Wednesday, August 20, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Barbara Cochran/KANSAN
Pay Day
Students waited in lines to collect financial aid and to pay fees for the fall semester yesterday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Despite his protest, Budig gets raise
By Nicole SauzeK
Staff writer
Despite his own objection, Chancellor Gene A. Budig became the first university president in Kansas to be paid more than $100,000 on July 1, after the Board of Regents approved a 5.2 percent increase in his salary.
Budig had been making $96,000 a year. In a letter, he requested that the Regents limit his raise to 2.5 percent, the same percentage raise given to faculty members. The board refused Budig's request. A smaller pay raise would have increased Budig's salary only to $98,400.
Budig later announced that the difference — $2,252 — would be donated to the Kansas University Endowment Association for scholarships.
In other campus news this summer:
■ Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, announced 17 July 15 his
decision to resign from his administrative post at the University of Kansas to return to teaching.
Cobb will take a leave of absence during the 1987 spring semester and will return in the fall to teach full time in the English department.
Cobb, who has been executive vice chancellor for six years, will leave his position at the end of the fall semester.
A search committee will be formed after Budig reviews the functions of the vice chancellor's office.
KU Police still are looking into the July 4 vandalism of the Vietnam Memorial. Someone defaced the memorial by using a black marker to write a slogan on the stone monument. The message was, "While waging a genocidal war for U.S. imperialists."
Workers from the department of facilities operations were able to remove the writing. KU police said
the case was still open but no arrests had been made.
The memorial, between West Campus Road and Memorial Drive near the Chi Omega Fountain, was dedicated May 25.
University officials reinstated the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in mid-May and ended the group's suspension a year early.
The house was suspended for two years June 19, 1985, for violation of University regulations. Charges were based on an alleged hazing incident that occurred in April 1985.
Violation details were kept confidential by University officials because they dealt with disciplinary problems.
Under the suspension, the house was not allowed to participate in any University or Interfraternity Council's formal rush activities and was omitted from University publications.
The Acacia fraternity, 1100 Indiana St., no longer has a local chapter on campus after 82 years.
The Acacia initiates decided this summer to dissolve the chapter when membership declined. Only 11 active members would have returned this fall, not enough to fill the 45-person capacity house.
- Several other administrative changes were made on campus in the past academic year.
Peter G. Thompson, KU art professor and former associate dean of fine arts, became the new fine arts dean July 1. He replaced James Moeser, who resigned in February 1965. Moeser became dean and executive director of University Arts Service at Penn State in University Park, Pa., in July.
Also on July 1, Edward Meyen took over the position of education dean.
Mall project boosted by Dillard's interest blight study decision
By Karen Samelson Staff writer
While many KU students were vacationing elsewhere, local officials and business owners were keeping busy here.
"it's been a really productive summer," City Commissioner David Longhurst said yesterday.
The city received good news this month when Dillard's announced that the department store company was interested in taking part in the proposed downtown mall.
"That demonstrates that the market is here," said Hannes Zacharias, the city's management analyst. "We're really excited about it."
Zacharias said two other stores had expressed interest in the mall project, but the city did not release the companies' names.
The developer, Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, of Cleveland, will present a revised plan to the commission in September, he said. By that time, three large department stores — the number needed to anchor the mall — should have committed to the project.
The proposed mall got another boost earlier in the summer when the commission accepted a blight study of the downtown "footprint," confirming that the 600 block of downtown Lawrence fits the legal definition of a blighted area.
Because of the study results, the city now may use its powers to purchase the land for the proposed mall.
In Douglas County administrative action, commissioners are considering hiring another staff member. Commissioners will discuss at their 9:30 a.m. meeting today a proposal to create the position of a full-time county administrator. The work now is done by a county counselor-administrator, but County Commissioner Nancy Hiebert said the county should have both a full-time administrator and a part-time counselor.
"We need someone who's there on a day-to-day administrative basis," Hiebert said. She said the commissioners would not give up any policy-making powers.
Meanwhile, food shoppers returning to town will have a new place to do business. Last week, Dillon's opened a superstore that offers potato and salad bars, a fresh seafood department, a pharmacy, post office and banking machines.
Customers also can rent videos and drop off their utility bill payments. The new store at Sixth Street and
Lawrence Avenue replaces the store at Sixth and Michigan streets, where there wasn't enough room to expand.
The summer also brought some bad news for a few local apartment dwellers. Jayhawk West Apartments filed for bankruptcy in June, listing 123 tenants as creditors, according to Clyde Chapman, director of the Consumer Affairs Association, 819 Vermont St.
To try to recover their security deposits, which range from 99 cents to about $200, tenants will have to make claims to the federal bankruptcy court in Los Angeles, where the bankruptcy action was filed, he said.
The apartment complex is operating under new management now, but Chapman said he didn't know whether the creditors would get any, part or all of their deposit money back.
The district attorney's office also kept busy this summer, Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said.
On May 31, Russell Gensler, 1408 W. Third St., was fatally shot in a parking lot in Centennial Park. A few days later, police arrested two Lawrence men, Curtis White, 1306 Tennessee St., and Sherman Tolbert, 810 Lawrence Ave., and charged them with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting. The men will be up for trial this fall. Flory said.
In June, a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Nov. 22 death of George Hixon, KU professor of design. The man, Eugene Avis Jr., was sentenced in July to 12 years to life in prison.
On June 30, a 12-year-old Lawrence boy died of a gunshot wound that he suffered when a rifle accidentally discharged. The boy, Jay Clark, son of Barkley Clark, former KU law professor and Lawrence mayor, was playing with two friends when the rifle discharged. The shooting was declared accidental and no charges were filed, Flory said.
In July, the last guilty plea was made in the death of Leslie Frank Barnes, whose body was found March 19 in the Kansas River.
Gary Thomas, 1405 Westbrook,
pleased guilty to voluntary
manslaughter and later was sentenced
to three to 10 years in prison. In
June, Terri Barnes, the victim's
wife, and Lewis Brochman, a friend
of the victim, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Barnes and Brochman also were sentenced to three to 10 years.
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