THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85-No.76 Friday, January 24, 1975
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Dust Bowl
mounting and grounds employee Bob Livingston kicks up a cloud of dust over Jawhack Boulevard early Thursday morning.
Building and grounds has worked the last week to clear the streets of sand left over from January snows.
Dancing bug to entertain
A dancing concerts will open the second of this season's Concerts for Young People
The University of Kansas Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, a dance club for students, will perform in the program, "Don't You Join the Dance?" which will comprise three sections, Elizabeth Sherbon, faculty adviser, said Thursday.
The segments of the dancing caterpillar will demonstrate steps and techniques used in dance performance.
Reginald Brown, Topeka graduate student, and Julia Winnela, Ill., sophomore, will be the informal master and mistress of ceremonies for the opening of the program at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Lawrence High School auditorium.
The audience will be invited to join in a clapping round, which will illustrate how musical notes can be visualized. Names of the audience will be danced out to show rhythm.
In the second section, jazz, modern, ballet and folk dancing will be performed.
The difference in dance styles will be demonstrated by using jazz and modern, which originated in the United States, and folk dancing, which came from Europe.
Excerpts from "T Plays it cool" by Marvin Gage, and "Symphonic Dance" by Rachmaninoff will represent jazz and modern.
A waltz from "Faust" by Goundon will show classical form, and a Polish dance to traditional music will illustrate European folk forms.
Members of Tau Sigma have done all the choreography for the show, Sherbon said. Virginia Epps, instructor of design, designed the costumes and lighting.
The third part of the program is designed to show dance as a concert art.
"Time Tick Tock", a number from Tau Sigma's concert last spring; "Bitter Sweet," a classical pas de deux; and "Run the Show," a modern dance, will close the program.
elaborate to be incorporated in the public school curriculum, she said.
Janet Margus, adviser of Concerts for Young People, Inc., said the program was for children from age six and up. The concert includes music to help them enjoy interest in music and concerts that are too
The third and last concert of the series will be an adaptation of Rossini's opera, "Cinderella," to be performed Feb. 23 in the Lawrence High School auditorium.
Tickets for the Tau Sigma concert will be on sale Monday at the door and are all at 10am.
New food stamp rules test student eligibility
Food stamps may be harder for students to get as a result of a policy recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The new policy will require that students verify they aren't receiving more than half of their income from households ineligible for food stamps, John Derrick, director of the Douglas County Welfare Office, said this week.
Now, students need only show they aren't receiving substantial support from their teachers.
The present 30-day period between submission of an application for food stamps and the granting or denial of the application probably be almost 60 days, Derrick said.
It takes a long time to fill a request, he said, and it's going to get longer.
shortage in the welfare office. The normal staff of seven is soon to be temporarily reduced to five, Derrick said. Also, since December 11, all requests for new personnel or replacements need state approval, he said.
Adding to the problem is a personnel
No official memo has been sent to Derrick's office implementing the change in issuing of food stamps. But at the regional county welfare directors' meeting this week in Topeka, many directors were discussing the implications of the change, he said.
"It appears impossible to determine what is 50 per cent of a person's income," Derrick said. "If your parents go out and buy you a suit of clothes as a gift, that is included?"
Derrick said he planned to continue issuing food stamps according to the policies of the Department of Agriculture's last memo.
"I have no jurisdiction to change until I receive a written memo," he said.
Salary discrimination discussed by AAUP
Statistics indicating a discrepancy between men's and women's salaries at the University of Kansas were the major topic at a meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Thursday night.
The statistics, gathered by the Office of Business Affairs, were published in the monthly newsletter of the AAUP. The figures state that the difference in average GPA among female professors, which was $2.993 during the 1970-71 school year, is now $2.550.
Female associate professors, who were paid an average of $1,734 less than male associate professors in 1970-71, are being taught less this year, according to the statistics.
In the case of assistant professors, the figures indicate the discrepancy has grown in the last five years. The average female assistant professor's salary was $811 lower than average male assistant professor's salary in 1970-71. The difference for 1974-75 is $1,070.
One member of the AAUP said that such statistics didn't necessarily indicate actual salary discrimination. The statistics could be taken to mean that there was simply a higher concentration of women in areas that successfully lower salaries, such as美术学院, than in areas that have larger salaries, such as engineering, the member said.
"It doesn't look so good for the AUP to be taking the position that there are salary inequities on the basis of the kind of information here," the member said.
Frances Ingemann, president of AAUP,
resisted such suggestions.
He said other factors, such as the possibility of women not publishing as much material as men, should be taken into consideration.
"I think we know cases where there are women who publish as much or more than men in their department, but who are paid less," she said. "One of the reasons, among others, is that those departments are so poorly paid is the fact that they have women in them."
Jacob Gordon, associate professor of African studies, said that no matter what he was teaching, he thought the University administration had been invaded by the Office of Minority Affairs and the Office of Affirmative Action that there was discrimination against women in the college.
Another member suggested that cases of known discrimination be dealt with on an individual basis by the AUAP, but Carl Meyer, professor of East Asian studies, disagreed.
"If, as we suspect, there are a number of
*if*, in inequities, then dealing with only a
number of cases."
The AAUP took no definite action in relation to the statistics, but Ingmann said she supported the idea of having a chapter meeting devoted solely to the topic of possible sex discrimination in faculty salaries.
Ingemann said that the Executive Committee of the AAUP had been studying a bill making some changes in the State Employer-Employ Relations Act.
"The final draft that they came out with in November will now go before one of the judges."
Fund shifts affect research
Bv.JOHN.JOHNSTON
BY JOHN JOHNSTON
Kansan Staff Reporter
The federal government, which provides 90 per cent of the funds for research here, has moved toward more highly directed and targeted research projects, Angerser said this week.
Funding for Faculty research at the University of Kansas is fairly stable now, but definite shifts in government philosophy are affecting the administration of grants, according to William Arngersinger, vice president for research and graduate studies.
Instead of accepting as many faculty project proposals as in the past, government agencies that supply funds are placing emphasis on applied sciences and specific areas such as cancer and energy research, Arquesterian said.
Snyder agreed that there had been a shift from basic to applied research and said that another major change was the reduction in the number of training grants.
A major drawback to directed research projects is the faculty's position against being told what to research, Henry Snyder, dean of research administration, said. Most faculty members have their own special roles and to propose their own projects, he said.
For many years, the University has received a large number of these grants for research.
Although research grants for the department have been because of the government's emphasis on biomedical research, Parekaty said there had been a severe crunch on money for them.
He said that as a result of the cutbacks in funding for equipment, his department operated like a Model T when compared to the Mercedes-Benz available to an institution such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David Paretsky, chairman of the department of microbiology, said cutbacks in training grants by the National Institute of Health had been very serious. These grants are important for supporting graduate students, he said.
"The only reason these programs haven't been phased out completely in the last two years is because Congress dug in their heels and fought for them," he said.
ministrations of presidents Richard M.
Minton and Robert S. McNamara has been
opposed to these programs. Sydneyuser
The number of these grants available in the school of Social Welfare has been severely decreased, according to Edith Black. assistant to the dean of the school.
Black said the school faculty did little research because of their teaching load, but he believed that the school would benefit.
The lack of funding for training grants also is affecting the social sciences.
The amount of money available for the various types of grants the University receives fluctuates from year to year for a number of reasons, Snyder said. Most of the fluctuations result from the complexities of the government bureaucracy, be said.
portant to graduate students who relied on the funds to help them through school.
Snyder said Nixon had impounded many of the funds appropriated by Congress for his release. When he released, there was such a flood of money available that the system of distribution would be unstable.
Ford has called for revisions of the budget. Therefore, many government agencies that distribute research grants are preparing the future and are holding back. Snyder says.
Another factor affecting funding is the current move by the government to give more money to private industry for research. For example, the federal dilute funds available for faculty research.
The funding of research by external agencies at the University for fiscal year 1974 was $14,400,000 for 25% awards. The remaining funds were for projects, and 1972's total was $13,350,000.
Snyder said fluctuations of this size were normal, and could be caused by large ingestion.
Besides funding from external agencies.
he said research was funded in a number of ways: organized research, such as the Geological Survey; unbudgeted, ongoing research that is basically funded by faculty salaries; and separate funding from the University's budget.
Sources of funding are widespread and come from a variety of sources. Arger-singer even mentioned the possibility of receiving funds from Arab oil companies;
"Some of the Middle East areas and oil producing companies, as everyone knows, are pretty well-heated these days," he said. His company is one of the nation's money and one of these is education."
are monitoring its progress very carefully,' she said.
Arsinger said preliminary inquiries had been made in this area, but that the University was merely checking out its options and nothing had been decided yet.
Snyder said any funding from companies such as these was thoroughly analyzed to make sure the educational mission of the institution hadn't to be sacrificed to receive the aid.
The amendments, she said, included a provision that would allow state employees who had organized a collective bargaining unit to meet with state agencies, excluding similar groups of state employees who hadn't organized.
Any funding from such groups would either be in the form of a gift to the University or as money designated for a specific research project. Svad said.
On the university level, she said, this could lead to meetings between the Board of Regents and the bargaining agent of Kansas State University. The board voted last year to organize, excluding such state universities as KU and Kansas State University, whose faculty haven't
The Executive Committee has received two nominations for vice president and president of the university. Ingemann met with the Senior Sefelow, professor of the current vice president, was elected to succeed Ingemann last year, but has since received permission to go on leave.
The University has often received grants of this type, including funds from Germany to establish a professorship and from the university group to buy books for the library, he said.
George Griffin, a Kansas College Librarian, and Edward Ruhe, professor of English, have been nominated, Ingemann said.
"It's my intention to send out, with the
ballot, a brief resume of the person's past activities in the AAUP," she said.
The policy of referring to summer research stipends granted to faculty members as salary has caused several faculty members to draw the attention of the Internal Revenue Service, Ingemann reported.
When several faculty members had been granted summer research stipends, they joined a group of such stipends would be much like scholarships that they were entitled to tax deductions on the stipends. However, the administration decided that they were taxed.
Ingemann said that the Executive Committee had decided to ask members of the administration to put money received in the same category in the same category with fellowships.
"At least two of our members have had their tax returns questioned," she said.
Ingemann also said that the Executive Board had been concerned about the participation of the President.
She said that attendance at the meeting was slightly below average. Twelve members attended.
Objective journalism idealistic, visitor says
By RAFAEL SAN105
Kansan Staff Reporter
The idea of the completely objective journalist is an unattainable ideal, according to Javier Soler-Herrera, director of the Journalism at the University of Costa Rica.
Solis, a participant in the International Visitor Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, said here Thursday that regardless of alleged objectiveness, every journalist expressed a point of view through his own style.
The objective journalist doesn't exist.",
he said. "The journalist is a single eye and not the eye of everyone. The fact that they journalist(s) say the truth is something else."
Solis said that after visiting Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev at the invitation of a press agency, he came to the United States to contact mass communication specialists who might be interested in teaching or researching in Costa Rica.
The greatest problem of the Costa Rican journalist, Solis said, is the lack of adequate educational opportunities and proper background to support his news stories.
"One of the purposes of our school of journalism is to bring out a new generation of journalists better educated than the one before," he said.
Solis, who is also the director of the independent weekly newspaper Pueblo, said the journalist would have accomplished his job. "I'm a big fan of the opinion and reaction through his daily work."
"The journalist is a creator of opinion," Solis said.
He said the mass media always have had an educational and ideological function.
Before anything else, Solis said, the journalism student should be given the appropriate instruments to acquire social, economic and political criteria.
"About 40 per cent of our journalism curriculum is devoted to giving the student scientific criteria so that he can get closer to Costa Rican environment," he said.
Solis said he would rather see a graduate with a critical and inquiring personality than a student who was an expert in writing use cards. Providing the student with a journalistic education isn't as important as building his curiosity and judgment.
Foolish Follies
Br Staff Photographer GEORGE MILLENER III
James Ralston, associate professor of choral music, directs a skirt from this year's production of "Faculty Follies," which will be shown at 3:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Ralston is president of PI Kappa Lambda, the honorary music society that is sponsoring the Follies.