THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No.94 Wednesday, February 19, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
2 University administrators resign posts
Rieke quits Med Center for top job at alma mater
By BETTY HAEGELIN Kansen Staff Reporter
William O. Rieke resigned as executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center effective July 1, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes was Tuesday.
Rioke will become president of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., beginning August 1. He flew there Tuesday to accept the position. Earlier in the day he appeared before the Kansas House Ways and Means committee to speak in behalf of budget requests for the Med. Center. No question of his resignation was made at that time.
In a statement released before he left for Pacific Lutheran, Rieke said a reassessment of both his and the University of Kansas' needs and goals prompted his resignation. He said the job offer at Pacific Lutheran was also a deciding factor.
In an administrative reorganization undertaken at the University last semester, business and fiscal responsibilities for the Kansas City campus were given to Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs.
"I AM PERSUADED THAT it is in the best interest of the institution and myself to seek new and different talents for the chief executive's office," he said in the prepared statement. "In addition, I am attracted to opportunities that exist for me on the challenges, opportunities and emoluments are quite different from those that can exist in a public institution."
RIEKIE SAID HE APPROVED the reorganized staff and that the staff has responsiblity for his responsibilities.
Dykes said that he had received no previous indication of Rieke's decision to seek a position in the university been under consideration at Pacific Lutheran. Rieke's alma mater, for some time. Its previous president, Eugene Dykes, died in 2013 and was on leave of absence this year.
"I know Dr. Rieke had turned down the position once before, but this second time it was put too attractively for him to turn down," Dykes said. "Pacific Lutheran is both his and his wife's alma mater, so for them this is a chance to go home."
DYKES SAID H E EXPECTED an acting
author for the Kansas City campus
to be named, but the University had until
committee meeting Duke leaves, to form a new
committee.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said he learned of the resignation late Tuesday afternoon and know any of Rieke's reasons for leaving.
"I am sorry to see Dr. Rieke resign, as he job at the Medical Center," Bickford said.
Russell H. Miller, dean for Medical Center administration, said administrators in Kansas City were not informed of Rieke's decision until Tuesday.
"I think it's a great loss for KU and a great personal loss," Miller said. "It will create some difficulties, because anytime it happens, officer leaves it takes time to readjust."
WHILE RIKEE WAS AT the University, the Med Center has been reorganized to include three separate schools: medicine, nursing and allied health. A building on campus was built for a clinical branch opened and became accredited in Wichita. Rikee said student and faculty numbers had steadily increased, Outreach programs to areas other than we have been started and plans had been made to rationalize approach to health care delivery.
Rieke's wife is also a native of Washington, and received her bachelor's degree from Pacific Lutheran and attended graduate school at the University of Notre Dame. She and three children, Susan, a KU freshman; and Steven, 16, and Marcus, 10, of the home.
Rieke, 43, was born in Odessa, Wash., and graduated with honors from both Pacific University and the Medical School. He taught at Washington until 1966. He went to the University of Iowa College of medicine where he taught, was head of the department of anatomy and was as interested as information.
IN JULY 1971 HE CAME to the Med. Center as chief executive officer, and his title was changed to executive vice chancellor in 1973.
Pacific Lutheran is a liberal arts university with a graduate program. It is a ceducational university with about 3,300 students.
William O. Rieke
Edward P. Bassett
By DEBBIE GUMP Kansan Staff Reporter
Bassett accepts position as USC journalism dean
Edward P. Bassett, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced his resignation Tuesday to become the dean at the University of Southern California.
His resignation came four months after his appointment to the office of academic adjunct.
Bassett said he had been corresponding with USC since last April. He asked them to wait until this month for his decision, he said.
One reason for his resignation, Bassett said, was that he looked forward to directing an urban program in a private initiative. "He's a man of great mass media in a metropolitan setting, he
Bickford, professor of geology, said the new plan would funnel all freshmen and
Assembly rejects CWC advising
He said advantage to the new system was that students would have the same adviser for each class.
"In my view, it's the best undergraduate program on the west coast," he said.
Bassett said another reason he resigned was that he didn't think he was contributing enough to Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"I didn't think I was being effective for him, and it was taking away from journey."
said, as well as a good night school program.
By KEN FULTON
Saricks, who he still wanted to talk to us about his decision, disagreed with Mr. Blake's suggestion.
Kansan Staff Reporter
"I DISAGREE WITH HIM because I don't think it's true," Saricks said. "He's certainly been very faithful in carrying out the functions assigned to him."
The College-Winthin-College (CWC) advising system is out, the School of Religion could soon become an official part of the University of Kansas.
The College Assembly voted yesterday to replace the College-Within-the-Colege advising program for freshmen and sophomores, developed in the middle 1960s, with a consolidated Nunemaker Center advising system.
The consolidated advising system was test tested and will fall other测试结果。
IN THE NEW SYSTEM, freshmen and sophomores will be assigned advisers in the departments they interest. Marion Allen will lead the department eliminated the old CWC system, said. Students will be advised individually rather than under the present practice of group mentoring.
sophomores planning to graduate from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and from the schools of business, education, journalism, pharmacy and social welfare into a single entry point, Nunemaker Center.
THE CENTER WILL be housed in the Nunemaker College building at 1506 Engolm路
The Nunemaker Center officially will open this June for the summer orientation of more than 1,500 prospective freshmen, Bickford said.
Bickford said the plan wouldn't eliminate all the complaints about bad ad advising because there always would be faculty shortcomings.
He said the College Assembly Committee on the Advancement of Instruction and Advising was considering a program of instruction for the faculty. A method of evaluating advising was also being developed, he said.
Robert Cobb, presiding officer of the assembly, said that if the University switched to pre-enrollment, the new admittance would precede pre-enrollment.
Proposed KU budget discussed
During the forum, the assembly discussed a recommendation to make the Kansas School of Religion, located in Smith Hall across from the Kansas Union, a department of religious studies within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Cobb read a proposal listing six requirements considered necessary by the Steering Committee on the School of Engineering could be absorbed into the University.
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING ADJOURNMENT, the assembly had an open forum discussion on a recommendation of the ad hoc University Committee on Adjournment and to incorporate the School of Religion into the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The proposal said that the Board of Regents must provide the following:
Other assembly action included brief reports on curriculum and degree requirement changes, which were quickly adopted.
Kansan Staff Reporter
Bv RICHARD PAXSON
Bassett he wanted to have a job related more to journalism because he would become president of the Association for Education in Journalism next year. His position in Academic Affairs, he said, has made much activity in his field as he would want.
A SURVEY CONDUCTED among the University's classified employees indicated that about 70 per cent of them favored the current monthly payroll system, Dykes and other employees are most University employees other than faculty members and administrators.
"The system has very little to contribute to the University," he said. "Faculty members view themselves as professional employees who want monthly remuneration."
—an additional 2.5 full-time equivalent faculty members beyond the 5.2 generated by the religion school's number of credit hours in 1974-75.
TOPEKA-Opposition to a proposed biewey payroll system at the University of Kansas was an important topic at bearings here Tuesday of the House Ways and means Committee on the University's proposed budget for fiscal year 1976.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; and William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center; appeared before the committee to defend Glen Bean. He then asked the University to restore some items from KU's original budget request by the governor.
"Many classified employees indicated that they had monetary commitments at the beginning of each month," he said. "Their attitude is indicative of the overall attitude of people at the University of Kansas toward the biweekly system."
State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, chairman of the committee, said some legislators were eager to make faculty members more accountable.
"There is sentiment to make faculty more accountable." Lady said. "Regardless of her attitude, she has the right to do so."
STATE REP. DENNON BURGESS, R-Warengo, questioned Dykes about reports of opposition within the University to the implementation of a bivewely payroll system for its employees. Burgess said he had heard that some faculty members opposed the plan because it would force them to make a stricter accounting of their working hours.
Dykes requested that the committee add $121,650 to the University's budget to cover the cost of switching to the biekyek plan if it were implemented in September.
Dykes also asked the committee to restore 400,000 in computer purchase funds and $25,000 for roof repairs to Strong Hill. The budget proposal cut from the budget proposal by Bennett.
Dykes said that this might be true for some faculty members, but that most classified and unclassified University employees opposed the system for other
The request for a 15 per cent increase in operating expenses is also necessary.
Dykes said that inflation had similar effects on the salaries of classified emplovers and those in lower-ranking Regents resolution urging that the Legislature give careful consideration to "some measure which would provide salary benefits and the effects of inflation for these employees."
classified employees no less than our un-classified personnel," he said.
be some attempt in the Legislature to increase accountability."
The University is likely to have a deficit of $238,000 in its utilities budget for this fiscal
year, Dykes said. He said the deficit would result because of an 18 per cent anticipated increase in electric power costs and a 60 per cent increase in sanitary sewer charges.
"Certainly the ravaging effects of inflation have affected the University's
Dykes he would ask the Board of Regents on Friday to increase a supplemental allocation request from $40,000 to $238,000 to make up the deficit.
- academic rank, with present School of Region faculty retaining their present position
In his presentation before the committee, Dykes made special pleas for the proposed 10 per cent faculty salary increase, a 15 per cent increase in other operating expenses and a $150,000 increase for library acquisitions.
The committee will begin hearings this afternoon on the regents' requests for capital improvements at the state colleges and universities.
Faculty salaries increased 38 per cent from fiscal year 1968 to fiscal year 1975, he said, but the cost of living increased 48 per cent during that period. This resulted in a 10 per cent net decrease in the purchasing price of unclassified personnel, Dykes said.
"I DON'T BELIEVE we have any long range plans," he said. "The matter of complying with certain federal regulations is a matter of determining what the women's demands are. The schools are still going to need them. Women want. We still feeling our way."
"We want to emphasize in our request for the 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries both the need to remain competitive with other colleges and universities, and the increases in the cost of living." Dykes said.
THE HEARINGS OPENED with a statement by Elmer Jackson, chairman of the Board of Regents. Jackson emphasized the board's opposition to the inclusion of the employees of the state colleges and universities in the biweekly plan.
"The board seriously questions the wisdom of initiating a procedure that would place unclassified personnel under the supervision of a bewty payroll." Jackson said.
Jackson said he didn't know whether the board would request further increases in funding for women's athletics in future budgets.
Jackson urged the committee to recommend favorably the Regent's proposal for increased state funding of women's intercollegiate athletics. The committee also suggested programs about equal to state support of men's intercollegiate athletics, be said.
—tenure for faculty who now hold tenure in the Kansas School of Religion.
additional facilities and maintenance,
-guaranteed funding for a period of five
years.
an additional 8 classified staff beyond the 1.7 generated by the religious school's mentors.
COBH, ASSOCIATE DEAN of the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the main criticisms of the proposals concerned fiscal problems that might be caused by the economic situation, a possibly narrower definition of what constitutes qualifications of the faculty and programs.
See CWC page 11.
The free atmosphere of Southern California also attracted him, Bassett said. "I want to be my own man in my own shop." he said.
BASSETT SAID he would regret leaving his associates at KU and that he had enjoyed his five years with the university. He also said the controversy over his and Ralph Christoffersen's appointments as associate and assistant vice chancellors for academic
"if he leaves KU, I think it's a great loss," be said. "I hoped I would be able to convince him to stay here. I was afraid this would be the outcome."
Saricks said that Bassett had indicated to him last Saturday that he would take the USC offer, but that he had hoped to talk Bassett out of it.
See BASSETT page 1
Mr. Collister is survived by his wife Dorothy, of the home; a son, Edward, 1203 Iowa; a son, Richard, 1204 Iowa; and a daughter, Chris, of the home.
Director dies after illness
Funeral services for Mr. E.
Gordon Colliser, director of the
counseling center at the University
of Kansas were at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday
Mr. Collister was born Jan. 17, 1914, in Utica, N.Y. He had been the director of the counseling center since 1950.
Mr. Collister died about midnight Saturday of a heart attack. He had been ill with pneumonia for about a month.
Paul Gray's Dixieland Band played at the funeral. Mr. Collisier's remains were cremated at Mt. Hope Crematorium, Topeka.
KU Budget building
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes contemplated a point while reading along with Elmer Jackson, Chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, and Del Shankel, executive view leader.
Pr Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
mittee Tuesday, Jackson's statement presented similar statements by Dykes, Shankar and Dr. William Riekle, head of the University of Kansas Medical Center in