want to retain high-quality institutions, we must provide adequate pay."
Berman discounted possible objections to a 9 percent pay raise because it would violate President Carter's guidelines on ceiling on wage and salary increases.
state employees, which have been in excess of 10 percent annually."
He said that although the Legislature had voted only 6 to 4% increase恳授 employees, he classified employees received an average of 5% increase in pay an-
So, by voting a 6 percent increase in pay, the Legislature guaranteed classified workers an increase of about 11 percent, he said.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said that KU faculty members would welcome Berman's efforts because double-digit inflation made it difficult to keep up with them.
"WITH INFLATION running at 13 percent annually," said迪克·斯通, the commonly discussed raises of 7 to 8 percent hardly suffice."
Dykes said it was important to begin pushing for the pay raise early, before the Legislature became preoccupied with other budget priorities.
Pay increases for other University employees also might be approved after a faculty pay increase. he said.
"There is always a relation between the pay raises of one segment of University employees and others," he said. "If I were to raise my pay for other employees could follow."
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