University Daily Kansan
Wednesdav. September 8.1976
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University administrators prepare request for increased 1978 budget
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
Although the University of Kansas is only two months into fiscal year 1977, administrators now are preparing legislative funding requests for fiscal 1978.
The requests will be considered by the Kansas Legislature after it convenes next January. The University will ask for a total operating budget increase of $4.9 million more than fiscal 1977's operating budget of about $44 million.
If that amount is approved, a 9.2 per cent increase in state general funds over this year would be needed.
As in the past, however, various state agencies probably will attempt to trim KU's numbers.
KU'S BUDGET requests will be submitted, Sep. 15 to James Bibb, state budget director; Gov. Robert Bennett; Marlin Hill; and Daniel Analyst; and to the state board of Regents.
The Regents examined and trimmed the Lawrence campus' increase requests by about $1 million in June. Administrators based upon Regents' recommendations.
Salary increases of 7 per cent for unclassified (mostly teaching) personnel will be sought by the University. Administrators also will ask for a 10 per cent increase in operating expenses for the Lawrence campus.
ALSO INCLUDED among legislative
Affirmative Action checks committees for minority seats
Each dean, office director and departmental chairman at the University of Kansas received a letter yesterday from the Office of Affirmative Action, surveying the University's compliance with KU's affirmative action plan.
Marc Cottrel, survey coordinator, in the affirmative action office, said yesterday it was the first time such a survey had been conducted at KU.
The survey's purpose is to make the University comply with a part of the affirmative action plan that requires a maximum effort to include women and minority group members for all University committees involved in recruiting, he said.
It also states that on elected committees, a provision should be made in theimation process to insure that women and men are reasonable opportunities for election.
Upon appointment of members to a committee, the appointees' names must be reported to the Office of Affirmative Action, indicating whether minority group members or women have been appointed or elected.
The committee membership must be designated by race and sex.
The survey also requests information on the election or appointment of committee members and the membership selection process.
Cottrell said no results would be released until after the deans and chairmen returned to office.
requests will be $189,870 for purchase of new library books and equipment; $186,476 for replacement of scientific equipment used in several schools and departments; and $100,734 for personnel for the new Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
The Regents also recommended that the total number of classified (nonteaching) employees at KU be increased by as much as 206. The University would hire more employees as funds became available for their salaries.
Other funding requests include $133,000 for study of chemical quality of western Kansas irrigation waters by the Kansas Geological Survey and $50,680 for a Master's degree program in the department of human development and family life.
A REDUCTION in general fee income of $166,241, which would have compensated for a proposed waiver of fees paid by graduate teaching assistants, wasn't approved by the Regents so it can't be requested from the legislature.
Proposed increases for higher utility costs will be considered later this year or at the first of next year because of indecision about how much those costs might increase, according to Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs.
Nitcher said the state budget division would analyze the budget after it was submitted and would make recommendations to Bennett. Administrators will attend a governor's budget hearing this fall to explain their requests.
BENNETT THEN will recommend how much funding he thinks KU should receive and include his recommendations in an overall budget message to the legislature. That statement will include his proposals for funding for all state institutions and agencies.
Requests for funding will be given to the Ways and Means Committee of the Kansas House of Representatives. That committee will conduct research on the six Regents' colleges and universities.
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Viking 2 cameras view Utopia Plain
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP)—The second viking 2's swivel cameras took its first look at the Utopia Plain yesterday, scanning the sky with desert sieve site bereften unseen by man.
The new views might help scientists understand how that section of Martian landforms form.
Using the stereo pictures, scientists will choose a new site for Vikir 2's first attempt to use its mechanical shovel arm to scoop up rocks from a miniaturized life-detecting laboratories.
One such feature, he said, is a slight depression toward one side of an earlier picture that resembles a water-worn ditch or trough.
Some features of the area already photographed by the other camera on Viking 2's robot lander "suggest you can start thinking about exotic depositional water or ice," Thomas Mutch, head of the lander photo team, said yesterday.
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the terrain around Viking 1's lander, 4,600 miles away.
The additional coverage provided by the most recent pictures could help out when you have a problem.
One of the objects of Vlking 2.3 soil analyses will be to confirm or deny the "tantalizing, but inconclusive" findings of Vlking 1.
Also on Viking 2's experiment agenda was its first test of the atmosphere above Utopia P1.
Using a sensitive, complex instrument called a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer, the robot laboratory will be able to detect the atmospheric gases detected by Viking 1.
Scientists are particularly interested in finding traces of argon and nitrogen gas, because the relative abundance of the two elements can help scientists trace the history of Mars' atmosphere back billions of years.
Yesterday's lander photographs were the first to be taken stereoscopically. This process, taking two pictures of the same scene from slightly different angles, produces photos with a three-dimensional appearance.
If Viking 2 finds organic molecules, he said, "That would do it for us," as far as conclusions about the existence of life on Mars.
Viking 1 seems to have been reporting the discovery of life for the past few weeks, Gerald Sefaln, Viking's chief scientist, said Monday. But he said its experiments failed to demonstrate the carbon-based, or organic, molecules that are found in every living thing on earth.
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