FRIDAY. AUGUST 25,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102, NO.6
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
CAMPUS
Penciling in the past
KU architecture students sketch a portrait of Union Station in Kansas City. Page 5A
SPORTS
Happy returns
Kansas senior Ashundai Smith is listed as a wide receiver, but he's making his mark as a punt and kickoff returner. Page 1B
NATION
Windows 95 rankles some
The much-awaited Windows 95 software already has opponents. Page 7A
WORLD
China releases political activist
Harry Wu, convicted of spying in China, has returned to the U.S. Page 8A
WEATHER SUNNY
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High 93°
Low 68°
INDEX
Campus . 3A
Opinion . 4A
National News . 7A
World News . 8A
Features . 10A
Sports . 1B
Scoreboard . 2B
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GTAs, KU freeze negotiations
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Department of Human Resources has denied the University of Kansas' request for a mediator to help resolve a salary dispute with graduate teaching assistants.
Contract negotiations between KU and the GTAs are frozen until the department makes a ruling on a prohibitive practices complaint the GTAs filed Aug. 14.
The complaint alleged that University officials refused to bargain in good faith, but KU officers said both parties had reached an impasse.
Paul Dickhoff, director of negotiations for the Kansas Association of
Public Employees, which represents the GTA union, said there could not have been an impasse because no bargaining took place.
"They've stonewalled us. We've had meetings with them, but there has been no bargaining."
KU and GTA representatives met last June
Negotiations director for the Kansans Association of Public Employees
Paul Dickhorn
after KU officials announced that GTAs would not receive the same cost-of-living pay increase as faculty.
Although faculty received a 3.5 percent pay increase, the increases were deferred until January.
The University and the GTAs did not reach a compromise.
"They've stonewalled us," Dickhoff said. "We've had meetings with them, but there has been no bargaining."
Dickhoff said a mediator could not
settle the salary
dispute until
the Kansas
Department of H u m a n
Resources
determined
whether there was an impasse.
"If the board finds that we
don't have
enough evidence, that there has not been a lack of bargaining, then there has been an impasse," Dickhoff said.
has been an impasse," Dickhoff said. Mark Adin, human resources director for KU and the University's representative in negotiations with GTAs, said this was a bad time for
GTAs to have filed the complaint. Kansas Department of Human Resources policy says that the complaint must be resolved before negotiations can continue. The department did not specify a time frame.
Because contract negotiations are frozen indefinitely, possible GTA raises and benefits may not be added to the budget KU will submit to the Legislature next spring, Adin said.
"They can always file a prohibitive practices complaint," Adin said. "Now, the Kansas Department of Human Resources has to determine if KU negotiated in good faith, freezing any possibility for going forward with negotiations."
Several students eat lunch outside the Kansas Union. Even with temperatures in the mid-90s, students still enjoy sitting at the terrace south of the Union.
Cathy Bartlett / KANSAN
Books can be reserved indefinitely
By Brenden Sager Kansan staff writer
To a professor wanting to reserve books at Watson Library, time and space are limitless.
"I don't think I can require my students to read books that aren't there," said William Tuttle, professor of history and American studies, who has about 430 books on reserve. Most are scheduled to be returned to general circulation, he said, but how long the books have been there is anyone's guess.
Tuttle said he needed to put books on reserve so students in his classes could have priority access to them, even though thousands of other students would have a harder time getting to those materials.
"It's fair to my students," he said. "It just means that people have to stay in the library a little longer."
There are no limits on how long a professor can leave class materials on reserve at the reserve desk on the second floor of Watson Library, or how many materials can be taken out of the library's circulation.
There are roughly 4,000 materials available at the reserve desk, said Bayliss Harsh, reserve desk manager. Also, if an outside student needed to take out materials on reserve for a specific professor's class, he or she can contact the professor and have the materials taken off reserve.
Reserve desk employees send professors notices during the middle of every semester indicating which materials are on reserve, and how many of them there are, she said. The reserve desk employees try to make sure that no professor leaves library materials on reserve for longer than they are needed. Harsh said.
Harsh said that the reserve desk maintains close ties with professors and their departments to make sure none of the library's materials are out of regular circulation for too long.
However, if the professors say they need them, the discussion ends there.
"I did this as a service to students," said Jack Oruch, professor of English. He has about 100 books on file — some of which
have been there for two years.
But Orruch said that instead of taking library books out of circulation and making them less available to students, the reserve desk had the opposite effect.
"If those books are on the shelves in the stacks, basically the students will clean out the shelves." he said.
Oruch has found that students who did not know exactly what they were looking for took a hit-or-miss approach to their research. He said that students checked books out — not knowing if they needed them or not — and his English students who knew that they needed the books couldn't get the books.
"Ive had this problem over and over again," he said.
Student found after phone call
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
A KU student who had been missing since Saturday is thought to be in New Jersey, the student's roommate said yesterday.
Julie Tolbert, a Columbia, Mo., senior, told friends she was leaving to visit her sick mother in Columbia. Tolbert's parents said Tuesday that she never made it to Columbia, and they didn't know where she was, according to a KU police report.
Tolbert's roommate, Melissa Kerdock, Scottdale, Ariz., senior, said she still had not heard from her roommate but that a mutual friend had called and said Tolbert was probably in New Jersey.
Tolbert's sister, Sara, said Thursday from Columbia that the family had finally heard from Tolbert Sara Tolbert declined further comment.
Kerdock said Tolbert met a man at a horse show over the summer in Kentucky or Virginia who said he could get Tolbert a job at a New Jersey horse farm. Tolbert frequently participated in equestrian sports.
Kerdock wasn't sure why Tolbert had decided to leave so suddenly but speculated that family problems could have been the reason.
"I figured she would explode and take off eventually," she said.
Tolbert had planned to graduate in May and attend physical therapy school, Kerdock said.