University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. September 16, 1987
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'Super board over schools to be discussed
A state Board of Regents subcommittee will meet at 3 p.m. today in Topeka to discuss merging the administration of Kansas' 19 community colleges and seven Regents schools under one 'super unit' which will be held at the State Department of Education, 120 E. 10th St.
A student advisory committee, composed of the student body presidents of the Regents schools, will meet at 4 p.m. today at the Adams Alumni Center. They will discuss the state's open admissions policy and try to develop a student philosophy about the issue.
Both meetings are open to the public.
KU gets four stars from college guide
The New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges has given the University of Kansas a four-star rating for its academic programs, social activities and overall quality of life.
KU's rating, plus a 1,000 word description of the University, was written by New York Times education editor Edwin Fiskie. The guide will be available in bookstores in late October. Preliminary copies of the article were sent to KU officials last week.
A four-star rating indicates that a university is above average and has particularly distinguishing academic features and a serious academic atmosphere. Fiske said yesterday. A five-star rating is the best.
"More of the Midwest's best and brightest are turning down invitations to prominent eastern schools (yes, even Harvard) to attend this relatively inexpensive public institution in the middle of Kansas," the article said.
KU English, foreign language, chemistry, philosophy, journalism, architecture, urban design, allied health and engineering programs are noted as outstanding in the article.
Students offer plans to curb party violence
Black Student Union and Black Panhellenic officers met yesterday with KU police, Kansas Union and University Events Committee officials to try to reinstate their privilege to have parties at the Kansas Union.
The Union parties have been put on hold until a solution is found to the violence that has accompanied the parties. BSU and Black Panthericism presented their proposals during the two-hour meeting.
Jim Long, director of the Kansas and Burge Unions, said he would look at the proposals and the would meet again next week.
The proposals included moving the parties to the Burge Union or other University buildings, requiring a KUID to get into the parties and posting a sign explaining what behavior is not welcomed at the parties.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Pennie von Achen's name was misspeaked in Friday's Kansan. Von Achen is a biologist who is searching for the Northern Crawfish frog.
From staff and wire reports.
Salaries. state image hinder search for dean
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
Starting a search for a new dean and filling several faculty vacancies means the School of Social Welfare has started a period of change this year, Assistant Dean Edith Black said yesterday.
But some of those positions might be hard to fill because of the location and the salaries at the University of Kansas, she said.
The school had to turn away about 50 people who wanted to enroll as part-time students in Kansas City and Lawrence. Black said.
The faculty is short-staffed now, with three positions unfilled. That means the school has had to keep an eye on the number of students admitted and limit the number enrolled in some areas. Black said.
The school also is short-handed because several faculty members have started a phased retirement, which means they only work part time. Several professors also are on leave or sabbatical.
One professor, Ann Weick, isn't teaching because she is acting as dean while the search continues. The former dean, Patricia Ewalt, resigned in July to take a similar job at the University of Hawaii-Honolulu.
A search committee for the new dean, named by the academic affairs
office last week, will meet for the first time Monday, said Marylee Brochmann, associate professor of
the choice of faculty really means the future of the school.'
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Edith Black Assistant dean
social welfare and committee member.
to have a new dean selected by July.
Black said the dean and faculty appointments would effect the school for years to come.
"The choice of faculty really means the future of the school," she said. "Things will be different as who were here a long time leave."
Brochmann said the school hoped
The school is hiring part-time faculty and expanding a program that brings in professional social compensate for the teacher shortage.
The school hired three people for three positions last year, Black said, but two of those hired won't start until next fall.
She said that people had left the school for a variety of reasons but that better salaries at other schools often helped people decide to leave.
Black said that good faculty were available. But turing them to Kansas might be a problem not necessarily because of pay scales, she said, but because of misconceptions of what the state is like.
"That's a problem with our school and the University as a whole," she said.
Black said the school had been working with groups such as the Chamber of Commerce to try to show presence as a nice place to work and live.
Prof says KU needs a union
By NOEL GERDES
Carl Lande, KU professor of political science, said, "I think you are getting to the heart of the problem with distribution. People in higherpaid disciplines generally are convinced that unionization will come at their expense."
Staff writer
Galloway said Pittsburg State did not cut anyone's salary to give someone else a raise. They asked for increased salaries across the board, and then raised those salaries that were significantly lower than average.
Faculty salaries at the University of Kansas would be less if the faculty at Pittsburg State University hadn't formed a union, a Pittsburg State professor said yesterday.
Ed Galloway, the professor, spoke to about 10 people at a faculty forum in the Kansas Union on the union experience at Pittsburg State. Galloway is a past president and a past negotiator for the Pittsburg State chapter of the Kansas National Education Association. The forum was sponsored by the KU chapter of the NEA.
Galloway said after the speech that because Pittsburg State faculty were under contract for salaries during a state budget cut in 1982, the Regents cut salaries at other schools less than eight might have if the union had not existed.
"We also are a tangible encouragement to the Regents to be a little bolder with the Legislature when they make decisions regarding Regents budgets." Galloway said.
Pittsburg State faculty elected the PSU-NEA as their union representative in 1974. The Pittsburg State union is the only faculty union at a university in Kansas.
He said that despite the opposition, the faculty union had brought its faculty a fair grievance hearing system, an increase in morale, a salary distribution system and a salary distribution system, in addition to other benefits.
On Nov. 17 and 18, KU faculty will vote on whether they want a union represented by the KU chapter of NEA, the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, or no union at all.
Salary generation is the process of determining how much money to request from the Legislature for salaries. Salary distribution is how the money that the Legislature appropriates is divided among the faculty.
Galloway said the Pittsburg State administration and the Regents had been uncooperative with the faculty union.
Squeaky clean
Lyle Snook of Cardinal Janitorial Supplies and Services, Topeka,
squeegees the windows of the press box at Memorial Stadium. Snook was
cleaning the windows yesterday morning. The company does the job once a year, he said.
Senate committees pass financial bills
Staff writer
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
All five of this year's Student Senate standing committees met for the first time last night to elect officers and review legislation that will be discussed at tonight's Senate meeting.
the finance and cultural affairs committees passed a bill allocating $7,000 to help finance the 11th annual Jayhawk Jazz Festival. The committees also pass bills allocating $800 to raise KU Jazz Ensemble in financing "Fantasy to Stan Kenton," a concert planned for November.
The money would come from the Senate's unallocated account, which now stands at $223,057.87. The student fee comes from the Student Activity Fee.
Ron McCurdy, jazz coordinator for the department of music and dance which is in the School of Fine Arts, spoke in support of the bills.
When McCurdy asked members of the cultural affairs committee whether they had heard of Stan Kenton, no more than half of the members said they had. Stan Kenton was a leading jazz musician and band leader from Kansas who gained national prominence.
"I don't think we're going to have a problem packing the house," McCurdy said.
The finance committee also passed a bill allocating $5,800 to finance the KU Higher Education Rescue Operation (H.E.R.O.) campaign. The campaign is designed to increase state support for higher education.
Martie Aaron, campus director of Associated Students of Kansas, said the funding was crucial to KU's increased participation in the campaign.
"We'd lose the commitment of about 50 people who have been working on the H.E.R.O. committee," she
said. The money would be used for mailing and advertising, she said.
The finance committee also passed a bill allocating $589 to purchase a memory expansion kit for the computer in the treasurer's office.
Spencer Colvin, Senate treasurer and sponsor of the bill, said the computer's current memory couldn't handle all of this year's accounts.
The student rights committee passed a bill that would grant committee voting status to the administrative assistant of the Senate when acting as a member of the finance committee.
Hospital to follow new waste disposal policies
By a Kansan reporter
Officials at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., said that they hoped new precautions would keep hospital waste products out of the reach of children.
The boys are being tested for hepatitis.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recommended new waste disposal procedures to the hospital after two small boys, ages 6 and 7, were found playing with used syringes in a dumpster at the hospital on Sept. 6.
Bob Ohlens, hospital executive director, said that most of the changes would take place at the Jefferson-Douglas County Landfill, Route 3, but that there would be changes at the hospital, too.
"Our hazardous waste will be held in the building until the truck arrives," Ohlen said.
be covered immediately.
He said that the waste, which included trash from the yard, would go directly to the landfill where it would be disposed.
Ohlen said that the hospital, along with the city of Lawrence, decided on the new procedures Monday. The health department suggested the procedures last week after the incident.
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