NETS KU $6 MILLION
Research: big business Student affairs panel examines liquor policy
By Linda Sleffel
Most of what one sees in the Office of Research Administration is papers-fat folders and reports, figures and technical language. But it represents nearly $0 million dollars a year in research grants for KU faculty members.
Last year the office handled 311 applications for grants, and 168 were awarded, for a total of $5.95 million. Because of the delay in awarding grants, some of the awards were for applications submitted earlier.
Processing the applications and handling the paperwork involved in the grants is the job of W. J. Argersinger Jr., associate dean of faculties for research.
"THE FACULTY MEMBER is in charge of the actual research," says Dean Argersinger, "but all other aspects of the research program are handled through this office. Our job is to relieve him of the non-productive side of the research."
All applications for grants for research and advanced training programs on the Lawrence campus, except engineering programs, are submitted through the Office of Research Administration. The engineering applications are handled by the Center for Engineering Research. Research programs for the Medical Center in Kansas City are processed through a separate office.
The research program begins when the faculty member presents a proposal to the research administration office. They may be completely planned programs, Dean Argersinger said, "or somebody may just wander in and say, 'I have an idea for a research project.'"
In either case, Dean Arger-singer helps to plan the project and conduct negotiations with the financing agency, until both the agency and the researcher are satisfied with the program.
ONCE THE GRANT is made and the research begins, the business office takes over some of the paperwork in the form of bills, vouchers and financial statements. But the correspondence handled by the research administration office may still amount to two or three files three inches thick.
Included in the files are letters of application, budget reports, questions on allowability of costs, and applications for approval of travel involved in the research.
Sometimes a large file is accumulated for a project which is never carried out because the researcher cannot find an agency which will finance it.
Departments which have well-established and vigorous research programs have better luck in finding funding agencies, Dean Argersinger said. Part of the season is "grantsmanship", the ability to formulate a program which
is likely to be approved by the agency. But the chance of getting the grant also depends on the state of the research program.
"MOST AGENCIES won't consider a proposal where they have to finance the beginning of a research area in a school," he said. "There has to be an established program to go on."
Research administration also tries to find and encourage talent in the faculty and to inform the faculty of research opportunities, by means of memoranda and copies of notices of grants.
When the research project is finished and the technical reports—which do not go through research administration are written and published, the final reports on budget and equipment are made and the folder is retired.
"By then, the professor has long since begun another research project," says Dean Argersinger, "and we're making a new file for it."
Most of the money comes from federal agencies, but there are also grants from private foundations.
Despite the absence of members, the Council on Student Affairs was to meet this afternoon to discuss the present University policy prohibiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages on campus.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of the committee, was out-of-town today. Donald K. Alderson, dean of men and another committee member, also did not attend the meeting and would not comment on the student opinion letters the committee was to receive.
Last week, Dean Woodruff requested that interested members or groups from the campus community who wish to express themselves, submit statements to the dean of students office for the council's consideration.
The council was organized about three weeks ago as a permanent body to make recommen- manent body to make recommen- versity regulation concerning student conduct in non-academic areas.
Book entries due Friday
Friday is the last day students may submit their book collection entries in the tenth Elizabeth M. Taylor book awards competition.
The competition is open to undergraduate students. Entries, which must be owned and collected by the student, are limited to a selection of, normally, not less than 35 nor more than 60 books.
Collections need not be large or expensive. Judges are primarily interested in the entrants' intentions and in collections which successfully fulfill these intentions. Past entries have covered such fields as motion picture history and pseudo-science.
Each contestant should submit a bibliography of his collection with a statement of his purpose in making the collection to Terrence Williams or John Knightly at Watson Library. Preliminary judging is made on the basis of the bibliographies and statements.
4 Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 22, 1966
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