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friday, september 12, 2003
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the university daily kansan 3A
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Provost David Shulenburger addressed the Faculty-Staff Convocation yesterday in Budig Hall. He highlighted the need for achieving excellence through planning.
Chancellor: Lack of funds reason for low salaries
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Faculty members said morale at the University of Kansas had been low since the nation's economic downtown, but the University administration has a plan to fix it.
Low pay for teachers has been a chief cause for the low morale, Lloyd Sponholtz said at the annual Faculty-Staff Convocation yesterday. Salaries at the University are in the bottom 10 percent among public research institutions.
"The past two years have seen a deterioration of faculty and staff morale," he said. "It's time to acknowledge that publicly."
Sponholtz, an associate professor of history and president of the faculty council, called for action from the administration.
David Shulenburger, provost and executive vice chancellor, acknowledged the problem but focused on the positives.
which the Legislature pledged to make the teachers' salaries on par with other universities.
He said that help would come from Kansas Senate Bill 345, in
"it's not just a promise," he said.
"it's a law."
It's a law.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway blamed the low salaries on the state's lack of funding. He said that while donors, students and staff were bringing in more money every year, the state continued to cut the budget.
cut the budget.
"To me, that's a relationship that seems to be breaking down," he said.
he said.
Rather than sit back and hope for the Legislature to volunteer the money, Hemenway proposed that the University should go out and prove to Kansas that the state needed to fund a strong flagship university.
"The key to a prosperous state of Kansas is a prosperous educational system," he said. "The stakes are high — that's why the situation is so frustrating."
situations. He said that accentuating the positives of the University was the best strategy.
"The key to a prosperous state of Kansas is a prosperous educational system."
Robert Hemenway chancellor
plain folder than the University's high enrollment, high quality of students and praise from reviewers as signs of the faculty's and the University's abilities to triumph over financial hardship.
"Whining and complaining don't get us anywhere," he said. "If they did, I would whine and complain louder than anyone."
umph over that. He said that advertising this, as opposed to complaining about low salaries, would convince Kansas to give them more money.
"We're proud, and we should be telling the state of Kansas why they should be proud too," he said.
- Edited by Shane Mettler
Students, faculty petition snack bar closing
By Danielle Hilliix
dhillix@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
Lunch at Murphy Hall is hard to come by.
Students and faculty have had to make new plans for lunch ever since Union Food Services closed the snack bar in the performing arts building this semester.
Union Food Services decided to shut down the snack bar after three years of declining sales. With no profits, the University of
Kansas could no longer afford to keep it open, said Jay Glantz, director of Food Services.
The closing has upset students and faculty who frequent Murphy Hall, located north of Allen Fieldhouse. A group of Murphy Hall regulars have started a petition to reopen the snack bar. So far it has 191 signatures. Glantz said he had also received e-mails and phone calls about the closing.
cans about Emily Stewart, Kansas City, Mo., junior, safd she didn't understand how the snack bar was not making money.
"Everybody was always there for lunch," she said. "Plus they overcharged for everything."
But the convenience made up for slightly higher food costs, Stewart said.
Stewart said. "We're not complaining about the prices, we just want our snack shop reopened," Stewart said.
shop repaired, Stewart.
Stewart, like other music and
theater majors, often spend eight
hours a day at Murphy. She said
she rarely had time between
classes to walk to Wescoe Terrace
or the Burge Union to buy food.
"The students are all hurting."
Stewart said. "But the teachers are probably feeling it the worst."
are productive. Even more so than students, faculty and staff spend all day and many evenings in Murphy, making the closing of the snack bar a major inconvenience, said Jeanne Klein, associate professor of theater and film.
For now, Klein and others in Murphy are packing their lunches or not eating at all. But they haven't bagged the idea of getting their snack bar back.
getting them shut While he did not make any promises, Glantz said that
reopening the snack bar next year was a possibility. For example, if the KU Cuisine program took off, Union Services would consider returning to Murphy, Glantz said. KU Cuisine is a University meal plan that allows students to eat at 12 locations throughout campus using their KUID card. The snack bars in JRP Hall and the Art and Design Building — similar to the one that closed in Murphy Hall— are part of the plan.
Edited by Ashley Marriott
Contest seeks high donor turnout
The Community Blood Center will host its fifth annual "Battle For Blood" this weekend, a competition to raise donor awareness.
The event pits the Lawrence Police Department, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical, and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office against each other in a contest to see which can bring in the most blood donors in a week.
The Community Blood Center recently went into a state of "emergency appeal," meaning it has less than one day's supply of both positive and negative type-O blood, the type that can be given to anyone.
anyone
“Part of the problem is that all of the area blood banks are low.” said Cindy Schmiedeler, spokeswoman for the Community Blood Center.
Schmiedeler speculated that one reason for the low amount of blood donors was students being distracted by back-to-school activities.
Those wishing to donate blood can go to the Community Blood Center at 15th and Kasold streets tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Donors can sign up for the department they want their donation to count for.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical seeks to win for the third time in a row this year.
For more information about the blood drive, contact the Community Blood Center at 843-5383.
Joe Hartigan
kansan.com
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