The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, August 26, 1980 Vol. 91, No.3
Computer to modernize Kansas payroll system
By CINDI CURRIE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A 25-year-old payroll system that has meant late paychecks for University employees in the past is close to extinction with the introduction of a computer system being developed in Topeka.
David Ison, a chief accountant of the Kansas Department of Administration, said yesterday that the Kansas Integrated Payroll System, KIPS, could be available to state agencies in May 1982.
KU's payroll system is now done primarily by hand and the staff at the Controller's office has been the mercy deadlines set by the payroll office. It was transferred to Richard O. Steffen, payroll director at KU.
STEFFEN SAID EMPLOYEE benefits such as United Way programs, life insurance programs, savings bonds and union dues had put a strain on the old system.
Because of these strains, the past few months have meant long hours and a lot of overtime. Stefan Koehler
The fiscal year that began July 1 and the addition of new employees to the University has put a crunch on the office in the past few months, he said.
"We have an outdated program and during the summer we have a crunch because of the new fiscal year," Steffen said. "We have to close it up." We have a backyard one back on the payroll for the new fiscal year."
Steffen said that the University had about 1,000 faculty, students, classified and unclassified employees on the payroll, and that the majority of them were employed at the payroll when classes began again in the fall.
"We have to strict strict orders or Topeka will not accept it," he said.
INFORMATION ABOUT employees is compiled in Lawrence and sent to *Toeka* for comp
The new system would alleviate the problem or sending the paperwork to Topeka by a system of telephone communications and magnetic computer hook-ups.
putation of salaries and the writing of employees' checks.
According to Ison, the KIPS system is based on a series of modules designed to encompass the entire process of employment from application to payment of salaries.
The system has been broken down into three phases, Ison said, and phase one—finding the requirements of a new system—has been completed. Phase two, design and development of the system—which includes writing programs and developing flow charts—is now in progress. Phase three is implementation of the complete system.
KIPS is based on four modules, the first module, applicant, will be implemented in early 1981. The second and third modules, the em- ploration module, will be installed in the summer or fall of 1981. Ion said.
The employee module will store information on employees and the position module will supply information on the sources of funding, salaries, and department head count levels.
THE APPLICANT MODULE will store information of job applicants and test results necessary for application.
The final module, the payroll module, will calculate employees' salaries, taking out any taxes.
Ison said the system would be offered to state agencies from the central computers in Topeka.
Keith L. Nitcher, University director of business and fiscal affairs, said that as soon as the program was developed KU would gain access to it.
"We've been waiting for a new state payroll
    see PAYROLL page 5
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Juli Kangas, Kansas City, Kan., senior, found a vacant aisle and a stack of notebooks where she could rest during a lull in her hectic day as a KU bookstore employee.
Members of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition display a banner on the balcony of Hoeh Auditorium at KU's opening convocation. Another banner that read "Thanks for Not Arresting Us!" was later injured.
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
Banners fly at convocation
By KATHY BRUSSELL and RAY FORMANEK Staff Renorters
Supporters of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition unfurled two banners yesterday at KU's opening convoction, sending the same message to KU officials that protesters expressed at commencement May 19. The response from official officials, however, was different this time.
Four members of the coitation maneuvered themselves into the front tier of seats in the balcony of Hoch Auditorium with two banners they had concealed in a backpack before enclosing them, according to Shelley Miller, Lawrence graduate student and supporter of the coitation.
four unobtrusively spread the first banner, which read, "Protect First Amendment Rights at KU," across their laps while Gerhard Zuther, of the University Council, was speaking.
The 21-foot by 45-inch banner was hung over the balcony's rail as the four stood up with the rest of the audience for the national anthem, she said.
Miller, a library assistant at Watson, said the
THE SECOND BANNER was placed over the first when the audience rose to sing the alma mater after an address by Chancellor Carole尔 Delaney and The Honorary Dealer, "Thanks For Not Arresting Us!" Miller said.
In addition to the group displaying the banners, about 15 protesters were seated together on a stage.
Midway through the program, 10 of the protesters removed their outer shirts to reveal T. R.
"FREE SPEECH." The protesters then placed bandanas over their mouths to symbolize being gagged.
Tim Miller, lecturer in religious studies and one of the AFAC supporters arrested at last spring's commencement, was among the protesters on the floor.
Miller said yesterday's protest group was made up of losely organized volunteers.
"There were many more people (involved in the protest at convention) than at commencement, although there was some overlap," he said. "Some people decided they wanted to do something for their friends about it. It was mostly by word of mouth, there was no hierarchical organization."
ACCORDING TO MILLER, the protesters were told that Shankel had made a decision not to return.
Anderson chooses Democrat for ticket
See CONVOCATION page 5
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Independence presidential candidate John B. Anderson yesterday packed former Wisconsin Gov. Patrick O'Brien for Kentucky Democratic, to be his running mate.
Lucey, 62, accepted the offer with a slashing attack on President Carter that resembled many made by Sen. Edward Kennedy during his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination.
Lucey, who was deputy director of Kennedy's
campaign, said Carter had "abandoned" the Democratic party.
"After 30 years in elective politics, I am not a champion of lost causes or hopeless crusades," he said. "John Anderson's campaign has made me think that I should never believe he has a real chance to win this election."
LUCEY CONCEDED he had some misgivings about leaving the Democratic Party "to which I have devoted my political life," but said on
reflection that he had decided it was Carter, not he, who was turning his back.
The liberal Lucy, a longtime ally of the Kennedy family, was twice elected governor of Wisconsin and resigned in 1977 to accept Carter's appointment as ambassador to Mexico. He resigned as ambassador last November, and joined Kennedy's campaign earlier this year.
The two men are considered social liberals, and they matters involving money. Anderson's record is one of the few that
Student vote key in Douglas County election
Bv DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
KU students account for about one-third of Douglas County's population, and area Democratic and Republican coordinators say most resident population will be a prime campaign target.
According to David Berkowitz, Douglas County Democratic Committee chairman, the KU population will play a significant role in the election because of its size.
"Carter could well very well Douglas County." Berkowitz said. "Anderson is already beginning to fade out. His support is failing in national polls. And as we come closer and closer to the final results, realize there are really only two candidates—realize and Reagan. And they will vote for Carter."
"We'll work to turn out the votes, and we're trying to get an informal student group on
"I hope it will become better organized as we near the election," he said. "But we're not talking about a problem of recognition in this crowd. Most people are familiar with Carter's name."
Bill Halvorsen, Douglas County coordinator for Ronald Reagan's campaign, said they also would depend largely on national media to identify their candidate.
BERKOWITZ SAID THERE were no local coordinators planning a campaign blitz for the state.
campus organized." Halvorsen said. "But we lack the money to stage a local campain so we'll need more."
Halvorsen said that although Anderson had an edge at KU, there was a "new feeling of conservatism among students" that was attracting students to Reagan.
"The campus vote will not be enough to offset the county vote," he said.
SEN. ROBERT DOLE's unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination will help more than hurt him in this year's senatorial race. He is the youngest junior and chairman of Young Kansans for Dole.
"Personally I think it helped make his opinions known," Angino said. "It will make people understand his views better. Working in the White House and in state government are two altogether different things and people shouldn't hold his loss against him."
Young Kansans for Dole will work to attract young voters, Angino said. She said the group was planning bumper sticker rallies before football games and fund-raising dinners.
Kathy Schierman, Douglas County coordinator for John Simpson, Dole's Democratic opponent, said she thought that much of the publicity Dole would that year would be detrimental to his campaign.
'A lot of his press seemed to be concerned with 'A lot of other than Kansas,' Schiermann said. "He was very interested in the results."
Unfortunately, a lot of people tend to forget what's happened in the past.
SCHERMAN SAID THAT the size of the KU population made it an important factor in the election outcome in Douglas but said no plans to canvass the campus had been made.
Republican Larry Winn, who has held the third district congress seat for seven terms and who has been virtually unchallenged for a decade, is facing opposition this year.
Kathy Hoggard, campaign co-coordinator for Dan Watkins, Winn's Democratic opponent, said Watkins would pull a "very sizable percentage of the population."
Watkins won 94 percent of the vote in Douglas County in the Aug. 5 Democratic primary and Hoggard said campaign volunteer work was "mushrooming, not slowing down."
"FRIENDS OF WATKINS for Congress" *has* been a registered student organization at KU
*and is a member of the National Student Council*.
Hoggard said Watkins was expected to be in town Sept. 1 for an informal gathering in the Kansas Union. An advisory KU faculty and staff committee for Watkins also is being set up, she said. Door-to-door canvassing and receptions are planned.
Jack Brand, Douglas County coordinator of Winn's campaign, said Winn was planning to spend about 10 days in Lawrence during the next two months.
Status of KU Endowment draws questions
The Kansas attorney general's office is trying to decide whether the Kansas University Endowment Association is a public or private corporation. They think, according to normal standards used to classify corporations, that it is something in between.
The KU Committee on South Africa asked the attorney general's office in July to decide on the status of the Endowment Association. State Sen. Ferdinand J. O'Connor, made the official request for the opinion.
THE KU COMMITTEE on South Africa hopes that the Endowment Association will make their records of gifts and investments available to public scrutiny if it is deemed a public corporation. The committee, composed of students and faculty, has been urging the Endowment Association to divest itself of investments of companies that have interests in South Africa.
Neil Woehrman, special assistant to Attorney general Robert Stephen, said the question of whether a judge should hear a case was
"The real question is: Do the endowment associations of all the Regents schools come under the jurisdiction of the public records act?" Woerman said.
public corporation would have broader applications.
Todd Seymour, president of the KU Endowment Association, said the difference between KU's and other Regents schools' endowments was that KU's received no state aid.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the upper 80s to low 90s. The low tonight will be in the 80s with winds up to 16 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo.
The high Wednesday will be in the mid 80s with winds coming from the northeast.