THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
City airport criticized
No.155
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, July 2, 1975
See page 5
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Camp contortions
to Lissa Leonard, Independence. Leonard is one of 41 girls attending the Jayhawk girls basketball camp.
Hot. humid weather and dawlong drills combine to bring misery
Groups squeezed out of building
By BRUCE SPENCE Kansan Staff Reporter
The GRNC building had been occupied by the School of Engineering, which allowed students to work in the building.
Two campus groups may soon find themselves without a home when the KU Endowment Association begins to renovate their buildings or west campuses for its own use.
B. G. Barr, executive director of CRINC, said other groups used extra space in the building only with the condition that it was temporary.
TWO GROUPS, the KU Radio Club and the radio-TV-film division of the School of Journalism, have been unable to find new locations for equipment that is still in the CRINC building. They were to vacate the building by June 30.
"They always moved in with that understanding." he said.
oneric Hardman, a member of the KU radio club, said the club had been under attack.
He said Barr implied that the radio club school of Engineering had control of the building.
"THE INDICATIONS," said Hardman, "were that they would not lose control of it.
Robert Rankin, assistant professor of linguistics and adviser to URU Radio College, said that he didn't anyone in his situation. He said that because nothing had been published, it was easy to have a chance for it.
"I guess we just didn't think about that at all." It wasn't just unwitting, it was considering the possibilities.
BRUCE LINTON, director of radio-TVFILM, said he wasn't told the arrangement was temporary until a month after his return. "We were very careful with equipment into four rooms of the building,"
The Endowment Association has allowed them to leave equipment in the building facilities.
Todd Seymour, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, said that he wasn't sure what would happen but that the situation was being investigated.
Martin Henry, director of property management for the Endowment Association, said the tenants had been given approval to build on the land, and the building had been scheduled for July.
of a delay with drawings and specifications from a mechanical engineer.
He said he'd not know when work would start, but he expected it to begin sometime the following year.
The Endowment Association, Henry said, has been planning to move to another location because the present building is too large. The new construction makes fire a greater problem.
"OUR RENOVATION of the building will involve work in every room," he said, and the risk involved, particularly with radio equipment, would be out of this world."
"We can't begin to put everything in that vault we would desire to have protected from fire, should such a frightful thing ever happen." Henry said.
A new vault is planned for the CRINC building, he said.
THE CRINC BUILDING has always
Work hasn't started, Henry said, because
The lease on the no-rent basis stipulates that the University provide upkeep, insurance, repairs and any internal modifications and additions to the building.
belonged to the Endowment Association, Henry said, but has been occupied by the U.S. Air Force.
All the spaces will be used by the Endowment Association for offices and storage or administration of some kind, Henry said.
Henry said some of the tenants had requested to stay but were turned down.
"I appreciate the needs of every one of our groups, but we can't let them stay," he said.
Regents announce KU budget decision
By JACK McNEELY Kansan Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents has approved an 11.4 per cent increase in general use funds for the University of Kansas fiscal year 1977 budget.
The Regents approved KU's request for increases of 10 per cent in faculty salaries and wages.
KU RECEIVED **$44.3 MILLION** in general use funds for fiscal 1976, which began yesterday. For fiscal 1977, KU requested **$6.6 million** in general use funds, an increase of 17.2 per cent. The Regents **$33.8 million**, an increase of 11.4 per cent.
"IT LOOKS AS if they've given us a rather austere budget," Shankel said. "They've cut things we really need and think we can justify. But, given the state of the economy, they have difficult budget decisions to make."
The Regents' decisions on the fiscal 1977 budget were reached in closed session Monday in Topeka and released last late fern evening. Executive Vice Chancellor Del Shunkel
The Regents call a request to replace wear equipment from $407,273 to $154,069. They cut requests for library development from 30.1 per cent to $250,214 - a reduction of 30.1 per cent.
THE KU BUDGET is made up of three
units: (a) commercially derecused use
funds and auxiliary enterprises.
The requests for equipment replacement and library development had been given by the Board.
from taxes, they are the crucial part of the budget.
Restricted use funds come from money generated within the University, such as library and parking fines. They are spent primarily on the programs that generate them. The University must get Regents approval to spend restricted use funds, but the Regents generally let the University spend them as it wishes.
MONEY FOR AUXILIARY enterprises comes from student services, primarily housing, health services and activity fees. They are also spent primarily on the programs that generate them. Expenses from auxiliary enterprises also must be covered by the Regents but here again the Regents generally let the University spend the money as it wishes.
KU's total budget request for fiscal 1977 was $31.1 million, including $66.6 million in general use funds, $1.5 million in restricted use funds, and $11 million in auxiliary enterprises.
According to the Associated Press, the recipients approve $84.4 million for the KU beverage operations and will operate enterprises, an increase of 11.2 per cent more than the amount received from 1975 session and 1976.
SHANKEL DIDN'T know how the Regents had treated the requests for restricted use funds and auxiliary enterprises.
Late last night Shankel knew only that the Regents had approved an 11.4 per cent increase in general use funds, cut from the 17.2 per cent increase KU had requested.
The $100,000 figure was arrived at by taking one per cent of KU's current inventory of equipment, which is about $40 million.
The request for about $400,000 for equipment replacement, which the Regents cut to about $154,000, was one of KU's highest priorities.
BUT THE REQUEST of one per cent of current inventory assumes that all equipment will last 100 years. For example, if a typewriter is bought for $300 and replaced at a rate of one per cent, or $3 each, it would take 100 years to accumulate the cost of replacing it with a replacement rate of one per cent, the typewriter would have to last 100 years.
All the Regents institutions submitted similar requests of one per cent of current students.
During the 98s much equipment was bought with federal money. According to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, the federal government dried up and the equipment needs care.
The Regents have in the past denied
the government spend state money to replace
wrong equipment.
When asked whether the request of one per cent of current inventory was an attempt to the Regents to agree in print that all equipment be replaced equipment bought with federal money and whether the request might be raised to 5 or 10 per cent in future years, Dykes said. "We would like to have it in the established part of the needs of the University."
"We will continue to seek for the University funds for equipment needs. The one per cent will obviously not be adequate."
Shankel said some of the Regents' cutting in reducing the $400,000 to $154,000 occurred when they refused to allot state funds to equipment bought with federal money.
Lewis to spend 2 weeks in jail
Lewis was found guilty of battery in June. He was accused of hitting Officer Bill Morrill with his car after he and Morrill argued about traffic violations.
Steven Lewis, former assistant professor of social welfare, has been ordered by District Court Judge James W. Paddock to serve two weeks of a six-month jail sentence for the battery of a University of Kansas security and parking officer.
Judge Paddock denied a motion for acquittal and a motion for a new trial today. Lewis attempted to show that evidence was not sufficient to prove the publicity had been perjudicial to his case.
Paddock said Lewis had failed to introduce new evidence to overturn his conviction and hadn't shown that publicity affected the jurors' decision.
The jail sentence is to begin Monday. The court will decide tomorrow what Lewis will do.
Faculty bargaining unit discussed
Witnesses were called yesterday at the Kansas Public Employer-Employee Relations Board (PERB) hearings to aid in the investigation of a project in a proposed faculty bargaining base.
By JACK FISCHER
Kansas StuFF Reporter
Calgaard he thought the majority of chairmen fulfilled the state statute's description of a supervisor, which would legally exclude them from the unit.
THE WTENESSES were called by Inara Horton, representing the American college football team at Michael Davis, University attorney, to answer questions regarding the inclusion of department chairmen and faculty equivalents, such as research associates, in university sports teams.
that a final draft of a decision by the relative to the faculty would soon be read.
RONALD CALGARD, associate chancellor for academic affairs, said that the inclusion of department chairmen in the bargaining unit would necessitate the creation of a new level of bureaucracy to assume the chairman's supervisory func-
Regarding the research associates, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, testified
The AAUP originally wanted to include department chairmen in the bargaining unit and exclude research associates. The administration wanted to include research associates and exclude department chairmen.
In her closing statement Horton said that when the new titles were designated, research associates should be included in the system on the type of work they are engaged in.
Only research associates holding degrees at least equivalent to faculty members in their field would be eligible for inclusion in the unit.
DAVIS DISAGREED in his closing statement, saying all research associates supported the University's mission of research and, therefore, all should be included.
Carl Leblen, associate professor of oriental languages, who deferred his own unit proposal, because the administration's proposal was better organized, said most chairmen wanted to be included in the bargaining unit.
However, Davis said that although health service employees were different in most respects, their salaries were comparable to the average faculty and that this justified their inclusion.
Closing statements regarding whether department chairmen should be included in the unit will be given at the start of today's meeting.
Horton and Davis also disagreed as to whether University health service employees could be trained.
After the end of yesterday's meeting Calgaard said the University was unlike any labor management group because its employees were only a fraction on any satisfactory bargaining unit.
Horton said they had no interests in common with the faculty and on that basis the department would have to accept.
By TONI DIXON Kansan Staff Reporter
the faculty demonstrated little interest in collective bargaining.
DAVIS SAID it was unfortunate that the university was forced to spend so much money on the renovation.
StudEx reexamines full drugs coverage
Raymond Goetz, professor of law, who was representing the School of Law at the hearings, disagreed with Davis saying that it had been typical of labor-management practices. Davis managed to not recognize their employees' desire for collective bargaining.
In April the Student Senate approved a policy in which the $2$-$a-year drug rider that had formerly covered all prescription costs was removed. Under that policy, the student would pay the first $100 in fees and 20 per cent of the next $900.
Total prescription costs may again be included in Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance policies if StudEx can negotiate a discount. For details see the Hyle, StudEx member, said yesterday.
IN AN EEFORT to retain the drug rider,
IN AN EEFORT to reduce in rates of
the prescription,
Steve Segebrecht, StudEx member, was appointed to draw up the contract and to meet with Kyle Ward, Blue Cross-Blue Healthcare, in Chicago, and others, to discuss these changes.
The new policy, without the drug rider,
would cost $44.44 a year for single students,
which would reduce the number of dependent
and $30.20 a year for families.
With the drug rider, policy costs would be
increased by $26.76 for single students,
$55.32 for students with one dependent and
HYLE SAID she received more than 40 letters from students who were in favor of the new law.
"Most people I talk to are upset because they were not consulted," she said.
Segebrecht said the majority of the policy holders didn't spend more than $$ 2 a year on them.
A petition may soon be available in the
MARYLOU REECE, student body vice president, said, "The people we're hurting are the ones who are buying the policy for other reasons than drug expenses."
Kansas Union for students who wish to express their opinions about the drug rider and the Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy, Hyle said.
Last spring semester 3,456 policies were sold. covering 5,118 persons.
StudEx members debated Sunday whether most of the strong support for the drug rider might come from policy holders in high prescription bills in the coming year.
$61,000 was paid in health insurance,
averaging $17 a person in 1974.
The present policy includes three categories: health benefits, major medical coverage and prescription coverage after the first $100.
Hyle said, "Last year the prescription
were $75, but now it's $30. We're
getting less coverage on cover."
THE PRESENT DRUG coverage, as well as the rider, would cover prescription costs anywhere, not only at Watkins Hospital. Hyle said a local pharmacist told her it was easier for pharmacies to collect from Blue Cross-Blue Shield than from students.
Hyle said the new contract was presented to the Student Senate by the senate's health
See StudEx page 5
Watson replys to charges of favoritism
By LYNN PEARSON
City manager Buford Watson said last night that Lawrence was attempting to enforce the city's minimum housing code fairly for all the city's residents.
His comments came as a response to a story last week in the Lawrence Journal-World in which Ed Covington, city minimum housing code inspector, said that Watson wouldn't let him do his job properly and had told him to "take it easy on the job." Daniel Linbark associate professor of physics and astronomy.
Watson apologized for the delay on legal action to force Ling to bring his properties on Ohio Street up to city housing standards. He said that some of the repairs that the city was trying to force Ling to make hadn't properly ordered by the housing inspector.
"Now we have things laid out and are ready to accomplish what we want," Watson said. "We're on the right track now, legally and procedurally."
Watson and Mayor Barkley Clark disagreed on the city's legal authority to enter houses for inspection against the wishes of the owner.
Clark said that the U.S. Supreme Court had "clearly determined" that showing probable cause wasn't necessary for a forced housing inspection when a house was within a red line target inspection area such as the Hill Target Area.
Clark directed Watson to ask the city legal staff to compose a memorandum on the city's legal authority under the housing code.
Watson said that Milton Allen, city attorney, had said that there must be a reason to inspect the house. There must be a complaint from a neighbor or tenant or the house must look dangerous and unhealthy before a warrant can be secured, he said.
"We've been getting this in bits and
we've said," he said, "I think it help all of us
us to know what our legal options are under our housing code."
Commissioner Carl Mileck agreed with Clark. He said that there was no point in having something that was unenforceable in the code.
Watson said the major goal of the housing inspections program was to get houses fixed, not torn down and that it took a lot of time to do that.
Mibbeck said that if rehabilitation was the city's goal, the administration should reflect a more positive attitude when dealing with property owners.
"You can't tell by reading those letters they send owners that rehabilitation is the goal. Mibeeck said. "Phrases such as 'this hurts' come down should be forever struck."
In other action the commission allocated $4,000 to the Douglas County Child Care Association, awarded bids on two street projects, set public hearings on four properties and received copies of the proposed 1976 city budget.