THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol.85-No.77 Monday, January 27, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
SUA funds depleted
By JAN HYATT
Korean Staff Reporte
Kansan Staff Reporter
Board members of SUA last Thursday took red pens to a financially exhausted budget and canceled 18 films scheduled for the spring semester.
In addition, no more major speakers will be invited for the SUA Forums series, and all concerts will be produced by outside promoters who will guarantee an amount of money to SUA, according to Dave Murfin, SUA board president.
The board also decided to raise the price of tickets for popular films from 75 cents to $1 beginning Friday, and for children's films from 50 cents to 75 cents beginning Sunday. Saturday and Sunday upwards will be "Gentlemen of the Guard" and "Seraph," have been canceled.
The measures were taken after the accounting of last semester's expenses showed that SUA had gone significantly into debt. Murfur said Saturday.
The board had spent more than the $16.771
The concert by Yes, a rock, group, was a production financially guaranteed by the promoter, so SUA didn't take a loss on it, Lindeman said.
Lindeman said as many concerts as possible would be scheduled.
Except for the Count Bass concert scheduled for March 21, all SUA concerts this spring will be guaranteed by a promoter, Lindman said. SAU decided to produce the Bass concert before there was a change in the concerts policy.
The appearance by Count Basie has been moved from the Union Ballroom to Hochstetten, where he will perform at a cheaper price, Betty Barker, SUA president relations director, said. The chairs on the floor of the auditorium will be removed to make room for dancing, she said.
For the first time, the SUA film series lost money for the fall semester, according to
She said she thought the increased price
For the first time, the SUA film series lost money for the fall semester.
allocated to it last spring for a year's programming by the Kansas Memorial Corporation, the body that oversees the operation of the Kansas Union.
"The reason we're in such bad trouble is that our revenue producing areas, special events and films, have had problems," Murfin said.
Eton John, George Harrison and Chicago all had set concert dates with SUA for last fall. The two musicians signed, Murfin said. The cancellations caused problems in scheduling other performers because of the shorter amount of time between scheduling and signing contracts, he said.
The concerts that were produced lost money, Ritch Lindemann, SUA special events chairman.
Those concerts were a performance by Kansas, a rock group; the homecoming concert was wicked and the Righteous Brothers; the concert featuring Sly and the Family Stone.
of tickets and the economic recession
did the drop in attendance at films last
fall.
Tolentino said that she was satisfied with the quality and selection of films offered last fall and that she had heard both criticism and praise of the programming.
Film distributors have begun new rental policies that prevent many universities from using their libraries.
The films that were canceled were chosen first by looking at the rental costs and then speculating on the attendance they would draw, she said. Films that remain on the schedule are expected to make a profit or break even.
The film series won't employ ticket-
takers at the door of Woodruff Auditorium for the rest of the semester. Tolentino said, which usually were given free passes to films.
The chairman of the different film series will serve as tinktakers she said.
Other economizing measures will include
By Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
spending less money on advertising and not
paying for ads. wallet cards that list film titles and show
Handy hideout
Crouching behind a piano to hide from the "Big Bad Woll" during Sunday's "Faculty Follies" at Swarthout Recital Hall is "Little Pig" Antony Percez, assistant professor of voice. The scholarship benefit "Folles," which consisted of a variety of musical acts, was sponsored by Pi Kappa Lambda. See review page 8.
Tolentino said she thought the films
were the spring schedule composes a good program.
"But it's really disappointing to have a
threat to us. We have to have
have to cape so many of them," she
added.
The films that were canceled are five in the film society series—"Joan of the Angels," "Dark Passage," "Raw Deal," "The Bicycle Thief" and "My Night at Mabel," "Sweet Caroline," "Charlotte's Web," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," "The Island of the Blue Dolphin" and "The Swiss Family Robinson," three in the classical series—"The Laughter in Paradise"; three in the American directors series—"Dodsworth," "A Song is Born" and "The Incredible Jewel Robbery"; two in the genre series—"Ru Brave" and "Star Witness"; and one in popular series—"Anne of a Thousand Daves."
Murfin said the concerts and films traditionally had provided funds for all other SUA programs, so when they lost money, the other areas were affected.
SUA will keep a contract with Noel Neill, the actress who played Lois Lane on the "Superman" television show, for a program Feb. 19 in the Union Ballroom, according to
See SUA page 7
Going Nowhere . . . Fast
Exerting all his strength at Sunday's "Roller Races" in the Kamson Union Ballroom, Drew Coradar, Lawrence High School's band, was a huge hit.
By Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
racerers was required to complete a "run" of 1,500 meters. The race was compoised by the Mount Ocreet Olympic Club and
SenEx exigency compromise ready
By BETTY HAEGELIN
Kansan Staff Reporter
SenEx will decide Wednesday the fate of
Bryan for desiring to leave
exciting聘吧 will go to Friday.
Financial exigency is that condition in which the University is forced to release tenured faculty members because of financial crisis.
This latest report attempts to reconcile differences between two previous ones. The first was presented by a former SenEx subcommittee in July 1973 and the other was presented by the Committee of Concerned Faculty Members in August 1974.
Joel Gold, chairman of the SenEx subcommittee that was charged five months ago to reconcile viewpoints on the subject, said Friday that the two opposing groups weren't as far apart as had been originally believed.
"We were able to argue and squabble points out and thereby covered these points of view and others that were in neither of the two earlier reports," Gold said. "This report very accurately reflects the opinion of the committee."
Although this defined condition must be universally-wide and be reached only as a beginner's exercise, it may also
A major compromise in the five part draft document, which met few objections but has yet to be approved by SenEx, is in the definition of financial exigency. The University has been described as the descriptive only of the University as a whole, a unique and compelling financial crisis that would jeopardize the ability of the University to maintain its position as a quality institution, unless faculty positions at the university be or more tenured faculty members . . ."
faculty as a result of the declaration would be implemented only in designated units, whether that unit be a department, division or school, and not by across-the-board cuts as were recommended by the Concerned Faculty group.
Thus, the Chancellor will determine that a state of financial exigency is imminent and will present documentation to support this conclusion to the University Council Committee on Planning and Resources and to SenEx. After receiving a joint response from them, the report provides that the state of financial exigency will be designated one or more units within which tenured faculty members are to be released.
"The Chancellor decides if he wants to declare exigency and can do so even if we disagree," Adrienne Hyle, vice chairman of the subcommittee, said. "However, this is not a problem of where in the University we can cut and still possibly catch up on at a later date."
The unit chosen for faculty reduction will be one in which evidence shows that reduction in that unit would least seriously damage the institution's reputation, and the Chancellor must provide supporting documentation that would indicate why the reductions have to come from the particular institution.
It then stipulates that a unit affected can appeal to the University Council. The Council can then make recommendations concerning alternative or supplementary actions which can be taken instead of faculty reductions in those units, but can't recommend reductions in units not designated by the Chancellor, the report
Committee to investigate sex discrimination charges
The committee has been charged by Hamer to investigate not only last semester's charges by Willner but also her 1972 charges. All interviews will be
Charges that the department of political science has committed sexual discrimination have resulted in the formation of an investigative committee that will report to the Office of Affirmative Action.
The committee's chairman is Jadwiga Mauer, professor of Slavic languages and literature. Other members are Donald Beer, professor of human development; Anta White, professor of anthropology; and Eric Wright, professor of psychology. The committee's legal adviser is Webster Golden, associate professor of law.
The committee was formed by Vicki Hamer, acting director of the office, to investigate charges made in September by Ann Willem, professor of political science. Mr. Hamer will leave from the University and is teaching at Queen's College in New York.
Willner said in a letter Sept. 27 to Chancellor Archie R, Dykes that the department had violated Affirmative Action procedures, discriminated in its recruiting practices and personally discriminated against her.
Willner made similar charges against the department in 1972, but the Affirmative Action board cleared the department of the charges.
Maurer said Sunday that the committee had originally planned on a six-week investigation but that it had postponed the completion date to investigate other relevant subjects. Maurer wouldn't discuss either the relevant subjects or a committee meeting Saturday with Golden, the committee's legal adviser.
recorded, and tapes and transcripts will be turned over with the committee's final version of the plan.
Council, fully documenting his reasons for the decisions, the report says.
"One way in which the effects of financial exigency might be dampened somewhat is by the adoption of a proposed alternative. Under the proposal, the affected unit could
present a plan for fractional appointments that would replace the need for outright
Arthur Brehphoi, professor of electrical engineering and SenEx member, said research grants could make up for a loss in
See SenEx page
Board proposes cuts in parking zone rates
A decrease in the cost of X-zone, O-zone and residence hall parking permits will be one of the main effects of a proposal by the Transportation Traffic Board, if the proposal is accepted.
Phill Frickey, chairman of the board, said Friday that the proposal was based on the geographic undesirability of the various parking lots.
"It's kind of obvious that X-one and O-one don't have the advantages that X-two and O-two have."
Under the proposal there would be two different rates for on-campus parking. Now all permits cost $2.75. The price for a permit to X-zone or O-zone would go down to $25, and the price for closer campus parking would rise to $30 according to the proposal.
Residence hall parking permits, which now cost $17.50, would cost $15 if the proposal is passed, and service permits, issued to those who aren't officially employed by the University but who are often on campus. would rise from $10 to $15.
The changes probably wouldn't cause an increase in revenue, Frickley said.
"What we're doing is readjusting where the revenue is coming from," he said.
Frickey was he had once been on a Student Senate task force that had come to the conclusion that students had been paying too much for parking, if one considered that many of them parked a long way from campus. Similar things were brought before the University Council before, he said, but none has passed.
One of the reasons that frequently had been given for defeating the proposal was that some staff members were assigned to make deliveries from buildings close to the university campus, and not suffice to make sure the park was for parking when they had to park, Frickey said.
He said the current proposal was less
"I want to stay far, far away from any student versus faculty thing," he said.
extreme than some of the others, however,
and that students, faculty and staff mem-
bers are required to take the
The board also is proposing two other changes in parking permit rates. Frickey said it was proposing to change the daily rate for lot parking from 20 cents to 25 cents and to change the number of cars owned by parkers who occasionally crowd parking permits hold out of O-zone.
The other proposed change would tackle the problem of courtesy permits, which are often required for parking or to permit. The problem, Frickey said, is that students sometimes have a car on campus for a long enough time to require some sort of permit but not long enough to make them pay.
The board is proposing that such students be issued a temporary sticker for a flexible curriculum.
"I would say that I'm very optimistic that we can get it through University Council," he said.
Gerhard Zuther, a member of the Council, said he didn't want to speculate on what the Council might do about the proposal because he was presiding officer.
He said, however, that he didn't think it was mandatory for the Council to pass the board's proposals, merely that it was in his own power, the board to present an annual report.
"It items like a perfectly reasonable system to me," said God, a member of the council.
Gold said, however, that he count's predict what the whole Council might do. "I've been surprised frequently by what happens in there," he said.
one proposal also will be to be approved by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes if it is approved.
Libraries' problems called fiscal
Several inadequacies in the University's libraries have developed because the library hasn't been accorded sufficient priority within the University's budget, James Helyar, assistant director of the University's libraries, said last week.
A lack of space, low morale, a staff that too small, low salaries and old and worn equipment were among the problems cited in a report released in November by three outside consultants who evaluated the University's libraries.
The consultants were Carl Jackson, dean of libraries at Indiana University; David Kaser, professor of library science at Indiana University; and Warren Dean, dean of libraries.
Although the consultants praised the
libraries' resources, they said that access to the collections was inadequate. This lack of availability of the collections is primarily the result of a lack of space for displaying the collection and an insufficient number of records that the libraries are open, the report said.
We are also in the process of creating a student-faculty-staff committee to study the
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said the librarian's problems were related to
the lack of library staff.
Shankel said, "We have requested, and the governor has approved, more student hourly funds so that we may pay a higher minimum wage. He has given us $163,000 to bring salaries up to the federal minimum wage standards.
space problems of the University libraries. They are looking at a variety of possibilities to increase library space at the University."
If the committee finds that more space is needed, Shankel said, financial requests would have to be taken to the government. "University doesn't have sufficient funds available."
Helyar said virtually all of the problems were because of inadequate hands encountered were because of inadequate training.
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"It's a vicious circle," Helyar said. "If we don't have the proper space and equipment, then it costs more to run the operation. If we don't have the proper space or more time is sent moving books around."