University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, August 26, 1986
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News Briefs
State Rep. Runnels to speak at meeting
State Rep. Judy Runnels,
Democratic nominee for Kansas
secretary of state, will speak at
the KU Democrapes meeting at 8 p.m.
today in Alderson Auditorium
of the Kansas Union.
Runnels, a native of Lawrence and a KU graduate, will be joined by Bob Miller, Democratic candidate for the 43rd legislative district seat, and Lyric Bartz, Johnson County legislative candidate.
Runnels served as a lobbyist for the Kansas State Nurses Association and for Gov. John Carlin. She now is serving her second term in the Kansas House and represents part of Topeka.
Walk to fight hunger
The Lawrence chapter of the Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Service will sponsor a 10 kilometer walk Sunday to raise money to combat local and world hunger.
The chapter wants to raise $10,000. Seventy-five percent of the money will go toward fighting world hunger and 25 percent will go to the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen and the Emergency Service Council. The groups assist low-income Lawrence residents.
A meeting for anyone interested in participating will be at 7 p.m. today at the Baptist Campus Center, 1629 W. 19th St. For more information, call Rick Clock at 841-8001.
Senate to alter rules
A temporary Student Senate committee will meet at 5:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Burge Union cafeteria to revise election rules.
In the spring, the Senate changed the date of its elections from November to April. Because elections will take place twice this academic year, in November and in April, officers elected this fall will serve shortened terms.
Stephanie Quincy, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, said the committee would make language changes in the Senate rules and regulations and the University Code, which govern Senate activities.
Audit grant received
The committee consists of StudEx members.
Three KU business professors have been awarded $36,650 to dc research in auditing.
Professor Glenn Shafer,
Associate Professor Prakash
Shenoy and Assistant Professor
Rajendra Srivastava were awarded
the grant by the Peat Marwick
Foundation for their proposal titled,
"An Interactive Tool for
Managing Uncertainty in Expert
Systems for Auditing."
Shafer, Shenoy and Srivastava were three of 18 chosen from 83 candidates nationwide.
Grants totaling $4 million are expected to be awarded in 1966 to business or accounting faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, according to F. David Fowler, secretary of the foundation
The Peat Marwick Foundation was established in 1968 to support academic excellence in accounting.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance for showers and a high temperature of 85 to 90 degrees. Southerly winds will blow at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance for showers and a low temperature of 60 to 65 degrees.
From staff and wire reports.
Barbara Cochran/KANSAN
ing Opening Convocation at Hoch Auditorium. Roskam was named the recipient of the Irvin Youngbear Award for research achievement.
an Roskam, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, receives congratulations from Chancellor Gene A. Biduq i
Record-breaking $36 million received
Budig says grant money increased
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
At the 121st annual Opening Convocation yesterday, Chancellor Gene A. Budig expressed pride in KU's ability to receive a record amount of grants despite inadequate financing from the Kansas Legislature.
Budig announced that the University of Kansas received a record-breaking total of $36 million in grants for its projects, which is an increase over the previous year's total.
The Lawrence campus received about $24 million and the University of Kansas Medical Center received about $12 million.
About 2,000 people attended the
speech in Hoch Auditorium.
Members of KU police were outside the auditorium to help with any possible emergencies or security problems, but no problems arose.
Budig also said the KU faculty and staff submitted a record-high number of proposals for grants.
"Two things must be noted about these record-breaking figures," said Budig.
"First, they are a very real tribute to our faculty and staff — to the ideas and imaginations of those who write proposals, a tribute to the hard work of sitting down and writing grant proposals at nights and on weekends. That we do all this without an adequate resource base cannot be ignored."
Secondly, Budig said KU was an important factor in the state economy.
The $36 million in grants can be multiplied by three, making it $108 million, when estimating its total effect on the Kansas economy, he said.
Budig will attempt to increase the University's positive effect by continuing to challenge state legislators to allocate more money to KU, he said.
"Without adequate faculty compensation and basic state support we cannot maintain this kind of contribution," he said. "With adequate support we could do much, much more."
Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, later explained what Budig was referring to.
"When you bring a dollar into the state, it passes hands several times, thereby stimulating the economy," she said. "Therefore, the overall effect of each dollar can be multiplied by three."
Budig also offered some words of encouragement to new students.
"The opportunity is there," he said. "You must seize it. We hope you will and encourage you to do so. You will be challenged and enriched by it if you do."
State lack of funds is KU crisis
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
Both Budig and Dubnick said the financial health of the University was vital to the financial health of the state.
The University of Kansas is facing a severe financial crisis because of the lack of state funds, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Melvin Dubnick, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday at Opening Convocation.
"A weak economy calls for investment and not cutbacks," Dubnick said.
The state Legislature gave KU's Lawrence campus $176.3 million last year.
But the amount was not enough to cover one of KU's vital needs — a significant increase in faculty salaries. Budig said in a letter to the University in the spring.
After the speech, Dubnick explained some of the University's financing problems.
The Legislature approved a 2.5 percent increase in salaries to be awarded on a merit basis and a 1 percent increase in the state's contribution to retirement funds.
The increases were unsatisfactory to the majority of the faculty, Dubnick said. KU is facing the danger of valuable faculty leaving for more lucrative employment, he said.
"I know of other people who have been offered more at other places, but who are wading through for another year or two to see what KU will do for them."
Each in-state student pays only 25 percent of the total cost of his education, and the University picks up the rest of the tab, he said.
When enrollment increases, the University must pay for the extra students without additional subsidies from the state, Dubnick said.
Course guide to be out soon
Dubnick said the University already was almost $500,000 short because of an unexpected increase in freshman enrollment.
Staff writer
"We usually have some flexibility in the fall and then run low on funds in the spring, but this year we're already low on funds," he said.
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Freshmen and sophomores will have more help in finding their way through a maze of class choices when spring semester pre-enrollment begins, a student senator said yesterday.
Jayhawk Course Source, a course outline recently created by the Student Senate, almost is completed and scheduled to be distributed this fall.
Beginning Oct. 27, 10,000 copies of the free course guide will be distributed to freshman and sophomores. Several University departments also will receive guides for all students to use.
Missy Kleinholz, Topeka junior and Panhellenic senator, spent the summer preparing the course guide. Course Source will include class descriptions and information on class organization and types of tests.
"I'm excited about Course Source," Kleinholz said. "I want it to become a normal part of KU life — something that freshmen and sophomores will automatically pick
up with their time tables and catalogs before enrollment."
Professors in each department supplied the guide's information. Kleinholz sent questionnaires to faculty asking how long they had been teaching the course, what their teaching approach was and what type of exams they gave.
'Course Source is the Student Senate's small attempt to help a big problem.'
David Epstein
David Epstein Student body president
Course Source possibly could cut down on the number of students who go through add-drop.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said 20,000 to 25,000 students went through add-drop every semester to change their schedules for a variety of reasons. Thompson said he thought Course Source might help reduce the high numbers.
"Response from the instructors was wonderful," Kleinholz said. "Not only would students know what the teacher is like — Course Source could help instructors get the kind of students they want in class."
"It's not going to solve the problem completely," he said, "but it does have the potential to reduce the number of students who go through add-drop. Whether it will or not, I can't say. I've never seen the guide."
A guide to professors and classes was a campaign promise of David E. Kernahan, co-founder
"Course Source is the Student Senate's small attempt to help a big problem." Epstein said.
The Student Senate allocated $13,500 from its unallocated fund for the project.
"We wanted to give the students more information than what is given in the Timetables and the campus catalog." Epstein said.
Higher candy prices leave students bitter
Inflation. If it's not tuition, it's books. And if it's not books, it's candy bars.
This was how Robyn Brown, Lawrence freshman and concession worker at the Wescoe Hall cafeteria, responded to the 5-cent increase recently placed on candy bars in campus vending machines.
Other students who purchased candy at Wescoe also expressed dismay because of the new 50-cent price of the beloved chocolate treats.
"How could they do this?" asked Norman McClendon, Lawrence sophomore. "Candy bars are a staple of student diets and shouldn't be raised."
By a Kansan reporter
James Todd, Overland Park graduate student, said, "I'm not sure the price increase in the machine correlates with the price increases of their suppliers."
Robert Derby, concessions manager for the Kansas Union.
Derby, who has been with the concessions department since last month, said he initiated a review this summer of the wholesale and retail costs of the candy products. After the review, the department decided to increase the price.
The price had to be raised so that the vending machines could remain stocked with a wide selection of name-brand products, he said.
"Students don't generally buy non-name products at lower prices," Derby said.
said the 9 percent increase didn't even match up with the 13 percent increase last year in the candy products' wholesale price.
The price after the increase still remained below the national average for college and university vending machines, he said.
KU students pay 50 percent more than the wholesale price while students nationwide pay an average of 53 percent more on vending machine candy.
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