The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 28 USPS 650-640
Board OKs bus pass price cut
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
The price of KU on Wheels' bus passes will drop $5 next semester if the Student Senate approves a revised bus system budget passed by the Senate Transportation Board last night.
Bus pass prices, which were raised to $35 in August with no Senate or University approval, will be lowered to $30 pending a Senate vote next Weekday.
The transportation board also proposed that individual be cut from 40 cents to 35 cents.
THE PROPOSED price cut came in the wake of the Sept. 15 arrest of Steve McMurry, Lawrence special student, on five felony counts of stealing bus system funds. McMurry, who was coordinator of the system from 1974 until his arrest is free on $6,000 bond.
McMurry, who was also a student senator at the time of his arrest, allegedly took $20,425 from bus system funds since January 1981. A preliminary hearing of the charges has been set.
Mc Murry has declined to comment on the charges since his arrest.
DAVID ADKINS, student body president, told transportation board members last night that the price cut was based on new budget changes. Frederick, Senate administrative assistant.
In the revised budget passed last night, Frederick estimated that bus pass sales and other fares would generate more than $265,000 in revenue for the bus system. But in the meantime, Mr. Murry had estimated that the system would bring in only $196,000.
Frederick said his revised budget predictions were based on the number of bus passes sold this semester. The Senate office has sold 4,690 bus passes so far this fall. In the unapproved budget, McKurry estimated that 5,600 bus passes would be taken during the year, or about 2,900 each semester.
ADKINS SAID last night that he could not explain the discrepancies between the two budgets. He also said that he had no idea why the budget was "conservative" budget with criminal intent.
Mc Murray could have erred in his budget proposals, Adkins said, or he might just have been extremely conservative in determining the bus system budget.
"I don't know where he came up with his numbers," Adkins said. "It's a mystery to me."
IN THE transportation budget McMurry submitted in July, no estimates were provided on the amount of non-student loans that she assessed for the sale of replacement bus passes either for the sale of replacement bus passes either
In the revised budget, Frederick estimated that this year's non-student and replacement students will
DUANE OGLE, owner of the Lawrence Bus Co., told committee members last night that McMurray never "could give him a straight answer" on how many bus passes had been sold.
"I had no idea on the exact and amount of money he would need to spend, but he still needed to receive figures on the bill."
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Sizeler Realty designated developer
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night designated Sizer Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La, as "developer of record" for the proposed downtown redevelopment project.
The 4-1 commission vote came after a
lengthy discussion. Commissioner Barkley
Clark said he thought Sizeeler would do a good job but said he would have preferred Link Programs Inc, Chicago.
"I THINK both of these developers are essentially working within the same general environment."
Commissioner Don Bins argued for Two Crowns Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, but he was the only commissioner to strongly support them.
Bims said of the outcome: 'I'm not happy with it, but I'm satisfied I did the best I could.'
The motion adopted by the commission names Link as the commission's second chairman.
The motion also indicated that a memorandum of agreement between Sizeler and the
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city should be signed within 30 days, and no later than 45 days.
DEAN PALOS, a planner in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department, said that according to the proposed agreement, the developer and the city should work out a basic project design, an initial financing plan for the project, required public improvements, some indication of how sites would be developed and a general timetable for the project.
If such a memorandum of agreement cannot be worked out, the city can try to work out such an agreement with the second-ranked developer. Link.
Besides the other proposed items, Sizeer may wish to add things to the agreement.
THE MANNER in which the commission discussed and considered each development will show the firms that the decision was based on a thorough analysis and review and
"In their working for it, they discussed as a group their concerns about each developer, and I think that's a good message for the developer," he said.
not on which developer was most popular, Palos said.
Pales said the selection was another in the many phases involved in the downtown area.
AFTER THE memorandum of agreement, which is expected to be in effect for 90 days after it is reached, the developer and the city will enter into a redevelopment agreement, according to a redevelopment prospectus the city prepared earlier this year.
"We have gone through phases, and each has been expedited well. That's just another step behind us now," he said.
The commission's selection of Sizerel indicated a seeming shift of opinion from last week.
That agreement will deal with the implementation of the project, according to the
The commission and the Downtown Improvement Committee interviewed the final three firms last week. Those firms had been chosen by the improvement committee from a field of eight firms that had responded to the redevelopment prospectus. Originally, the prospectus had been mailed to about 150 firms.
THE IMPROVEMENT committee interviewed the eight firms earlier this year and ranked Link first, Sizerer second and Two Crowns third.
Binns said he favored Two Crowns and tried to convince the other commissioners that he was right.
Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioners Nancy Shontz and Tom Gleason all said they had not made up their minds last week.
After last week's interviews with the firms, Clark said he favored Link. On Sept. 22, however, he said his choice was about even between Link and Sizeler.
Clark argued strongly for Link Programs last night, but the feeling of the commission was clear after Gleason said he had "the most tenuous of preferences for Sizer."
SHONTZ AGREED with him, and then
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Teri Cato, Overland Park senior, was oblivious to the view as she studied in the shadow of the Campanile yesterday afternoon.
The Lawrence City Commission last night named Sizerel Realty Co., Inc., Kenner, La., as developer of record for the proposed downtown redevelopment project. Above is some of the ideas that the proposed project. The picture was taken from the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets, looking north. City Commissioner Don Binsn, right, tried in vain to convince the other commissioners to name Two Crownes Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, as developer of record. Representative, Dan Krause, from a recently founded soon to discuss a memorandum of agreement, said Dean Palos, a planner in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department.
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Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and windy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph. The high will be around 80.
Tenight will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. The low will be
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high around 80.
Reagan says policies rescued nation from Democrats' economic 'disaster'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan said yesterday that his economic programs had "pulled America back from the brink of disaster," and he said the plans would rule in Washington for the lingering recession.
"We still have a long way to go" to complete economic recovery, Reagan said — acknowledging that the unemployment rate may reach 10 percent in a report due Oct. 8. But "we are going around the curve or the corner . . . progressing on our way out of here."
"We are better off today than we were," he said.
THE PRESIDENT, in his first formal news conference in two months, was asked many questions on the economy and the Middle East.
Reagan rejected a suggestion that the United States must share responsibility for the massacre of Palestinians in Bethlehem "it did not matter" because he was assigned to the early withdrawal of American troops.
Regan would be pinned down on when the new force of 1,200 U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon today will be withdrawn, although he said "the sooner, the better".
"WHEN THE Lebanese government says they have the situation well in hand, then we'll get out," he said.
He said the commitment would not lead to America being drawn into a new Vietnam.
"I don't see any confrontation of that type taking place at all," he said.
Reagan also denied that his administration was trying "to undermine or overthrow" the government of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and plunged continued American support for "the preservation" of the Jewish state.
In the statement and in response to questions, the president again defended his programs, which will be tested this fall in congressional elections, by saying that he inherited an "economic mess" from "those who were running the store," — the Democrats who controlled Congress during much of the last 50 years.
REAGAN SAID Republicans had nothing to fear if the voters "cut through all the demagoguery" and realized the progress he had read to cut inflation and interest rates.
"We pulled America back from the brink of disaster," he said.
He said economists saw "a solid recovery by the year 1983."
However, a poll released yesterday indicated that trouble might be in the offing. An ABC News-Washington Post survey indicated that 50 newspapers disapproved of Reagan's handling of the presidency.
Most of those polled did not like Reagan's economic policies. Fifty-five percent did not like the state of the economy and many did not favor the president's Mideast policy.
President Reagan
Report says faculty salaries lagging behind
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
Faculty salaries at KU's main campus last year continued to lag behind faculty salaries at many comparable institutions, according to a report of the American Association of University Professors.
Faculty salaries at 60 percent of the universities in KU's category had higher average faculty salaries during the 1981-82 academic year, according to the report.
year, according to the IEP report.
THE REPORT was released in the July-
August edition of Academe, a bulletin of the
AUP.
The report lists and compares salary and benefit levels at universities and colleges in the
Some KU officials and faculty members say that though they wish otherwise, the findings of this study are quite encouraging.
the report. Cobb told me,
"I'd like to be someplace beside the bottom quartile." Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
for, said yesterday.
He said the results of the study followed a pattern in recent years, when KU faculty salaries neither gained nor lost ground in
comparison with salaries at many peer institutions.
The University has not received large enough faculty salary appropriations in recent years to close the gap, he said.
RICHARD COLE, president of the KU chapter of the AAPD, said he expected little change in the teaching of this subject.
The report said the average compensation, which includes salaries and fringe benefits, for KU faculty members was in the bottom 40 percent of their compensation at the universities in KU's category.
"It's not by any means a picture of prosperity," he said. "On the other hand, it's not as thoughe people are starving."
at the study. The study breaks down salaries into the average for professors, associate professors, assistant professors and instructors.
According to the report, the average salaries last year for KU faculty members were: $33,000 for professors; $24,200 for associate professors;
THE AVERAGE salary for KU associate professors finished in the bottom 20 percent, while the salaries at the three other levels finished in the bottom 39.9 percent, the study
$20,500 for assistant professors; and $15,900 for instructors.
The average salary for all ranks came to $27,700 the report said.
The report also revealed a difference in the average wages of men and women faculty members at KU.
The average salary for male professors was $33,400, while the average salary for female professors was $11,600.
FEMALE FACULTY members also received lower salaries than male faculty members at the three other teaching levels, the report said.
Salary increases for all KU faculty members in 1801-62 failed to keep pace with salary increases at other institutions.
Average increases ranging from 6.8 percent to 8.0 percent for the four teaching levels at KU were below the 9 percent average salary increase of all institutions, the report said.
The income of KU faculty members also failed to keep up with inflation. The inflation rate was 1.8% in 2014.
The AAUP produces the report annually. It relies on data that is processed and tabulated by Maryse Eymonerie Associates.