Schools search for solutions to athletic cost squeeze
MARK ZELIGMAN
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Kansen Staff Reporter
The financial crunch in college athletics appears to be reaching a critical point.
Last Tuesday, in an appearance before the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said that unless the University got costs within its ability to afford them, there would be an end to college athletics as they now exist.
Earlier this week, the NCAA sponsored a seminar of college presidents and athletic directors in North Carolina.
Next week, the athletic director, the representative and president of estee lae. Eight school will in Kansas to Miae, Mo. One of the meetings of discussion will be financial problems.
ONE POSSIBLE REMEDY is a limit on the size of football coaching staffs. According to Chuck Neivas, conference commissioner, a 10-leach limit will probably be passed without resistance at the meeting.
Athletic Director Clyde Walley is the chairman of the committee charged with studying the size of the college athletic teams.
mittee would meet next Wednesday night and
prematurelycommendation to the conference on
next Thursday.
Walker wouldn't predict whether the proposal would pass, but he did say that the consensus was to keep it private.
"MOST OF THE PEOPLE I've talked to in the conference think that 10 coaches is a reasonable number," Walker said. "This measure might affect event coaches from adding additional personnel."
Dykes was the first to say publicity that the conference was considering such a move. He mentioned it when he spoke before the Ways and Means Committee.
Oklahoma's 14 full-time assistants make up the largest staff in the Big Eight.
KU has 11 full-time coaches the head coach and 10 assistants, which is the same number it had last year, Walker said. According to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) audit for fiscal 1974, KUAC will not lose its last year. Walker said the new staff's total salary would probably be slightly lower.
said, "I don't think it's out of hand now at our school. Evidently, some of the schools in the conference have a few more than others. Well be aware that this is not the size of all the staffs in athletic departments."
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"IT'S AN AREA that can get out of hand," he
Some universities have withdrawn scholarships for their nonrevenue production in an effort to save money. Others have dropped such sports altogether because the University of Vermont dropped its football team.
Dykes and Walker have repeatedly voiced opposition to dropping KU's minor sports.
"It's absolutely essential that we have a well-rounded program," Dykes said. "But, it's impossible to provide a well-rounded program for males and females at the present costs."
WALKER SAID, "We are continually assessing our program. The thing we're fighting here is the same thing everyone else is fighting; inflation. We want to be more aggressive and I like to find ways of raising additional revenue."
Walker said the athletic department had made significant progress at increasing income since he came to the University. An example, he said, is the record fund-raising year they just completed.
A record $417,000 was raised this past calendar year. Walker said. This surpassed the goal of $400,000. He said the ultimate goal was raising enough money to pay for all athletic scholarships, which cost $663,094 last year according to the KUAC audit.
KUAC RECEIVES no money from the state, Walker said. However, the state allocated about $70,000 last year specifically for administrator salaries, he said.
Walker said he didn't think the legislature would appropriate a specific dollar amount to KU's program, but that there were several ways for the state to do it. A practice not uncommon across the country.
Walker would go to detail about other ways in which the state could help.
In 1973, the Kansas Board of Regents would to ask the Kansas Legislature for about $500,000 in tuition waivers. The money would be split among the universities at the six state colleges and universities.
KU WOULD HAVE received about $190,000 of the money, 75 per cent of which would have gone for
tuition waives for varsity athletes. That proposal, however, was deleted from the state budget recommendation by State Budget Director James Bibb in November 1973.
Walker said that the tuition waiver wasn't included in the current budget recommendations.
The KU athletic department, Walker said, is in much better shape than many others across the country.
"The significant thing in all of this is that three years before I came here, we were one-half million dollars in debt," he said. "Since I've been here, with the spiraling costs and inflation across the country, we've been able to bring our program in line financially and are able to hold our own."
WALKER SAID KUAC'S operating deficit had reduced been from $250,000三年ago to $15,000. KUAC lost $2,525 in fiscal year 1974 KUAC got $50,084 the previous year, according to the audit.
A loss of about $2,500 in a budget of more than $2 million is almost inconsequential, Walker said.
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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Exigency amended for affirmative action
Vol. 85—No.96 Friday, February 21, 1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By BETTY HAEGELIN Kansan Staff Reporter
The University Council approved Thursday compromise amendments to the financial exigency report to make it comply with affirmative action guidelines.
Gold said the amendments arose out of an hour and a half meeting he had with Bonnie Patton, affirmative action director, and with the former acting director of the office and the chairman of the affirmative action committee.
Also passed by the council was a change in the University Senate code that would allow the council to act in the absence of a quorum at University Senate meetings.
- one code change will have to be approved by the Senate before taking effect. The complete experiment must be conducted next week and, if approved, will be sent to the Senate.
This would have been in violation of affirmative action guidelines, Joel Gold, exigency committee chairman, said. A position must be advertised before it is filled, and each applicant must be given an equal opportunity to fill it.
Sections of the exigency report dealing with the reinstatement of tenured faculty members were changed. Wording in the original document would have given a vacant position to a tenured exigency priority consideration for a vacant position in any unit of the University.
The compromise would allow a released professor priority for an opening in his own unit but in no others. The openings in these other department units would be advertised. Released faculty members could apply for these like anyone else.
Financial exigency is a condition in which the University is forced to release tenured faculty members because of a financial crisis. University administrators would be required under the exigency report to review the condition of the University each year and rehire released members when the period of crisis had passed.
The amendment evoked some strong opposition from various council members. They said the University's commitment to people under financial exigency was stronger than that under affirmative action guidelines.
"Financial exigency seems a far more compelling and real condition than the hypothetical rights of some person under affirmative action, who's never had any connection with the University," Edward Grier, professor of English, said.
"A PERSON WHO'S been at this university 20 years deserves a break even if he's not the best qualified person to take the job. Dr. Daicoff, professor of economics, said.
But another member of the council said that if this happened the rights and needs of students would be ignored. The member thought that students would suffer if forced to take courses from instructors primarily trained in other disciplines.
But Daicoff said that when department of defense workers were laid off by the federal government, they were given priority consideration in three other positions of their choice, with no regard to affirmative action.
"IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT can violate the spirit of affirmative action, I see no reason why KU can't do the same," Daidfoff said.
Some members expressed the idea that it might be more appropriate if affirmative
LA publisher wins W.A. White award
Otis Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has been named the 1975 recipient of the William Allen White national award for journalistic merit.
The citation is given annually by the William Allen White Foundation to an American journalist who exemplifies his service to his profession and his country.
Chandler, who will become the 28th recipient of the honor, has been publisher of the Times since 1980 when he was named to the post by his father, the late Norman Johnson.
The citation will be presented in a ceremony on the University of Kansas campus later this spring. The date will be announced later.
Otis Chandler is vice chairman of the Times Mirror Co., which also publishes Newsday on Long Island and the Dallas Times Herald.
Chandler, 47, will be recognized for his work in developing the Times into one of the nation's foremost newspapers. Under his leadership and direction, the Times has become a leading daily newspaper. It has bureaus throughout the world, including a prize-winning Washington bureau.
Otis Chandler
He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work, including the University of Southern California Distinguished Achievement Award, the Columbia University Journalism Award, the Missouri University Medal of Distinguished Service in Jour-
action guidelines were altered, rather than the financial exigency report.
nalism and a Doctor of Laws from Colby College. Waterville, Maine.
Robert D. Adams, associate professor of math and a member of the exigency committee, said that the amendments made a drastic change from the previous working, but that the compromise was necessary.
"We're talking about a real financial crisis situation, and I don't think affirmative action goals are so firm that they should override obligations under financial exigency." Robert Casad, professor of law, said. "I think a belief in the rule should be to amend affirmative action guidelines rather than change exigency considerations."
In his work with the Times Mirror Co., Chandler serves with former KU Chancellor Franklin Murphy, who is chairman of the board.
Chandler is a graduate of Stanford University.
"IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT REALITY is on this campus, that wording is what we're going to have to live with to keep the University a viable and enlightened institution under exigency," Adams said. "To have a released faculty member have first priority over every other person in each given unit is unenable."
The proposed code change that would allow the council to act for the Senate must be approved at the next meeting of the Senate. The amendment provides that if a quorum is absent at a Senate meeting, actions taken by the University Council become effective the day of the scheduled Senate meeting.
Last year's recipient of the White award is Arthur Gehling Suizerlberg, publisher of the *New York Times*.
Although the calendar committee of the Senate voted unanimously against a proposal to move the spring semester up a week in the 1976-1977 school year, the Senate debated on the question before a motion to move the dates narrowly defeated.
HUGH COTTON, CHAIRMAN OF the calendar committee, said student members had objected to the proposed plan because it wouldn't leave enough time for fraternity and sorority rush week. He also said many faculty members were against the change because they used this time to do research and to make up work from the fall semester.
Cotton said that this problem could be eliminated by having faculty members report Aug. 20 and work until May 20. But Ingemann said that orientation period would begin Aug. 16, and faculty members would have to on campus by that time.
"I think we should have a legal opinion as to whether a faculty member is required to give an exam beyond the date of his pay period," he said. "This takes up with the University attorney."
Lightfooted leap 87 Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
During a Thursday afternoon jaunt to class, Joe Gilman, Poole junior, skipped over a 4- foot puddle in front of Watson Irrary. More puddles are forecast today, along with possible rain and higher temperatures.
Campus crimes rise 52%
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Serious crimes reported to the University of Kansas Security and Parking Department increased approximately 52 percent from 1973 to 1974.
Kanean Staff Renorter
This figure compares with a 20.9 per cent increase in serious crimes reported to the Lawrence police during the same period.
Nationally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hasn't made available critical statistics for the first nine months and measured for the first nine months showed a 16.9 per cent increase in reported
serious crimes from the same period of 1973.
Serious crimes are called Part 1 offenses in FBI statistics. These crimes are: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter; manslaughter by negligence, raids, including reported attempts; robbery; assaults, including aggravated and nonaggravated; larceny, including petty larceny (larceny under $50); and auto theft.
Crimins which weren't included in the statistics are misidentified offences and crimes.
Mike Thomas, director of the KU Security and Parking Department, said Thursday
- Perhaps students are becoming more aware of crimes occurring and more aware of victims' rights.
that he didn't really know a specific reason why crimes reported to Security and Parking had increased $2 per cent while the other crimes had increased only 20.9 per cent.
he said he thought that crime statistics across the nation had shown that the annual crime rate in university towns and cities was higher than in other types of towns and cities.
Universities have so many nonresidents See CRIME page 3
Advice plan best feasible Lewis says
By JIM McLEAN
Korean Staff Reporter
The Nunemaker Center will be very flexible, Lewis said, and a student will be able to change an adviser easily if his area is too small. All areas will be available at the center.
The consolidated Nunemaker Center advising program, which will replace the Colleges-within-the-College (WCW) program in June, is the best of all possible plans to meet their needs. Dr. Lawrence Louis, associate director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Lewis said that Thursday the CWC program made it awkward to assign students to advisers in their particular area of interest. The pool of available advisers was broken into small units with ad-hoc area, area assigned to each individual college.
TALKING WITH A FACULTY member in
the student room on a one-to-one
basis with the students.
Lewis said the CWC program experimented last summer with group advising and large meetings to explain his observations but students said they didn't like it.
A report in March 1972 of the ad hoc committee on the future of CWC reported that "geographical decentralization is a convenience for the students . . . The committee also felt that the assignment of under class students to small staffs enables staffs to help the transition from high school to the university atmosphere."
Levin said of the committee report that he had thought it was true, but it didn't turn out.
"We think we can provide better information at one location than at five. There are always a few that don't work."
"We were simply wrong" he said. "We thought five separate facilities would be better than one. Our experience over the past nine years has proved this isn't the case."
LEWIS SAID the center would be able to provide almost any type of help the student needed. If the center needs people from financial aid, the center will have them, Lewis said. All the student needs to do is to ask the wants and we will provide it, he said.
"We really see it as a plus, something positive." Lewis said of the center.
David Paretsky, professor of microbiology and a member of the CWC bac committee, said the reason the committee was originally formed at the recommendation of George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, stemmed from dissatisfaction of students with the advising they received.
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Time to shift ahead 1 hour
Saturday night parties beware.
Sunday morning hangovers will come an hour earlier this week thanks to Central Daylight Time (CDT). The time switch will officially take place at 2 a.m. Sunday when clocks across the country should be turned forward one hour.