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University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1982
Faculty and staff associates see facts of administrative life
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
Did you ever want to experience the problems and joys of a KU administrator? That is exactly what four faculty and staff members will be doing this year, said William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor.
The employees are participating in the University's Administrative Associates Program, a one semester program that allows the employees to work part time in an administrative position.
"The program is designed to provide administration experience to those people interested," Hogan said yesterday.
The four $v$'s in the program are for two tenured faculty positions and two non-tenured positions. That basic criterion is a result of a review and restructuring of the program in 1979, Hogan said.
THE FOUR EMPLOYEES chosen to be associates for the 1982-83 school year are Janie Kozma-Southall, associate professor of French and Italian; Jan O'Neil, classified accountant, department of humanities; Harrison Smith, associate professor of social welfare; and Gail Hamilton, manager of staff training and development, department of personnel.
Hamilton and O'Nell will start in the spring semester. Smith and Koza-Mouth, Southlash, the two tenured faculty already started as associates this fall.
"The program is a challenge. It's up to my initiative to get involved, and I am permitted to do the kinds of things I want to do," said Smith, who is working with Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Smith said he was already involved in three projects as an associate. The projects deal with utilizing space in the University, studying links between the new computer en-rollment system and the office of academic affairs, and developing stronger ties between that office and the office of minority affairs.
KOZMA-SOUTHALL said she was working as an associate in the office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Afternoons are spent at the office, she said, and mornings she teaches classes.
Hamilton said she would be working with Richard Mann, director of institutional research, next semester. This coincides with her interest in the effects of computers on human resources, she said.
Med Center's fuel budget may fall short
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
KANAS CITY, KAN.—A 21 percent decrease in the University of Kansas Medical Center's utility budget could mean it will not have the funds to pay its fiscal year 1983 utilities bill, Jack Red, Med Center associate director of utilities system management, said yesterday.
"We have a very real and serious problem," he said. "People need to know we mean business when we say we need to control energy usage."
To compensate for the lack of money, the Med Center will enact an energy conservation program this week including better use of space, energy efficient lighting and equipment which uses less energy, Reed said.
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"With all of the measures we intend to do, I think we will still be short of being able to save over $1 million in this year," Reed said.
THE LEGISLATURE has budgeted $3,103,518 for the Med Center's utility budget, $1,010,179 less than 1982's total bills of $4,820,697.
The Legislature gave no explanation for cutting the funds. Reed said.
There have been no firm decisions made about what will happen if the bills exceed the budget. Reed said he did not think the Med Center would pay more, but he did say money might have to be taken from other departments.
He said he would not speculate which departments' budgets might be reduced, because the decision would have to be made by Health Sciences administrations.
"TOTAL NATURAL GAS cost for fiscal year 1982 was $35,000 and this year it will be 20 percent more," he said.
Reed said that rising fuel costs would greatly affect the budget.
The energy cost adjustment rate, the increase passed to the user when fuel price increases, could raise the
Randy Russell, University Relations employee, said the goal of the program is to increase employees' energy usage and to elicit their help.
electric bill 25 percent, Reed said. In July, the rate was 4.74 cents per kilowatt-hour. Last month, it increased to 5.24 cents per kwh.
"We have to change an employee's way of thinking. Everything they do costs them money as taxpayers," he said.
If energy consumption at the Med Center is continued at the same rate as last year, the electric bill will increase by 11 percent. Reed said.
THE CONSERVATION plans are not drastic. They include turning lights off in bathrooms when leaving, having offices on the same floor share one refrigerator or ice machine or closing blinds to keep the heat out.
Major considerations where savings will be the greatest are still in the planning stages. Setting standards for building temperatures, consolidating offices in little-use areas into areas that have available space and replace them with light fixture, would increase efficiency buildings are a few suggested proposals.
Both Reed and Russell stressed that under no circumstances would patient care be affected.
These increases prompted the Med Center to start a comprehensive energy conservation program this week.
The results from the conservation program will be hard to see, Reed said. If everyone is conserving the impact should be immediate, but he said he could not estimate the amount of savings.
In the past two years, facilities operations have taken steps to make Med Center buildings more energy efficient, Reed said. Single-paned windows have been replaced with energy-efficient buildings, and pipes have been insulated and repaired to increase their energy efficiency, he said.
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