University Daily Kansan, August 19. 1982
Summer
From page one
As students return to classes, the traffic on Clinton Lake dwindles, but this solitary sailboat recently took advantage of the last warmth of summer.
Lawrence police officers and the city compromised on a work agreement.
SUSAN PAGE/Kansas
CITY COMMISSIONERS unanimously approved a 1984 work agreement July 26. The agreement guarantees a 6 percent salary increase in 1983 and a 5 percent increase in 1994. These increases would provide a $18,500 beginning salary to a new police officer.
The Lawrence Police Officer Association would not sign an earlier contract agreement
The city offered an 11 percent increase over a ten-year period, but the LPOA asked for a 13.5 percent increase.
The tight economy was the reason commissions gave for offering only a 6 percent in return.
The new agreement allows for a wage reclassification study for police officers, an annual $20 allowance for boots and a reduced roll call, or unpaid time, from 20 minutes to 10 minutes.
Another controversy of sorts—not though as important as the police contracts—was the September issue of Playboy magazine. The magazine girls from Big 9 schools, including four from the city of Kansas. Three of the girls recently signed copies of the magazine at a downtown book store.
AS STUDENTS left Lawrence last May, a recall election was set for Tom Gleason, city commissioner, to end a controversy between Gleason and the Lawrence Committee.
The committee petitioned for Gleason's recall because he asked for City Manager Buford Watson's resignation. The recall attempt failed and Gleason remained in office.
Watson's employment record had been reviewed several times by the city commission last spring. During the summer, commissioners appalled at the way the mayor voted to increase his salary by $1 percent.
Kannas Board of Regents schools were forced to cut their budgets at the request of Gov. John
The University of Kansas paired 4.3 percent from its 1983 budget, and spending at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., was reduced by 2.5 percent.
Summer students, faculty and staff members felt the effects of non-air-conditioned buildings. During June, 34 buildings had air conditioning turned off to save $140,000. The Kansas Legislature regulate enough money for KU utility bills, which cost a 32 percent increase in natural gas prices.
Although the Equal Rights Amendment became history June 30 when the number of states needed to ratify it fell short by three states, a local chapter of the National Organization for Women will work to keep the issue alive in the November elections.
Lucy Smith, president of the Lawrence chapter, said earlier this summer that NOW will work to vote out those people who were against ERA legislation.
NOW will also work to increase public awareness of what the bill means and will promote
KU professor elected secretary of national group
Patricia L. Ewalt, acting dean and a professor of the School of Social Welfare, has been elected secretary of the 90,000 member National Association of Social Welfare Workers, the world's largest organization representing professional social workers.
Currently chairman of NASW's Clinical Practice Task Force, Ewalt also serves on the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board for the state of Maryland and is a consultant to several local health agencies.
In a recent press release, Ewalt said she thought a primary goal of NASW was "to provide information to legislators to demonstrate how
specific social programs, rather than draining the economy, are absolutely essential to maintaining it.
"Social workers can and should provide information to concerned lawmakers showing how elimination of social programs not only hurts the individuals and families affected, but prevents them from maintaining themselves and contributing to the general economic welfare," she said.
A cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College, Ewalt received a bachelor's degree from Simmons College School of Social Work. Boston, and Master's degree from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
She is a former vice president and member of
the national board of directors for the Council or Social Work Education and is a member of the Board.
NASW activities include legislative analysis and political action, the development of professional standards, information and advocacy on a national level, and continuing education and membership services.
The organization has national offices in Washington, D.C., and 55 incorporated chapters in the United States, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico. One of NASW's major goals is to improve access to care for all human services and to promote access to services for all residents of the United States.
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