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FEATURES
Power behind the scenes
Chancellor Hemenway's secretary may well hold nearly as much power as he does.Page 8A
SPORTS
Playing in the pros
Former Kansas football player Chris Maumalanga tells of life in the NFL. Page 1B
NATION
Charges against aide dropped
Presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos will not be tried for leaving the scene of an accident and driving with expired tags. Page 7A
Tom Leininger/KANSAN
Servicemen accused of rape
WORLD
U. S. authorities have detained two Marines and a sailor for raping a 12-year-old Japanese girl. Page 7A
WEATHER
CHANCE OF SHOWERS
Weather; Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion...4A, 5A
Nation/World ...7A
Features ...8A
Sports ...1B
Scoreboard ...2B
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Hemenway: A helmsman with direction
Chancellor Robert Hemenway just completed his first 100 days in office, a period usually considered indicative of a leader's abilities.
First 100 days mark new style, more challenges
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Long-term plan for higher salaries is one aspect of 'attainable goals'
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
Sept. 8 marked Hemenway's first 100 days in office, a time frame often used as an opportunity to assess an elected leader's performance, and the consensus is that he has been effective in setting goals for KU and has accomplished much in three months.
Cancellor Robert Hemenway has found all the ATMs on campus. He knows how to get to Green Hall. He knows all the Lawrence telephone prefixes.
And he arguably has become one of the most productive chancellors in the University of Kansas' history.
"I feel a special bond with you," he told members of the freshman class at student Convocation on Aug. 20. "Like you, I am a bit apprehensive. I too, am a freshman."
Today, Hemenway has found his way across campus and his niche as the leader of Kansas' largest public university. Those who have served under other chancellors at KU say his effect on decision-making is unprecedented.
Ed Meyen, KU's executive vice chancellor, has been at KU for 23 years. He said Hemenway and
He knew that there would be lean and
not-so-lean
Lindy Eakin Associate vice chancellor for administration and finance
former chancellor Gene Budig differed in their approaches to administration because of differences at KU in 1995 compared to 1981.
"When Budig came to KU, there was one definite agenda: the fund-raising effort." Meyen said. "Today, you have a different situation in a budget reduction — a very difficult task."
Hemenway's approach to the University had been open-minded and inquisitive.
Major changes at a large university cannot be made in 100 days, but Meyen said Hemenway's willingness to address difficult situations was indicative of his dedication to positive change.
"His challenge is different, but he keeps this sense of energy, the observation of need to improve the University," he said.
Hemenway has offered a list of 10 improvements that he wants KU to enact by the year 2000. Among the improvements are increases in faculty salaries, but recent projections of a very
tight 1997 state budget have dampened hopes of significant pay increases for government workers in the near future.
"Clearly, that's why he made his projections for five years," said Lindy Eakin, associate vice chancellor for administration and finance. "He knew that there would be lean and not-so-lean years, and he had built that into his expectations. The goals are there, though, and that is a fundamental shift — he gave these achievable, specific goals."
Eakin said Hemenway's strides to increasing minority faculty and student counts were another example of the setting of attainable goals.
Hemenway also set goals of expanding curriculum at the Regents Center and increasing research funding by almost $30 million at KU.
Results of Memenway's policies and decisions have yet to be seen, but administrators say all of Memenway's goals are attainable and much-needed.
Hemenway has asked for student and faculty input.
His e-mail address is rhemenway@ukans.edu. His speeches and his "15 points of a great university" can be found on the Internet at http://www.urc.ukans.edu.
'Out to lunch'is cast out
Policy requires offices to remain staffed all day
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas may be less likely to encounter "Out to lunch" signs hanging on University office doors if Chancellor Robert Hemenway has his way.
James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said administrative departments had been asked to stay open and staffed during the traditional lunch hour of noon to 1 p.m. The point, he said, was to better serve students and faculty.
Some offices have only a receptionist that takes calls and messages during that time.
"My suspicion is that many are open over the noon hour," he said. "The chancellor has just requested that students always have the offices available to them."
Scally said the chancellor's request was not necessarily a new policy at KU but simply a way to make the University more student-friendly.
Some University offices, called at random, were empty on Friday between noon and 1 p.m. Most had someone to answer the phone and take messages, but few were fully staffed at that hour.
On Friday, for example, no one was available at the Organizations and Activities Center. The phone was not answered at the School of Engineering. Administrators were unavailable at the graduate school office.
Steve Ramirez of the affirmative action office said the office had decided on its own to stay open during the lunch hour. Students with problems or questions, he said, could talk to someone anytime during normal office hours.
The office of student life has remained open through the lunch hour since last summer, said Jim Kitchen, dean of student life.
"It is a good decision," Kitchen said. "We are a public institution, and it's pretty hard to serve the public with the doors locked."
Kitchen said the decision was made before the chancellor's request.
Two weeks ago, Hemenway appointed a 21-member task force to make the University more student and faculty-friendly.
See OUT TO LUNCH, Page 2.
KU Environs delays demonstrations
Group decides to wait after University unveils plan to improve campus
By Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
"We didn't want to cause any unnecessary problems for the administration," said Sarbpal Hunda, Olathe senior and member of KU Environ.
When members of KU Environs learned of the University's proposals to make physical campus improvements, they decided yesterday in a meeting to postpone their demonstrations.
"We didn't want to cause any unnecessary problems for the administration."
The group had planned Action Week, which was to include speakers and presentations in front of Wescoe Hall to discuss what the group considered to be some of the University's environmental problems. The group also had planned a demonstration called Critical Mass, in which KU Environs members would ride bicycles through Lawrence traffic at rush hour to protest the abundance of buses and lack of bicycle paths on campus.
Sarbpal Hundal Member, KU Environs
But KU Environers decided to wait after learning yesterday that the University's physical development planning task force had recommended closing Jayhawk Boulevard to private vehicles, establishing a park-and-ride shuttle system from the Lied Center to the main campus, and demolishing certain campus buildings for extra parking space, new buildings or lawn space.
The biggest problem the group had with the development plans was that the task force had not addressed KU's bus problem, Hundal said. He said that if something wasn't done about the diesel-fueled pollution machines, KU Environments would hold protests with redoubled vigor.
Jeff Livingston, Wichita senior and
"I think the (University's) plan is a good idea," Livingston said.
member of Student Senate's transportation board, also attended the group's meeting.
Livingston said that both the University and Senate had more work to do.
"The transportation committee has no long-term plans regarding the buses," he said.
A draft of the 20-year plan will be presented to students in an open forum from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The task force plans to meet with student, faculty and neighborhood organizations to discuss concerns about the plan.
KU delays sanctions in Delta Chi hazing case
The University delayed decking on hazing sanctions against Delta Chi fraternity yesterday to give David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, more time to review the decision, said Bill Nelson, Greek program coordinator and assistant director of organizations and activities.
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Delta Chi's fate remains in limbo for another day.
The University's sanctions were to be announced last night at a meeting attended by Nelson, Delta Chi president Braden Hopkins and representatives from the alumni chapter and international headquarters of Delta Chi.
The fraternity has been charged with hazing after an August incident that hospitalized Delta Chi members Nate Hines and Adam Mues, both Keaney, Neb, sophomores. Mues withdrew from classes after suffering from kidney failure. He has since enrolled
in KU correspondence courses
Hines remains at KU.
Nelson said the University's sanctions should be made final and given to the Delta Chi chapter today. He declined to disclose details of the sanctions.
Steven Bossart, director of alumni services from Delta Chi's headquarters in Iowa City, Iowa, presented a draft report of the fraternity's sanctions at last night's meeting. But Bossart said he could not release the report until it had been given to Delta Chi's board of regents — which was expected within 10 days.
Bossart did confirm reports that the fraternity's sanctions included placing the KU chapter under two-year alumn conservorship and beginning fraternity expulsion proceedings against four members.
Hopkins said he was ready for the sanctions to be made final. "It wears on you, but I have
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"I wear on you, but I have complete faith that what happens will be fair," he said.