Nichols denies labor group request for higher wages
A Student Labor Organization resolution asking University officials to endorse a wage raise statement was refused Tuesday by Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor.
The resolution asked the University to authorize the Kansas Union to raise wages of all employees to at least $1.25 per hour by May 1, and that a statement to this effect be issued by April 1.
Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village sophomore and SLO president, said that Frank Burge, Kansas Union director, had said that as of the next budget session union wages would be raised to $1.00 per hour. With fringe benefits this would be equivalent to $1.25 per hour.
NICHOLS SAID he had not spoken to Burge and did not know what fringe benefits would include. He said Burge "runs close to his operating budget" and "would be hard pressed to pay more."
In refusing to sign the SLO resolution he said the case "would have to be applied to the University as a whole." He said he would meet with SLO leaders at a later time to discuss it.
He said it is "unlikely that the University will approve a wage raise for one area without raises in the other areas."
The Union executive committee is meeting Friday to revise the budget for the year beginning July 1, and during spring break there will be a meeting with Nichols to review the proposed budget. Burge said.
"If there is good, logical, fundamentally sound reason, and if the wage raise can be appropriately applied to the end cost of the product or service, at the appropriate time we will take the position of considering $1.25 per hour (fringe benefits of meal discounts and use of uniforms included) for University of Kansas students," he said.
Workman in good condition
Lawrence Memorial Hospital today reported Lester Mills, 940 Rhode Island St., in good condition. He fell yesterday from the overpass being constructed over Iowa Street between McCollum Hall parking lot and a new university parking area.
Mills, a construction worker for the Freeto Construction company of Pittsburg, which is building the overpass, fell to the north bound lane of U.S. 59 and had to scamper off the road to avoid being hit by oncoming traffic.
College Life conclave set for Rock Springs
About 150 members of the KU College Life group are expected to attend the College Life Spring Conference to be held April 15-17 at Rock Springs Ranch near Junction City.
Conference chairman is Don Hess, Shawnee graduate student. Hess said that groups from Wichita, Kansas City, and Ottawa will also attend the conference.
The KU College Life group meets weekly and usually from 125-150 students attend each meeting, Hess said.
ONE OF THE guest speakers for the conference is John Gottuso, a California graduate student in sociology and psychology.
Seminars and discussions on topics such as "God's Dead—So What?" "A New Morality—A.W.O.L., A War on Love," and "The Frozen Chosen" are planned for the conference.
College Life conferences are held every fall and spring, according to Hess. One hundred twenty-five KU students attended last fall's conference.
Deadline for turning in reservations for the conference is April 11. All reservations must be given to Hess.
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CRC to concentrate on 'racial rights'
The Civil Rights Council last night voted to withdraw its support from all student rights issues and other matters of civil rights except those concerning "racial rights" at the meeting in the Kansas Union.
The motion to withdraw this support, introduced by Carol Chittenden, Lawrence senior, was with the understanding that CRC
Bus drivers get pay raise
With all the accusations and counter-accusations being filed by campus politicians this week it's amazing to note that there are still some honest, true, clean, forthright and brave people left at KU.
members had merely decided to concentrate on the racial aspect of civil rights, and that its members were not condemning any of the other issues.
The select group? Campus bus drivers who this week got a pay raise. Maybe it's combat pay, but in any case the majority of the lazy Oread students who regularly use the transit services can't deny that the drivers deserve the boost.
LAST WEEK the CRC voted to concentrate only on racial rights, but did not adopt any legislation withdrawing from previous commitments on other issues, such as "in loco parentis".
Neil Stone, Shawnee Mission sophomore and president of CRC, who was against both of the resolutions, said that the organization had greatly limited itself in scope.
"We should involve ourselves in the rights of all students and people," said Stone. "In loco parentis,' for example, is only one of the many areas."
The motion passed by a vote of five to two.
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