THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.121 Tuesday, April 8, 1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Budget requests cut by Senate committee
By JIM BATES Kansan Staff Reporter
Although the Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee was unable to finish its final deliberations Monday night, it did not recommend any preliminary cuts in several groups' requests.
The largest cut came in the budget requested by the Federation of Black Student Social workers, which was cut from $2,400 to $100. The Federation of Chicago and American Indian Student Social Workers noted that its budget cut greatly, from $700 to $50.
Committee members said they thought that much of the work done by the two organizations could be done under the auspices of the KU Federation of Student Organizations, which is an black organization seemed unorganized and they criticized its budget presentation.
CPA seeks new sources of revenue
By BRENT ANDERSON Kansan Staff Renorter
Alternative sources of funding are being sought by the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) in an effort to keep the industry under control, Carol Boone, CPA director, said Monday.
One alternative for obtaining funding for the CPA might be to consolidate student service organizations that overlap, thus making more money available. Boone said.
The CPA funding request of $10,896 for fiscal year 1976 is being considered by the Student Services Committee, which can allocate only $14,449. Funding requests tootling committee, which had $30,064 to allocate to student service organizations last year.
Pat Weiss, president of the CPA Board of Directors, said CPA would search out all possible sources of money before making a decision on whether to dissolve the incorporated status of the Consumer Protection Association. Present Student Senate funding for the CPA will run out July 1.
Benny Palen, a member of the CPA board, met with Student Body President Ed Rolfs Monday afternoon to discuss possible changes in organizations whose services overlap.
Palen said Rolfs told him it might be possible to consolidate organizations that
See CPA FUNDS page 8
Applications for UDK posts
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the Kansei for the summer session and the winter session, until noon April 11 in 105 Fint Hall.
Application forms are available in 105 Flint; the Student Senate office, 106B Kansas Union; the office of the dean of men, 228 Hard Hall; and the office of the dean of women, 222 Strong.
The Kansas Board will interview candidates and select summer and fall editors and business managers on April 16.
Bill Blessing, committee chairman, cautioned the committee that the cuts might create some internal political problems within the School of Social Welfare. It is not
Request Alcaline Associates
Ransas Defenders Project $1900
School of Engineering Student Council $1300
School of Engineering Student Council $2600
Aeronautics and Airbrushmen $1000
Women in Law $875
Design Students Council $823
U.S. Design Students Council $373
Federation of Student Social Workers $1300
Federation of Student Social Workers $633
Alpha River Engineers $1179
Alpha River Engineers $634
Student Social Workers $2400
Student Social Workers $10
American Indian Social Workers $700
American Indian Social Workers $1600
necessarily a fair assumption that the three groups will work together, he said.
The Federation of KU Student Social Workers also had its budget cut, although not as extensively. The federation, which is run by the university, has been allocated $455 as of Monday night.
Most of the cut in the federation's budget was due to the committee's refusal to allocate funds for a typewriter. The Black Student Social Workers had already said they would buy a typewriter for the office and send them back. By year's end, committee members noted.
The committee, which has only $9.673 to allocate, considered requests from 14 organizations requesting $18.019 Monday night, prematurely allocating $7.993. The committee met again Wednesday to consider requests from seven groups requesting $7.170.
Blessing said it was obvious the committee had considerable cutting left to the. The committee is going to have to go back to cuts in some organizations, be said.
3. organizations besides the Black Student Social Workers build their requests
Alpha Rho Gamma, a newly revived jewelry and silversmithing supply and service organization, was only allocated $76 of the $1,178 it requested. The organization was tentatively given $26 for the purchase of jewelry, or $46 for the purchase of educational slides.
The Black American Law Students Society's request was tentatively cut by $1,131, and from $1,961 to $830. Members debated the organization's emphasis on out-state recruitment. The group's travel request was not cut as extensively as some other areas, since the committee agreed to allow students at University was the society's main function.
Before it began deliberating shortly after 8 p.m., the committee finished its budget hearings. Five groups appeared: the Budget Committee, the Program, the Student Bar Association, the
The Blackticks' request was cut by almost $1,300, from $2,065 to $710. Large cuts were made in funds for the printing of field trips were requested for field trips were cut entirely.
See BUDGET page 5
By Staff Photographer BARBARA O'BRIEN
Tournament touche
Fencers went out in front of Watson Library yesterday were advertising the State Poll Championship to his weekend at last week's tournament.
Lawrence; Rick Jamison, Eudora junior; Larry Wisdom,
lawrence graduate student and Gzik Zhnk, Lawrence senior.
Committee to study KUAC budget
By STEVE BOYCE
Kansan Staff Renorter
Cyde Walker, University of Kansas athletic director, will answer questions from the Student Senate Sports Committee tonight about the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) budget for 1975-76.
The $2,155,400 budget, which projects a net profit for next year of $30,000, has been approved by the KUAC board of directors and the chancellor's office and will be sent to the Board of Regents with the general University budget for final approval.
According to Walker, all the expected $30,000 profit will be used to whittle down a
$215,763 operating fund debt that has accumulated over several years.
KUAC will receive $147,000 from student activity fees next year. KUAC is expecting an additional $50,000 from student ticket sales in football and basketball next year, to be applied toward capital improvements and debt payment.
Med Center faces freeze,possible cutbacks
Kansan Staff Renorter
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
Cutbacks of some medical services at the KU Medical Center are imminent if the hospital fails to receive authorization to enter the center, a year two. Med Center officials said Monday.
The officials said the hospital had the money but was waiting only for authorization from the Kansas Legislature to spend it. The bill containing the request is being considered by the Senate Ways and Means committee.
William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, announced last Thursday a freeze on all hiring at the hospital. He said additional cutback measures are necessary if the Med Center receives authorized income to spend extra money in the pear future.
"Closing is a very distinct possibility," he said. "We'll definitely do all we can to keep the wards open. But if it comes to where care is less than adequate, we'll close those wards. For us to bring a patient here wouldn't be fair to him, in that case."
Breman said all hiring, from janitors to administrators, was included in the freeze. He said the hospital lost about six nurses a week. Because these nurses won't be replaced, he said, some hospital wards may require a curtail service soon, or even close down.
"When hospital occupancy goes up, it results in an increased need for supplies and increases in expenses, as well as increased revenues," Brennan said.
He said the Med Center had underestimated its receipts from patient revenues for this year and was now asking that they be paid. Those new revenue those were already collected.
One official, Charles M. Brennan, assistant vice chancellor for the Med Center, said the freeze was a necessity. If the Med Center continues to hire replacement personnel, it will illegally go over this year's budget, he said.
KUAC expects to spend $225,200 on basketball next year and to have an inlay from basketball of $235,400 for a net profit of $29,750
"Money is no problem. We have to look to the legislature for authorization to spend it. We're not trying to steamroll the legislators into something."
Almost one-half KUAC's expedit-
pendents, $955,560, will be spent on the KU
football program next year. However, the
expenditure is only about $108,500,
out the expected profit is $132,490.
A second Med Center official, J. Howard Feldmann, assistant vice chancellor for finance, said the Med Center needed as well as well
Means committee would approve the Med Center's request.
"I think there is a tragic, tragic mistake being made. It is a vicious circle we're in. I don't know how long we can continue that We'll need to conserve dollars some place."
Feldmann said the Med Center last year had requested a 10 per cent increase in its occupancy legislation. But a request of only 5 to 6 per cent was approved. Infusion has often gobbled up that increase, Feldmann said. He could understand the
Both Feldman and Brennan said they saw little hope that the Senate Ways and
"We have the facilities, we've got the talent and we've got the need," he said. "Who's being served if we can't spend more money?"
State Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia and Ways and Means committee chairman, said the request didn't have the approval of Gov. Robert F. Bennett. Doyen said he would be surprised if the committee approved the request.
Feldmann said he couldn't understand the legislature's reluctance to approve the amendment.
consists of Bennett and the leaders of the senate and House, will consider on June 27 requests such as the one being made by the Med Center.
Clyde Hill, Bennett's legislative assistant, and the Med Center still had one recourse open to it if the senate refused to approve the request. The Finance Council, which
"We were just trying to have good business practices by putting the lid on what they could speed." Hill said of the limit that now applies to Med Center expenditures.
Football and basketball carry the burden of financing the other sports at the University. Track, baseball, gymnastics, lacrosse, football have no budgeted income for 1975-76.
Truck is the University's most expensive non-revenue sport. Its estimated expense is $50 million a year.
"We understand that they can't always get their estimates of patient revenues right on the money. But they should also be able to make better estimates."
The track program is budgeted separately from the Kansas Relsays Program, which shows an anticipated expenditure of 000 to exactly balance expected income.
Expected costs for the other non-revenue sports are $40,510 for baseball, $53,430 for
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By RICHARD PAXSON
State offers job service to grads
Kansan Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—University of Kansas seniors, many of who doubt they will find jobs after graduation because of the depressed state of the national economy, will now have one more source to turn to when seeking employment.
The goal of the program is to put prospective graduates in contact with employers in the state, according to Bob Kent, director of the Kansas Employment Security Division, which is administering the program.
They will be officially informed of this new opportunity in letters they will receive later this week. The letters will be from Project Sheepskin, a program announced by Robert F. Bemett last year to help keep colleges and universities in the state.
Kent said Monday that 15,000 letters were mailed this week to prospective spring graduates of KU, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Fort Hays State College, Emporia Kansas State and Kansas State College at Pittsburg.
The letter will invite students to complete an enclosed resume form and state a geographic preference within the state for employment. It will also provide a brief description of the jobs for which they might be qualified.
The information will then be compiled into a booklet and mailed, with a letter from Bennett, to the 10,000 employers in the state who have 24 or more employees. Letters will be sent to the state's 36,000 other employers so that the booklet is available if they request it.
At the same time the student is supplying
the information requested in the letter, he will also be registering for employment with the state job service office closest to his hometown if he is a permanent resident of Kansas. The offices will then try to match graduates with jobs listed at the office. The office address at his permanent address if a job is available for which he might be qualified.
The state government might also recruit some of the students for jobs in the state university.
The Kansas program is modelled after a similar program begin last year in West Virginia, Kent said. In its first year, 400 of the 2,000 graduates who participated in the West Virginia program were placed in jobs in the state.
The West Virginia program is expanding this year to include graduates of the state's
See JOB SERVICE page 5
Two faculty groups prepare for collective bargaining
By BERNEIL JUHNKE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Two University of Kansas faculty groups are preparing to take the first step toward collective bargaining, even though they're not sure whether the faculty wants it.
The Lawrence chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a group of five faculty members headed by Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, are ready to present work unit proposals at up-to-date Public Employees Relations Board (PERB) bearings.
Frances Ingemann, AAUP president, said last week that faculty members were a piloted year to see whether collective bargaining was favored, and said that responses were divided about half and half.
The PERB hearings will decide on a work unit for KU faculty and will be one of the first steps toward building a new campus.
"The AAAUP decided that unless there was a clear majority, there was no point in going toward a resolution."
The AALP decided to draw up a work unit proposal, she said, so that in case any other group
should take action toward collective bargaining, the AUAP wouldn't have to meet on an emergency
Leban, a member of the AAUP's executive committee, said Monday that at an emergency meeting of the AAUP's executive committee last year he had moved that the AAUP file a petition asking for unit determination as the first step toward collective bargaining. His motion failed for lack of proof. He said he told the executive committee at that time that he would file a petition on his own.
Leban and four unidentified associates petitioned for the PERB hearings.
"Those procedures punish those who have done the most for Affirmative Action." he said.
The emergency meeting had been called to discuss the so-called Affirmative Action salary plan.
Affirmative Action salary procedures were to be implemented at the departmental level, he said, but with the exception of the job offered.
He said the Affirmative Action salary procedures were one of the issues that made him push for a more liberal immigration policy.
"Wherever there was injustice or supposed injustice it had to be ameliorated by taking whatever funds the department had been given for everybody's salaries and using them to adjust discrepancies. That meant women or minority members could be taken care of first out of whatever money was available.
"These departments that had taken no AF-Formative Action in hiring weren't penalized."
The Affirmative Action salary procedures are actually anti-Affirmative Action procedures, he said, because they teach departments that if they pay the majority and minority members they will be penalized.
The supply budget is another area of negative reinforcement, he said. He said that departments were encouraged to economize but that any surplus money at the end of the year was taken away from the department and that the amount allotted to the department for the next year might be reduced.
"Department chairmen learn very quickly that they're not supposed to save any money." Lebanah
He said there was also a pattern of negative reinforcement in University policies.
Under collective bargaining, he said, the faculty
would have a voice in determining many issues other than wages, such as class size, academic achievement.
Ingemann said she didn't think collective baiting was necessary right now.
"These are proper concerns of the faculty on which the faculty presently has no voice," he said. Leban said the University Senate, SenEx and the University Student President, because they were limited to advisory roles.
Though issues such as retirement are being considered by University governance committees, she said, the committees have no power to enforce their decisions.
Ingemann said that although more faculty input in University decisions might be desirable, there is a need for them to be fully engaged.
"in a collective bargaining situation there would be power," he said.
After observing labor negotiations at other
"We have an administration that is fairly responsive to faculty concerns," she said. "The legislature has shown it is interested in the faculty by the salary increases it has passed."
She said the administration would also be able to make demands on the faculty.
universities, Ingemann said, she thought the relationship between the faculty and the administration in collective bargaining would be that of adversaries.
"Collective bargaining is a situation of confrontation," she said. "Each side comes in with workers demanding more than they can ever get the most offering less than they will be acceptable."
Ingemann that collective bargaining is different from traditional labor bargaining. Not only are wages and fringe benefits an issue, she also but also the instructional situation is a concern.
Both the AAUP and the Lebanese group's work unit proposals include full professors, associate professors, assistant professors, acting assistants, librarians (I4I), lecturers and instructors.
The AAUF's proposal also includes department chairmen and excludes research associates and counselors. However, the Lebanese group's proposal includes research associates and includes research associates and counselors.
See FACULTY page 7