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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CHILLY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.34
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, October 8, 1976
KANS-A-N use being questioned
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Faculty members dispute financial exigency attack
By JERRY SEIB
Half Writer
A small but vocal group of faculty members bristled last night at suggestions that they would be sacrificing their rights to policy to be used in a time of financial crisis.
Dan Adler, national secretary of the Association of American University Professors (an academic chapter of the association) chaired a chapter on financial exigency policy would give the chancellor too much power to dismiss tenured faculty members. Faculty members themselves, he said, should play a role in determining who would be dismissed.
ADLER TOLD ID audience members that portions of the proposals were "improper, roundabout, not completely ethical and probably immoral."
Several members of the audience obviously were agitated. Some shook their heads as he spoke, and the audience was shocked in its defense of the proposed document.
The financial exigency policy, outlining procedures to be used if a shortage of funds requires dismissal of tenured faculty members, is scheduled to be voted on by the University Senate Nov. 18. The policy has been in the making for three years and is intended to be an important compromise between the administration and the University government system.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL, the chanc-
ter, after consulting with government
officials, shall make a statement.
faculty members would be dismissed. The chancellor could also retain nontenured faculty members if he decided that their education was essential to the operation of the University.
That system, Adler said, would allow the chancellor to decide who would be dismissed and would give faculty members only an intermediate role in the procedure.
After the chancellor decides who would go, Adler said, dismissed faculty could appeal their dismissals to faculty government bodies. But faculty groups' decisions would then go to the chancellor for final action.
ADLER SAID THAT the chancellor would become the initial judge and final arbitrator.
"With one fell swoop, he can, depending on what kind of man he is, abrogate the tenure under rules you the faculty are promulgating." Adler said.
It is easier to give the decision to the administration, Adler said. But, he said, it is the faculty's duty to decide for itself who would be dismissed.
Letting the administration decide, he said, would be passing the decision to "someone whose role is appellate, not judicial."
'IT'S CLEAN SURGERY', he said. "But who the patient and who walks away with it?"
Audience members quickly defended the financial exigency policy, which was composed by a Senxh committee. David McMullen, executive director, thought that you not read our document.
There are things that indicate a cursory reading."
Adar asked Dimaen to list the portions in his remarks that indicated a brief reading, and Dimaen responded, "No, I don't want another five hours at this meeting."
Several audience members said that provisions of the document requiring the chancellor to confer with the faculty members on the matters pertinent to the university's guaranteed faculty participation.
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice chancellor, said the University's "tradition of faculty participation in decision making" to the chancellor would confer with others.
Richard Cole, professor of philosophy, said he feared "tearing up the University internally" if faculty members were forced to choose which of their colleagues would be dismissed.
"The politics within the departments would be horrendous," he said.
Allowing the administration to decide which faculty members would be dismissed would give the faculty a better chance to appeal, and the faculty could appeal, to the department, to appeal, the decision of a faculty body.
ADLER SAID HE realized that the legal responsibility to make all final decisions rested with the chancellor, but argued that he should be given the right to make a multilateral decision.
"The document you have here puts into
the hands of administrators the decision
to hire your intern."
See FACULTY page two
Still milkin'
The last remaining milkman in Lawrence with a regular route is Raymond Schimmel of Lecomptein. Schimmel, who has been
milkman in Lawrence for 30 years, begins his deliveries of a 3 a.m. and delivery 240 gallons of milk to lawrence homes by 9 a.m. See
Women's pay hiked to meet men's
By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
Some female faculty members have had their salaries raised this year to remedy possible sex discrimination. Ron Calgaard, exsecutor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
the level of their male peers. The number is an estimate, he said, because it is impossible to determine which merit pay rewarded solely to eliminate discrimination.
Calgaard said that about five women received pay raises to bring their salaries to
Between 60 and 70 cases of possible pay discrimination were investigated before any pay increases were awarded for fiscal 1977, Calgaard said. Except for the cases in
Wichita Med Center facilities
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
Above: Debbie Hinnen, a diabetes educator working on her masters at WSU, test reflexes as part of the diagnostic process. Upper right: the audio-visual center is equipped with an ultrasound machine and a cassette presentation. Lower right: Diana Guthrie, diabetes
murse specialist, monitors the response of Richard Allen, physician's assistant at WSU, on the Bifeed back machine. The machine gives a constant audio signal that can be raised to 100 dB or lower to show him how to control such things as blood pressure.
included in Med Center's scope
Rv RARRARA ROSEWICZ
Staff Writer
WICHITA—The University of Kansas is spreading its name in health care education beyond the confines of northeast Kansas.
Its health education program now includes the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and a recent branch of the Med Center—the Wichita State University Branch of the KU School of Medicine.
The Wichita branch accepted its first group of students in 1974 but hasn't yet graduated.
"There's still a certain amount of mystery about us, because people are not really sure what we're doing up here on top of a dormitory," Brad Gordon, acting director for student programs and development, said yesterday.
The Wichita branch is the center of a clinical training program, the second half of a medical student's undergraduate education. Enrollment in the program was limited to 29 students this year.
A new building is to be built in about 2% years, he said, and will be shared with the College of Health Related Professions, a college within WSU. There are no legal ties, however, between the two programs.
STUDENTS COMPLETE basic science training at the Med Center before their 18 months of clinical training at Wichita. They receive the same degree from the KU School of Medicine as students in the Med Center's program.
Richard Walsh, associate dean of the branch, and the Wichita branch is unique in having a large library.
Unlike the Med Center, the Wichita branch has no hospital of its own but uses community hospitals as practicing grounds for its students.
"STUDENTS GET more exposure to private practice and family practice in the Wichita branch than in the Kansas City program because a large number of students have private practice and it is in their patients used for the training program," he said.
The Med Center gives a more practical exposure to patients, Walsh said, because there are many referred cases. The Center with rare and unusual problems.
number of community physicians as teachers.
Wichita branch students get their clinical experience in the Professional Practice Clinic, which deals with pediatrics, internal medicine and nursing. In addition, the St. Joseph Medical Center and Wesley Medical Center, all in Wichita. The
"Here, students see the bulk of the routine type patients that they'll see in
Wichita Veteran's Administration
Hospital is to do the orionam next year.
which raises were awarded, Calgard
expansion of department, school ex-
planations of difference
STUDENTS ARE offered instruction in family and community medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and surgery.
Medical students were out of town yesterday visiting with communities about residences that might be available when they graduate in January.
Students in the clinic do patient histories, conduct physicals and consult with physicians on a diagnosis, Tonya Gillespie, nurse clinician, said.
In the hospitals, she said, they make the rounds and care for the patients under the supervision of a faculty doctor. She also co-created 250 volunteer community physicians.
LORENE VALENTINE, director of business affairs, said that in the family practices, a private practice physician often works with a student one-on-one for three or four weeks. The students goes to the office, makes the rounds and
generally follows in the doctor's shadow, she said.
Walsh said the program was started so that more medical students could be trained and still receive enough clinical experience. More students at the Med Center would put a strain on the physical facilities there, he said, because there wouldn't be enough hospital beds and not for experience for all the students.
Because Wichita, the largest city in Kansas, has about 2,700 hospital beds that are usually full, he said, there are enough patients for students to work
Although WSU allied health students work with KU medical students in the clinic and the new administrative office on the WSU campus will be shared with students from KU but no legal tie to the university and that the programs weren't related.
IN MOST CASES, he said, pay differences between men and women can be explained by differences in length of service or in performance
"The major question is what constitutes sex discrimination." Calgaard said. "In general the approach is to look at it from the departmental level."
The cases of possible sex discrimination were listed in a study released by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) last fall.
"WE ASKED THE deans and department chairpersons to look carefully at the data to see if the differences were justified," Calgair said.
According to the study, average differences between the salaries of male and female professors had increased from the previous year in four of the five schools and departments that had both male and female professors. Associate professor salary differences, areas, and assistant professor salary differences decreased in five of seven areas.
CALGAIRD SAID he rejected the view that the difference between average salaries of men and women automatically constituted discrimination.
In one case, he said, a female professor received a "significant" increase in pay because the difference between her salary and her male peers' salaries couldn't be justified. That increase was granted before general salary discussions began.
The other increases in salary came in all three faculty positions and in various departments and schools. Calgaard are faculty members involved.
"You have to make peer comparisons within the departments," he said. "These global averages contain all kinds of differences."
Last year's OIRP study indicated that
See WOMEN'S page five
Senate seat still unfilled
A few Student Senators counted votes until 4 this morning, but were able to declare only five winners in the race for six Senate seats representing Nunemaker
Three candidates are still in contention for the sixth seat. The ballots will be recounted this afternoon before a winner is named.
The School of Liberal Arts will count the votes for College Assembly members and the president.
a total of 1,191 students voted yesterday and Wednesday to elect freshman class officers, student representatives to the College Assembly and the six senators.
Benita Bock, chairman of the Elections subcommittee, said she was surprised that so few students voted, because a record number of students did not vote in 1,500 students voted in last fall's elections.
The senators are Tom Byers (Jayhawk), 231 votes; Steve Conklin (Jayhawk), 206; Scott Morgan (Terra Firma), 205; Anne Minear (Terra Firma) 88 and Ralph Mannyan (Terra Firma) 195.
The sixth seat will go to Mike Harper (Daytime host) and Aylee (Apple Ple) or Kristine (Kimmie White).
Bock said she hoped to have the final results posted on the Senate office door by 6
The freshman class officers are:
president—Matt Haverty (Terra Firma), 174 votes; vice president—Chip Anthony (Terra Firma), 152; treasurer—Barbara Goolselk (USA), 183; and secretary—Dawn Daniel (USA), 180.