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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
Date for union vote to be set
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
No action was taken over the summer on a proposed KU faculty union, but a date for a vote on the issue will be decided next week.
The Kansas Public Relations Board will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday on campus to select a date for the vote.
KU faculty can choose between three options on the ballot: no representation, representation by the Kansas National Educational Association and representation by the American Association of University Professors. A no-rerepresentation vote would mean KU faculty would not form a union.
Both associations will appear on the ballot because each has met the requirement of collecting the signatures of 30 percent of the faculty.
In other campus news this summer:
* A reduction in summer classes at the University of Kansas sent many students to other ways to spend their summer.
There were 9,055 summer school students — a reduction of 427 from last summer. The Lawrence campus was down 500 students, but the Kansas City campus had an increase of 73.
"It was not a surprise to any of us that the number of students was down," said Wes Williams, dean of educational services.
Williams said, 7,413 students attended classes on the Lawrence campus and, 1,642 on the Kansas City campus.
John Linder, whose brother Benjamin was killed by Nicaraguan conspirals in April, spoke at KU in June about the war in Nicaragua, his brother's death and the U.S. government's response to that death.
Linder was on a national tour to speak about the war between the Sandinista government and the contras. Several weeks after he left KU he made national headlines when he confronted Vice President George Bush at a public forum.
Benjamin Linder was a chemical engineer and U.S. citizen working in Nicaragua.
The Lawrence School Board elected as its president Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and associate dean of student life. Ballard, 42, is the first black woman elected to the one-year post.
Archie R. Dykes, chancellor of KU from 1973 to 1800, announced this month that he will accept the position of special assistant to Donald Kelley, chairman of E-11 Holdings Inc. in Chicago, beginning Jan. 1.
The Board of Regents gave Chancellor Gene A. Budig a 5 percent pay increase for the fiscal year beginning July 1 that will raise his annual income from $101,000 to $106,000.
Dykes will resign as chairman and chief executive officer of the Security Benefit Group of Companies, Kansas' largest life insurance company, which is based in Topeka.
The increase was the smallest percentage of any given to the seven heads of Regents institutions, but Budig's salary remains the highest. The KU power plant behind Stauffer-Flint Hall has begun burning natural gas instead of oil. This will eliminate the odor caused by sulfur dioxide emissions.
Low-grade fuel oil had been used at the plant because of KU budget cuts. Because of a cheaper rate on natural gas, the plant will burn natural gas.
Kansan reporter Amber Stenger contributed information to this story.
Train crossing to get safety signals
BY MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
The train crossing north of Lawrence where four KU students were killed in March will have active warning signals by June, a Union Pacific official said last week.
The site and the five others owned by Union Pacific in Douglas County will receive gates, bells, lights, a motion detector system and a backup system.
Cliff Shoemaker, director of public projects for Union Pacific, said the company was waiting for an agreement to the state before installing signals.
The crossing where the students were killed received stop signs in
June. It is on county road 1900N,
about one mile north of the Lawrence
city limits and 75 yards west of U.S.
Highway 24-59.
The four students killed were Daniel J. McDevitt, 19, Salina sophomore; Joel D. Grantham, 20, Overland Park sophomore; Jenifer L. Jones, 19, St. Louis freshman; and Elizabeth A. Dunlap, 21, Salina junior.
Each complete crossing system costs between $90,000 and $100,000. The federal government will pick up 90 percent of the cost and the county will pay the remaining 10 percent.
Shoemaker said Union Pacific had agreed to pay half of the county's 10 percent share.
The Lawrence office coordinator for the State Department of Transportation, Roy Mayhew, said that even after the state gave approval, it still would take time to install the system.
"When the agreement comes out, they (the railroads) have a year to have it done," Mayhew said. "It's not because it's a low priority for the railroads, but they have so many other things going on. It takes a wide range of employees to get the job done."
Shoemaker said the crossing had been scheduled for a routine inspection around the time of the accident. A study of the site began soon after the accident.
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