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University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1982
Officials develop plan to cut catalog printing, distribution
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
University officials have developed a plan to print and distribute fewer undergraduate catalogs, Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said yesterday.
The changes, which must be approved by the chancellor, are in response to budget cuts last summer and have caused writing of the publications, Eversale said.
Jim Scally, administrative assistant to Chancellor Gene A. Budig, said there had been some discussion among University administrators about charged information which contain class information and University policies on admissions and housing.
"Nobody wants to charge for them, but nobody wants to pay for them, either," Sally said.
The University used to send the catalogs to prospective students who requested them, but that would not be done under the changes. Eversole said.
STUDENTS MUST be admitted to KA before receiving a catalog, she said.
"If this doesn't work, then I'd expect for the future we may have to start charging for the catalogs," she said.
"I think there are a number of things we can do before we have to charge everyone for a catalog."
The University printed 35,000 undergraduate catalogs this year, but 15,000 of them remain unbound, Eversole said.
THE 29,000 that were completed will be distributed this year, and the 15,000 others will be distributed next year, Eversole said.
Under the proposal, officials would defer the printing of School of Law and Independent Study catalogs until fiscal year 1849 to help absorb the budget cuts of last summer, Eversole said. The publications originally would have been printed in late spring, shortly before the end of the fiscal year.
Besides cutting back on the number of undergraduate catalogs, officials
also have cut the production of graduate student catalogs to 12,000, which is 8,000 fewer than the number originally estimated. Eversole said.
The number of catalogs printed by the University has risen 7 percent since 1979, but printing costs for publishing have risen 57 percent, Eversole said.
"We have gradually allowed the number of copies we print to keep up with the demand," she said.
UNIVERSITY RELATIONS and members of a catalog advisory committee considered a number of options to curtail the growing costs.
Some of the options included shrinking the catalog content and printing the booklet every two years instead of every year.
"I'm expecting that we may have to amend our final plans," she said. "Sometimes during this year we will look down and look at the whole program."
She said it was the goal of the University to make sure that catalogs were available to all students enrolled and admitted to the University.
Engineering students to meet with recruiters
Engineering students will meet recruiters from 42 companies at the Engineering Career Fair today to find out about the technical opportunities that are available to them, the director of the engineering placement office said yesterday.
Most of the companies will return for job interviews with students who are scheduled to graduate in December and May, Mali said.
"The fair helps companies identify students they are interested in and students identify companies they are interested in," she said.
The director, Pamela Madi, said companies would set up exhibits from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Allen Field House to give students information on the type of projects the companies work on.
Attendance at the fair is restricted in the morning to graduating engineering and computer science students. Students are required to undergraduate engineering and computer science students in the afternoon, Madl said.
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Many times it will help a student decide whether he wants to go into mechanical, electrical, aerospace or paper of engineering. Williams said
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Senator's arrest leads to changes Ambler plans Senate improvements
Despite last week's arrest of a student senator on charges of stealing KU bus system funds, University administrators will probably not limit the number of students in budget decisions, KU's vice chancellor for student affairs said last night.
Calling the bus system investigation "a week of personal trauma," the vice chancellor, David Ambler, told senators that several changes needed to be made to prevent possible misuse of student funds and to improve Senate accountability. "Blame is not needed now, but responsibility is," Ambler said. "I am here to tell you there will be no retreat from your involvement so long as you can correct certain shortcomings.
Ambler's comments came after last week's arrest of Steve McMurry, Lawrence special student, on six charges of theft involving bus system funds. McMurry, 27, is scheduled to appear at 4 p.m. today in Douglas County District Court to face formal charges.
"I've had some very strong feelings of anger and frustration that this was allowed to happen to you and us. I am committed to helping you."
DAVID ADKINS, student body president, removed McMurray from his position as transportation coordinator and then resigned. McMurray resigned his Senate seat yesterday.
Ambler made three proposals that he said would improve Senate accountability.
He called for the creation of a student activity center, which would be located in the Kansas Union after the Kansas University Endowment Association and offered a program to Alumni Center next year. He said the office of student organizations would
move from its present office in Strong Hall into the new center.
Ambler also proposed the creation to a student accounts office, where students could be given ready access to their accounts and obtain financial institution. Some money, he said, would be required to create such an office.
"I consider it a small price to pay for ensuring financial accountability"
Ambler also proposed auditing Senate-funded student organizations.
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Adkins told senators the audit was necessary and did not imply any wrongdoing by the bus company. He said the audit would be comprehensive and extend to the first year the Senate contracted the bus company's services.
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The transportation board is scheduled to meet Sept. 28. The board, Adkins said, will try to make new agent predictions for KU's bus system.
John Sayler, director of KU's printing services, said yesterday that McMurray authorized the printing of 7,000 fall-semester bus passes. But according to the transportation budget estimates, only 5,300 would be sold during both the fall and spring semesters.
ADKINS SAID he said the council would be created before November. He said, however, that the Senate should concentrate now on the reestablishment of the transportation board, which has not met since last fall.
Adkins said Monday that he expected 4,000 bus passes would be sold this semester.
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McMurry also did not include revenues from the sale of non-student bus passes in the transportation budget. But Sayler said McMurry authorized the printing of 200 of the passes, which cost $46.
"It will be necessary for the board to determine just what the bus system revenue is." Adkins said last night.
Adkins said he proposed the idea of the coordinating council as early as June 29 because of frustration he had with the budgeting budgets of Senate's advisory boards.
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