THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No.100 Thursday, February 27, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER IIIP
Robert's Rules of what?
With advice from Bill Bleasing, Senate parliamentarian, Mary Lou Reece, student body led by adged her way through the first meeting the newly elected Student Senate Wednesday.
Senate ratifies GSC funds
By DON SMITH AND JOHN HJOSTON
Kansas N stuff Remotest
The newly elected Student Senate voted overwhelmingly at its first meeting Wednesday night to approve a bill that guarantees the Graduate Student Council (GSC) 26 cents from each student's activity $_{tot}$.
The vote, 63-12, contrasted with the lively debate before the vote was taken. At one point, some senators cheered the idea of not having school council schools preferential treatment.
The bill amends Student Senate Enactment No. 17, which governs allocation of student activity funds. Under the amendment the GSC will receive about $9,200.
The Senate also passed a bill authorizing Ed Rolfs, student body president, to appoint a seven-member commission to analyze the quality of classroom teaching at KU. The commission will complete its investigation and develop recommendations for improvements.
The commission will work mainly as a fact-finding body, according to Rulfs, who sponsored the bill. The group will attempt to determine how instructional appointments were made, how faculty members are promoted, tenured and assigned teaching loads.
Interviews of award winning faculty members and other segments of the University will be conducted to gather ideas on how to improve the quality of training and commission will also attempt to compare the instructional researchers and classroom instructors.
The final step will be to consolidate the information and to make specific recommendations that various groups such as the administration and the Board of Regents take action. **Note:** kdk10k6.
The improvement of classroom teaching was the issue Rolfs stressed most heavily in his victorious campaign for student body president several weeks ago.
Reaction to the approval of the GSC funds varied but it was obvious that the bill's budget was a lot less expensive.
Tom Donaldson, former president of the Graduate Student Council, said approval of the bill represented a vote of confidence in the council.
graduate students were given a vote of support by the Senate." Donaldson said.
"We felt the main question that came up against our proposal was whether the new Student Senate could effectively vote on a complicated issue," he said. "They did and I think this speaks very well for their ability to do it."
Donaldson said the GSC would begin immediately to talk with graduate organizations who are seeking requests for allocations from the GSC.
Ellen Reynolds, a member of the GSC executive committee, said she wasn't "on her guard" at the time.
"From a very basic viewpoint, I thought the bill was fair and reasonable," Reynolds said. "Also, I was glad the new Senate was ready." He added the action and then the ability to handle it.
"I was extremely pleased to discover that
Reynolds said the vote would give the GSC a psychological boost and said she hoped other school councils would seek similar allocations.
Jeff Southard, Wichita senior, was one of the 12 senators who voted against the bill. Immediately, he had sought to place the bill immediately, he suggested retreat but that motion was rejected.
"I made the motion because I'm not sure people knew what they were voting about." Southard said. "The people don't realize that any time you give more money to one group, you have to take it away from other groups."
Southard also said he questioned the allocation of block sums of money by the Senate because he said that practice would erode the responsibilities of the Academic Committee, the group which presently allocates money to school councils.
Jon Joseerand, Johnson junior, voted against the bill and said it gave the GPC prior authorization.
"I support the idea of funding school councils." Josserand said. "However, I don't support the idea of funding one group and not the others."
The Senate also elected three senators to serve on the Committee on Committees, which will appoint members of the Senate to the standing committees. Steve Sebrecht, chairman of the Student Services Committee, Adrienne Hyle, graduate school
senator, and Gregory were elected to the committee.
Before the "new" Senate opened its regular meeting tonight Rolfs presented a plaque to John Beisner, whom he succeeded two weeks ago as president. The plaque recognized the service Beisner had given to the student body. Rolfs commended the many accomplishments of the Beisner administration.
A plaque will also be given to Todd Hunter, former vice president, who was unable to attend the meeting because of illness.
In a preliminary meeting the "old" Senate elected three holdover Senators that will serve in the new Senate and become members of the University Council. Lewis
Gregory and Tedde Tash罪, who were defeated in their recent bid for student body president and vice president, were elected along with Diane Liven. St. Louis junior
In other action the Senate approved a resolution supporting a call by the NAACP in mass demonstration on May 14 in Boston to urge the Senate to disband there. The resolution was introduced by Leroy McDermott, graduate school senator, and leader of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA).
Craig Adams, a YSA leader from St. Louis, told the Senate the Boston NAACP had called for a mass peaceful demonstration to support the order. He said the demonstration was Conference Against Racism, which had endorsed colleges, had endorsed the demonstration.
House views bills on liquor, residency
By RICHARD PAXSON Kansan Staff Renorter
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee had hearings Tuesday on a bill sponsored by State Rep. Neal Whitaker, R-Wichita, to appeal the state's private club law and to prohibit almost all public consumption of alcohol.
TOPEKA-There's little good news for many University of Kansas students from the Kansas Legislature. The consortium must accept the state except in private homes and the residency requirement for a student to be in-state tuition may be lengthened.
Whitaker said Wednesday that he had introduced the bill as an objection to what he called the state's hypocritical liquor laws.
"It's my contention that if we're going to have liquor at the drink, it's not going to
Whitaker told the committee he hoped the bill would either force a referendum vote on liquor-by-the-drink or return the state to prohibition forever.
Salary rules questioned
BY DEBELLE GUMM
Kansan Staff Reporter
By DEBBIE GUMP
The guidelines, released Wednesday after more than a month of deliberation, propose that women and minority faculty meet with their department chairmen or supervisors to discuss their salaries before the 1976 budget is released.
Guidelines that would help attain salary equality between men and women faculty members have run into opposition from an Affirmative Action faculty committee.
If no agreement can be reached, the faculty member can appeal the department's decision to the appropriate dean, director or vice chancellor. The person who carries the original salary decision would also file his justification for the proposed salary.
Once a salary has been agreed upon, a statement signed by both parties will be sent to the employer.
Frances Ingenman, chairman or a committee of the Unclassified (faculty) Women's Advisory Unit (UWAU), said that although she was glad the University had offered these open-ended opportunities, she thought a faculty shouldn't be the first to protest an inquity.
THE BURDEN OF PROOF that discompanies ought to lie with the University.
Ingemann also said that many women might be poorly informed about the salary requirements.
"Women may not really know what an equitable salary is." she said.
In addition, she said, a woman might be signing away her legal right to appeal her salary rate when she signed the final salary agreement.
Ingemann also mentioned the possibility that a faculty member would fear retaliation from her department if she protested her salary.
"It is very difficult for a person who is in a position whereby her future may be decided by men in her department to protest very loudly about her salary," she said.
ANY PROTEST BY A faculty member
may beset her tenure or promotion
changes.
"Some women may just feel intimidated by the whole situation," she added.
Similar reservations were brought up at a meeting Wednesday morning between Del Shank, executive vice chancellor, and committee members, she said.
Shankel said the guideline were *n* a compromise and probably wouldn't be to them.
Specifies of the guidelines were worked out at a three and a half hour meeting Saturday with administrators and Affirmative Action representatives, he said.
Shankel said that since the procedures called for a department chairman to automatically set up conferences with all women and minority faculty members, no one would be in the position of being the first to complain.
The guidelines were formed after a study by the Office of Institutional Research and Priority Investigator revealed that women at nearly all ranks in the salaries than men in most departments.
"It's not a solution that will really please
a home but we feel that this will be a fair
approach."
At the time that study was released, Larry Sherr, ORIP acting director, expressed doubts that the study represented actual salary discrimination.
"It could be that the individual is not producing as well as she could be. On the other hand, she might have been discriminated against. We are not going to get the answer to that question on the basis of what we know. The summaries are very easy to misinterpretr. At best they are a signal to suggest areas that need further study."
Shankel sent copies of the guidelines to all administrators after Wednesday's meeting with members of the UWAU.
The guidelines will be used next week to determine faculty salaries for the coming year, he said, but another study of faculty salaries will be made by ORP before the budget is completed to insure that no discrimination will occur.
Free checking waits for leader, banks say
(Editor's note: This is the second of two stories about free checking. Today's story
By JAN HYATT AND KEN FULTON
Kansas City, Mo, banks first offered free checking last July, when one big downtown bank initiated the competition by beating the others by a few days.
Only one suburban bank in greater Kansas City, which describes itself as basically a bank for business interests, offers free checking. The others say they can't afford to cover the loss of service charges.
Free checking, like most trends that start on the east and west coasts, has moved slowly toward Kansas and still hasn't reached Lawrence.
Kansan Staff Reporters
In Lawrence, checking for many customers is becoming more expensive. Effective March 1, two of Lawrence's four banks will have increased charges on regular checking accounts. Another is seriously contemplating a similar step.
Free checking for the average customer isn't offered in many cities in Kansas. The only ones that do offer it are some small towns whose banks never instaled checking service charges after federal regulations first allowed them in the late 1930s.
ALL FOUR LAWRENCE BANKS offer modified free checking, which is unlimited checking at no monthly service charge and no charge for each check written, provided
Although all four banks said they couldn't afford to provide free checking, only Lawrence National Bank said it wouldn't offer free checking even if the others did.
that a specified balance is maintained
Lawrence banks require a 2900 balance.
John Peter's, senior vice president of Lawrence National Bank, said that free checking was just like other premiums, and it is more expensive than the premium and not the bank's other services.
Peters said that free checking was a good way for a young bank to build its assets quickly, but that he personally was against premiums and gimmicks.
Lynn Anderson, vice president of First National Bank, said the Kansas City banks that offered free checking were worried that falling business profits would lead to diminished business deposits and losses on commercial loans and investments.
"This is just a gimmick to attract people," he said.
THEY ARE TRYING to attract consumer deposits and are using free checking to enter a field of banking they have ignored in the past, he said.
Anderson said Lawrence banks had always been consumer banks. Kansas City's big banks are impersonal and bureacratic businesses that can't offer
"The large commercial banks in downtown Kansas City have gotten themselves into trouble."
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By Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
Hoopla
just for a select few, such as in country clubs and fraternal organizations," he said.
A break from classes *gave* Charles Nelson and Dennis Gates, Chanute seniors, a chance Wednesday's warm weather with a quick gamm on the basketball court behind Templina.
"The possibility exists that this bill will pass," Whitaker said. "I'm very serious about it. Once the state's dried up, there'll be an outcry for liquor-by-the-drink. Then citizens of Kansas who can't make up their minds will get what they've asked for."
Both Kansas voters and use Kansas Legislature have expressed their opposition to liberalizing the lour laws, Whitaker said. He said voters had rejected liquor-by-law legislation in the 1974 Kansas House and the 1975 Kansas House had voted down revisions of the laws.
The committee is expected to make a recommendation on the bill within two months.
The bill, sponsored by the Ways and Means Committee at the request of the Board of Regents, increases the period of required residence to 12 months.
Under the present law, a student must have lived in the state for at least six months before the semester in which he begins in order to get in-state tuition rates.
The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to increase the time a student must live in the state before he is allowed to pay in-state fees at the state colleges and universities.
"We have seen a consistent decrease in fee collections," Bickford said. "The number of students classified as nonresidents for fee purposes has dropped."
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said Wednesday that the Regents had requested the change because of financial stress from the collection of out-of-state tuition.
The board can better decide after 12 months whether a student came to Kansas to establish a permanent residence or merely to attend school, he said.
Sick leave tuition help examined
Faculty sick leave and tuition assistance programs for University of Kansas employees were sent by SenEx Wednesday to the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee (FRPR) for consideration.
The sick leave plan has been under consideration for some time, and has gained the favor of the college because of a call last month from the faculty to have a closer check on faculty work loads. The plan would require that more detailed work records be kept by the university so faculty can keep track of those records.
Some plan must be developed if retiring faculty members are to receive compensation for unused sick leave. Retiring faculty must be up to 100 paid days for unused sick leave.
SenEx members also expressed concern for the financial situation of some faculty members who were presently sick. James Wetmore, a former Board member of Endowment Association was paying these professors a type of sick leave payment, but that a definite policy was needed for the institution.
Francis Heller, member of SenEx, said he
wished at least four staff faculty members
"The Endowment Association hates like the dickens to pay any salaries because they're afraid it jeopardizes their tax status." Heller said.
DRAFT GUIDELINES FOR the implementation of a Kansas Senate bill providing tuition assistance for University employees were sent to FRPR for conference assistance will be provided for employee applicants faculty positions in teaching research
See SENEX page 3