University Daily Kansan, November 29, 1982
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Overloaded computer causes night work
Rv.DAN PARELMAN
Staff Reporter
Early enrollment has overloaded one of the two KU computer systems, forcing some administrative employees to work nights and weekends.
But the office of information systems has identified the main problem and is working to correct it, Rich Bireta, the assistant director of the office, said.
bereta said the IBM computer, which controls the computer terminals used for administrative purposes, licked the keyboard in a way that early enrollment terminals added to it.
CONSEQUENTLY, terminals responded slowly to employees' commands, causing them to get less work done.
Next month, Bireta said, his office
will add memory to the IBM computer that controls the administrative terminals. he hoped he would help spring enrollment go more smoothly.
Early fall enrollment ended last week.
The early dropout period begins
"Response time was so slow during the day, it was hard to get anything done," said Nancy Keighingham, the assistant director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' word processing center.
Patsy Elliot, assistant director of records for the office of educational services, said that because fewer terminals would be used during the dropout period and because less students expected to respond response time should be faster this week than it was during early enrollment.
Kreighbaum said that during early
enrollment, she and two other employees in her office split up four night shifts.
"The response time was so slow during the day, you might as well have not been there," she said.
However, she said, the system overload caused a lot of anxiety.
KEIGHBAUM SAID by working nights and working from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., when the office was open but they had no desk, they got caught up with their work.
Employees of Liberal Arts and Sciences departments that use the center's word processing system worked nights and weekends. Kreighbaum said that people in the sociology department worked weekends, and others in the physics department worked nights.
Dick Winternote, executive director
of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said employees in the Alumni Association's records department worked during their regular lunch breaks when students were not enrolled in lunches or break when commuter time was up.
Early enrollment put the Alumni Association a little behind on correcting alumn records, but there is always a record updating to be done by UPVA.
LINDY EARIN, assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that early enrollment put a pressure on the program's budget preparations for the College.
He said he was planning on working at the Academic Computer Center during the three days the University would be closed. Dec. 27 to 30, so he could finish his salary calculations for professors.
Legislators sav budget crisis may force decisions
Fears of an empty state treasury may produce one of the most productive legislative sessions in recent years. Three state legislators said yesterday.
The budgetary crisis, which many observers call the result of a prolonged national recession, has forced legislators to increase studies in preparation for improving the state's revenue sources.
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
To avoid a long-term budgetary crunch, the Legislature will have to choose one of two options when it meets with the laid State Rep. Mike Hayden. R-Atwood
"I think the immediacy of the situation will force us to be more productive in this session than in past meetings," he expected to be elected House Speaker.
"There are two ways we can approach this. One side of the alternative is no new taxes, which will mean substantial cuts in several programs. The other side is to increase taxes, or reduce them, with gasoline or tobacco," he said.
IN THE PAST, Hayden has said he would support a tax package that
included a severance tax on the production of oil and natural gas.
One local legislator said the continual draining of revenue might force the Legislature to enact several tax measures, including a new $20 million wait through lengthy debates as usual.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said several ailing programs, especially in the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, should give legislators more incentive for their conservation of revenue-raising proposals.
Accelerating withholding tax payments made by employers is one option Branson thinks will pass early in the session. Payments now are made on a quarterly basis, but a majority of employers are monthly payments, Branson said.
"ONCE THE payments were on a monthly basis, it would bring in a great deal of revenue at a faster rate," she said. "During this year's first quarter, $60 7 million was raised, but it came in only about $15 million we would pull in about $30 million."
"Several other states are already doing this, and I don't anticipate any problems when we consider it."
Branson said other options awaiting legislative action included a severance tax, on which Gov. John Carlin is expected to center his recovery program, and increases in the sales and incomes taxes.
SRS's severe budget squeeze may persuade legislators to step up consideration of the severance tax, which may seal the controversial tax's passage after two years of failure, Branson said.
"I think the great needs of the poor, with the lack of food and the need for warmth, may put more pressure on the Legislature to pass a severance tax," she said.
STATE SEN. August Bogina Jr., R-Leneca, also said an attempt to speed up withholding tax payments would pass early in the session. But he said he will prevail in intense legislative scrutiny, destroying chances of a quick passage.
member of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. "This requires a lot of study and research before we do anything. No one likes to pass taxes, but the fact of the matter is that we have to."
He said major tax bills would not be decided on before late February or early March.
"People are cautious about increasing taxes," said Bogina, who is a
Another quick way to shore up the budget, Bogina said, is for the Legislature to review appropriations made in the last session. He said such scrutiny could save SRS a substantial amount of money.
"We will probably resort to reappropriate work early. We are probably going to look at other agencies, such as Parks and Recreation and the Historical Society," he said. "These programs are desirable and necessary, but they are not as critical for life-sustaining like SRS."
Alan Blinder, Princeton professor of economics, will give his assessment of current national economic policies and predictions on the economy. He is benedict. He will address the 12:30 luncheon in the Union Ballroom.
of the KU Institute for Economic and Business Research, said Blinder was a middle-of-the road Keynesian economist. John Keynes, a British economist who led the government's fiscal policies that would increase employment.
Conference registration will start at 9 a.m. in the fifth-level lobby of the Union, Chancellor Gene A. Budig, at the opening session at 9:45 a.m.
Redwood will speak at 10 a.m. on Kansas economic developments. His speech will focus on problems inhibiting further growth and on potential policy measures that could encourage further expansion.
Redwood said that although he did not know what either speaker would say, an effort had been made to invite speakers with differing views.
One of President Reagan's economic officials and a Princeton University economics professor will give their views on the economic situation Dec. 10 at the annual Kansas Economic Outlook Conference in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
KU to host conference on future of economy
ANTHONY REDWOOD, director
Manuel Johnson, assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy, will speak at 11 a.m. on the administration's projections for 1983 and will preview national economic plans.
The event will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom, and will feature Voice di Camera, a madrigal singing group from Lawrence, and the Plymouth Congregational Church bellringers in a program of feasting, singing and ringing in Christmas, said Irene Carr; SUA program advisor.
Student Union Activities will celebrate the holiday season with its annual Madrigal Dinner on Thursday, SUA officials said recently.
Carpenters Hall in London still is the site of regular meetings of the Madrigal Society, founded there in 1741.
Madrigal singing combines several
independent voice parts so that each is its own song and yet all the parts combine for a pleasant sound. It originated in Italy and was brought to England during the 1500s, where it became a popular Christmas tradition.
SUA schedules Madrigal Dinner show
Carr said the dinner also would feature another Christmas tradition, the wassail bowl and flaming plum pudding.
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