University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1982
Page 7
Libraries hurt by budget cuts
By MATT BARTEL
Staff Reporter
A decrease of more than $159,000 budget in the University of Kansas Libraries budget this year has left several positions in need. A backup in operating hours at one branch.
The cutback and position vacancies are the result of a 2.2 percent library budget reduction and the University's withdrawal of $33,000 in enrollment adjustment funds, money that is appropriated to the University by the Kansas Legislature based on changes in enrollment totals.
The withdrawals effects will be especially felt in the catalog department, which had earmarked $1,500 for a salaried research assistant to help answer questions that output Microfiche, or COM catalog, of Mery Roach, catalog librarian.
"Cutbacks in any department within the library will really have a detrimental effect," she said yesterday. "We all have to do what we can to get the job done."
The COM catalog, Roach said, will replace the current card catalog while using only a fraction of the space. She said the library had received no assurance from the University that the research assistant vacancy, and others that may arise within her department, would be filled.
"The potential for huge backlogs is there if (fulltime staff) turnover picks up and the positions are not filled." Roach said.
Another problem that could arise from the cuts is theft of periodicals, said Jim Ranz, dean of libraries. Funds that are used to bind several months' periodicals in one hardbound copy have been cut in half, from
$100,000 last year to only $50,000 now,
Ranz said.
He said if a large number of periodicals cannot be bound, there will be more loose copies in the stacks that can be accessed and carried out the door undetected.
In addition, Rant said, there will be large cuts in the number of guides and study aids the library puts out, a move that could make it more difficult for students unfamiliar with the library to find books and reference materials they need.
Marion Howey, documents librarian,
said the documents library located on
the top floor of Spencer Research
Library had had to reduce the number
of hours it operates, from 68 to 58 hours
per week.
The documents library is now open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Last year it operated from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
Jim Neely, reference librarian, said his department had lost one full-time position, reducing his staff by one-eighth.
"A one-eighth loss is nothing to sneeze at." Neely said.
He said the reference desk was getting some of the overflow from the circulation desk, which has lost two full-time positions.
"Things in circulation will move more slowly." Ranz said.
He said that it would be more difficult now to keep up with the workload there.
Kendall Simmons, circulation librarian, said the staff is working from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the circulation desk, with student help filling in later.
"It's more work for people and more balancing on my part to fill the gaps," Simmons said. "It's a pain in the neck but I think we will survive it."
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David Allen, Lawrence junior and member of the Student Senate, met with an unexpected disappointment as he received a grant from Grant check when he enrolled Thursday.
Some not notified of change in formula Cut in grants upsets some KU students
"I if I had k.o.wn I wasn't getting the grant, I would have applied for a student loan," he said. "But it's too late for me." He shocked . . . astounded and angry."
"The Pell Grant will help needy students," she said. "Not all students are receiving help from social security and government assistance, so divide the money as fairly as possible."
He was told he would not receive it.
"The person working there said, 'I'm sorry, I don't have a check for you.'"
Alleg said.
"I was asked if I were a veteran, a orphan, or receiving social security benefit that told them I was to the financial aid office for an explanation."
As a war orphan, Allen receives veterans education benefits. Donna Kempin, assistant director of assistance for the Department, Allen was receiving VA benefits, he was not eligible for grant money this academic year.
Those students affected by the cuts are determined by a formula which adds their family contribution amount to the total contributions received over an eight-month period.
Rogers said his office did not yet have a tally of the number of students affected by the late cuts in aid.
"The Pell Grant is just one part of the (financial aid) package," Kempin said. "The school tries to help students with the work study, work history, loans, and scholarships."
If that amount exceeds the Pell Grant eligibility, then the Pell Grant cannot be.
"A lot of the reductions came about, but most of the information students need about awards is in the student financial aid handbook," he said.
and many students were not notified until the first of August or, like Allen, during enrollment.
Allen said, "Maybe if I had been noti-
died I wouldn't have been so incensed."
According to Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, many students received notification of award reductions and cuts, but some did not.
Rogers said financial aid notification was done through a computer program. A prepared message is generated for award adjustments, but something in the computer program had not triggered an error which has now been corrected.
"I was counting on the grant money to pay my tuition and books," Allen said. "My VA benefits are just enough to meet living expenses.
"The University acts as the disburring agent for the government. Every dollar awarded in that (Pell Grant) program that is overawarded, the University if liable for. We made the effort to notify students in good faith, but we can't award money for which a student is not eligible." Rogers said.
Truck accident could cost KP&L $40,000
Damage estimates caused by a truck that crashed into the Kansas Power & Light Company building Tuesday have raised concerns about two free officer manager for KP&L.
Earlier it was estimated that $15,000 to $20,000 damage was structural, and an additional $12,000 was estimated for office equipment damage.
Fike said KP&P representatives later
found what looked like additional structural damage in the south wall, which was moved off the foundation by "a fraction of an inch."
A 2 1/2-ton dump truck crashed through the west wall of the building after colliding with a car at the intersection of Ninth and Tennessee
Both the driver of the car, Nurjehon
Jivani, 27, 1741 W. 19th St., and her passenger, Kalpana Trivadi, 23, 1708 Kentucky St., were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The truck, owned by W.A. Dunbar & Son, was driven by Donald Church, 45, 828 Elm. Church was not injured in the accident.
No KP&L employees were seriously iniured in the accident.
"Everyone is all right," Fike said.
"That's the important thing."
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One frequently encounters vigorous criticism of our government's reactions to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the imposition of martial law in Poland, and the propos-
SHOULD WE IGNORE SOVIET OPPRESSION?
Michal Marenko, a Soviet disident who underwent several years of incarceration before being expelled from his homeland in 1978, was interviewed last May by a Washington Times correspondent. Mr. Marenko described the frightful conditions political prisoners would be forced to endure when they "clear the forests, build the roads and the first living quarters for the more skilled specialists who will put the timeline in place."
Mr. Merenko emphasized that "as in the past, it is going to be human bodies that will then this unlicious fundrather through which the lineage will be built."
While discussin' the high mortality rate suffered by the inmates of these Soviet prison camps, Mr. Marenko agreed with Alexander Solzhentyn's conclusion that some 66.7 million people died in such camps during Stalin's reign. Here are three of Mr. Marenko's responses to questions posed by the Washington Times
Q. If Western countries help the Soviets build this pipeline, what risks do we run?
A. The greatest is the immorality of the entire project, since the Soviets will use slave labor. Second, it is dangerous from the point of view of the strategic interests of the United States. The Soviets will be able to engage in gas warfare. Third, they will be willing to work with others who will be putting yourself in much the same position with natural gas as you have faced with the Arabs over oil. Third, you will give them credits and technology to build the pipeline that will, in turn, allow them to earn hard currency.
Q. To what partular purpose does they help?
A. To make them. For military purposes, they will use the hard currency they earn from the project to buy more and more of your technology, particularly computers. They also will use the hard currency to buy grain in order to have meat and bread. This new infusion will help them maintain their hold on the Russian people and the so-called 'liberated' countries like Poland that are unable to produce and feed their own populations. You must be aware of the fact that grain bought from the West always is earnarded for the Soviet armed forces, not the people.
not the people.
Q. You are urging a total technological embargo of the Soviets like the Carter grain embargo. But some have suggested that the grain embargo had no real impact on the Soviets.
A. I will tell you something not even your CIA knows and will probably take five years to find out. When President Carter imposed the grain embargo for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Central Committee of the Communist Party had developed a plan to liberalize and even abandon the inefficient collective farms to cope with the grain shortage. A plan was developed to spend great sums of money to abandon the collective farms and encourage private enterprise in Soviet agriculture. It also was decided to exempt practically the entire agricultural population from military conscription. But when the Reagan administration lifted the grain embargo, the Soviets had no need for implementing the plan.
Mr. Marenko asked that each of us:
Imagine yourself working ten hours a day in temperatures minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit and below. Imagine that you are forced to substate on a meager ratio of thin, tasteless cabbage soup. Imagine, at the same time, that you are suffering from pellagra, scurvy, dendryer, or tuberculosis. Add to these horrors the constant fear of being shot or beaten to death—and you begin to understand what life will be like for the political prisoners who will build the Soviet gas
This country has the resource (but, alas, not the will) to buy and use productively the grain grown for export both here and overseas. Of course our very productive farmers shouldn't suffer from the implementation of some governmental decision, but we should also reject, for comparable reasons, any such decision that brings undue suffering to courageous Alghani, Poles, and disarming Russians. William D.
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