The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, October 22, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 43 USPS 650-640
Dana Shipley, Lawrence junior, manages a smile as she gives blood for the Jayhawk Fight for Life blood drive by the Red Cross. The blood drive continues today from 11:30 a.m. to 5:08 p.m. in the Kansas Union Rallroom. The blood drive is sponsored by the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, scholarship halls and the Association of University Residence Halls.
Berman receives KU endorsements
By IAN SIMPSON Staff Writer
State Sen. Arnold Berman is one of the more popular men at the University of Kansas.
The 2nd District Democratic incumbent has received strong endorsements from KU administrators, faculty and staff. He is campaigned for the position of president, edge, who like Bergman is a law enforcement officer.
On Monday, former KU chancellor Archie Dykes, now chief executive officer of Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. Topека, wrote letters to alumnus to KU alumni and some business groups.
The letter of endorsement was written on Dykes' private stationery and was addressed by hand. Berman said his campaign financed and distributed it.
The campaign staff also mailed letters, signed by 16 faculty and staff members, that backed the campaign.
T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics and a former president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, has also contributed to other signers contributed to the final product.
THE ENDORSEMENT, also sent to KU faculty and staff, said Berman, a member of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and of the Appropriations Conference Committee, "has provided compensation for faculty and staff, proved compensation for faculty and staff, for improved facilities for research and teaching
and for additional money for supplies in his first term in the Senate."
After listing some examples of his support for KU, the three-page letter concludes, "Senator Berman has a remarkable and outstanding record for KU and for faculty and staff, and we know, based on that record, that he will continue to represent us well."
The signers include Srinivasan, Evelyn M. Swartz, professor of curriculum & instruction and president of the KU chapter of the AAPU; Richard Cole, chairman of the chancellor search committee; Richard Cole, chairman of the department of philosophy and Susanne Shaw, associate dean of the School of Journalism and chairman of the board of directors of the University of Kansas
BERMAN SAID HE did not solicit the endorsement.
"He's been good for the University and the city, and he's a member of the Ways and Means Committee. It's good for Lawrence and the university," he said. He has done well for his district," Cole said.
"They prepared the letter, and we handled the mailing." he said. "I'm pleased such a representative and important group of faculty members have chosen to step forward."
"I've heard Berman's opponent. I think she's planning for another office so Lloyd would be for her too."
Berman said his campaign got addresses
he did not know how many letters had been sent.
Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the department of English and one of the letter's signers, said, "I took great care in making sure that we followed procedure in mailing it. As private citizens they wanted to draft the letter and let the rest of the faculty know about it."
The endorsement was typed on undated plain stationery and was sent in hand-address envelopes.
JANE ELDREDGE SHRUGGED off the endorsements.
"Anybody who is a private citizen has the right to endore anybody," she said. "They have expressed their point of five, and it's perfectly acceptable."
"Just because he is on those committees
he means will be selected if re-selected. We
do not believe this."
John Lungsturm, Douglas County Republican John Hainman, said 'Barnhun has been a master of customer service.'
Two KU employees associated with Classified Senate also have written a letter endorsing Berman's candidacy as well as Republican Wint House of Representatives from the 8th District.
He has expected an endorsement of Eldredge from KU employees, where she had written several articles.
JOSEPH COLLINS, vertebrate zoologist at the Museum of Natural History and a member of the Classified Senate executive committee, along with former ClassEx president Jan O'Neill made public their support of the incumbent after he approached them.
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
KU turnover rate slowing decisions
A high rate of administrative turnover at the University of Kansas is affecting the decision-making speed at the University, George Worth, the executive committee chairman, said yesterday.
He said that because people leaving a position tended to defer decisions to their successors, and because newcomers were reluctant to move quickly, a slowdown occurred.
For example, Worth said, University Council had passed several measures last semester that were expected to be quickly approved, but they were delayed until this semester.
"No matter how carefully the change is made," Worth said, "things have fallen into cracks. There is a loss to the University in the turnover."
HOWEVER, RICHARD Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said that a slowdown was expected when position changes occurred, and that it had not been noticeably affected by the changes.
He said that vice chancellors of different departments communicated with each other further.
Worth said that changes in administration made it difficult to deal consistently with administrators because different people had different styles of working and communication
Worth said that there were several reasons people were leaving the University.
ONE REASON, he said, is that salaries are higher elsewhere.
"I do believe that administrators here at the vice chancellor and dean level are not being paid what administrators at other universities are being paid," Worth said.
A recent report by Tom Rawson, Board of Regents research officer, said that faculty salaries at Regents institutions were up to $4,200 and up to $1,000 less than in new institutes.
June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, agreed with Worth.
She said that the more than 35 faculty members who left KU for positions at other universi-
stities or the private sector last year received better pay in their new positions.
"The salary issue is part of why they decide to leave," Michal said.
MICHAL'S BOSS, Ralph Christoffersen, vice chancellor for academic affairs, is the latest administrator to leave the University.
Christoferson was named president of Colorado State University yesterday, effective March 1.
Christofersen said that he was receiving an increase in salary at Colorado State, but that it wasn't enough.
Joseph A. Pichler, former dean of the School of Business, left KU last year to become executive vice president for the Dillon Co. of Hutchinson for about triple his salary at KU.
In an in-office memo recently compiled by the office of academic affairs, several faculty members who left KU said that higher pay in offices was the reason they left the University.
According to Michal, in the 17 years she has been at KU, there has never been a time when so many students are left behind.
THE UNIVERSITY is looking for a chancellor and a director of administrations and records to fill positions.
Former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes left KU in August to become president and chief executive officer of the Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. in Topeka.
John Myers, former director of admissions and records, began working for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce early this month as director of the conventions and visitors' bureau.
The University also has four empty seats where there should be deans - the schools of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Business, Architecture and Urban Design, and Medicine.
Also leave at the end of this semester is Paul J. Wolfe, director of the Academic Computer Center. He will manage a concrete corporation in the Detroit area.
Von Ende said that he thought that it was a compliment to the University of Kansas that several schools sought KU staff members for positions at their universities.
Christoffersen named to Colorado State post
Ralph Christofersen, vice chancellor for academic affairs, was named president of Colorado State University yesterday by the Colorado State Board of Agriculture.
Edmond F. Noel Jr., Board chairman, said 'the Board was pleased with the appointment. Christoffersen will be the 10th president of Colorado State.
CHRISTOFFERSEN SAID that because of Colorado's growing population, the state's need for a high technology school and Colorado State's ability to fill that need, the position of president provided an exceptional opportunity for someone of his experience.
He said he thought the university would be able to actively participate in the state's economy and develop the previously untapped resources of alumni and endowment.
Because 15 to 20 percent more students apply at Colorado State than can be accepted, Christofersen said, declining enrollment will not be a problem while he is president.
Christoffersen said that the Colorado State
He said he probably would assume his duties as president sometime after spring break in
Reduction of Senate size likely
Staff Reporter
By DIANE SWANSON
CHRISTOFFERSEN SAID that he had been happy the 12 years he had been at the University and that the decision to leave had been a difficult one.
Amendments are proposed to the University Senate by a two-thirds vote of the University Council. However, in the absence of a University Senate quorum, amendments become effective approved by the University Council. The council approved the Student Senate amendment Oct. 2.
About 60 fewer senators probably will be elected during the Student Senate elections in November, Gerhard Zuther, presiding officer of the University Senate, said yesterday.
Zuther said there probably would not be a quorum Friday for a special session of the University Senate. The meeting was called to adopt an amendment to the University Senate Code.
Christopherhes has been vice chancellor for academic affairs since 1979 and has worked in many areas.
Christofersen came to KU in 1966 to teach chemistry.
The amendment would cut the size of the Senate from 120 senators to 65.
Zuther said University senate quorum is 265. It includes those with the position of assistant professor or higher, professors with tenure and student senators.
Zather said he was in favor of cutting the Senate size.
THE STUDENT SENATE has 120 senators, one for each 200 students. The petition calls for representatives from each school, determined on the basis of a percentage of full-time enrollment.
“The Student Senate has been kind of foundering the past several years, and if after serious thought they think cutting the Senate size will be a bad idea, we mean it means let them try it. I hope it works,” he said.
"I was persuaded that it was unlikely that I would change my mind," he said. "The timing of the project is so tight."
It designates one representative each for the All Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of Universities, the National Council and Panhellenic, as well as one for off-campus. It also designates three representatives
search committee sought him for the position and said he would do so. No, he was determined to not accept the position.
See SENEX page 5
It will be clear to partly cloudy today, with the high in the mid 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Skies will be from the low in the low 40s, with a low in the low 40s. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow it will be cloudy and cooler with a high in the low 80s. The extended forecast calls for little or no snow and a warming trend Saturday.
DAYE KBAU/S/Koenen stall
Bill Mackey, a journeyman for Kansas Power and Light, attaches new streets. The large wires hanging above Mackey are "jumpers," which divert writing to a transformer on Ninth Street between Vermont and Kentucky current from the transformers making it safe to work on them.