KU
THE SUMMER SESSION kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year,SSK No.12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER HOT
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Tuesday, July 25, 1967
—Kansan Photo by Lynniel O. Van Benschoten
FACULTY CLUB LEAVES CLUBHOUSE
The Kansas University Faculty Club will soon move to a clubhouse off-campus with more facilities. The present building will be used by the Endowment Association.
Faculty Club looking for off-campus home
By MATT KUBIK
The Kansas University Faculty Club has seen its last days on the Hill. The club, now at 1317 Louisiana St., is looking for an off-campus building with more facilities.
"We hope to be able to find a building with a swimming pool, a steam room and other facilities." Charles Saunders, club president, said Friday. "We want to become more attractive to more people."
The club will take a "leisurely year to find a new clubhouse.
"Before deciding on a definite location we are going to survey all the faculty members to find out what they're interested in. Unless we can attract at least half of the faculty, it's not really a faculty club," Saunders said.
THE CLUB PLANS to move out of its present clubhouse about mid-September. The furnishings of the clubhouse will be auctioned during the first part of September by Hays Brothers Auctioneers.
While looking for a new clubhouse, the club will meet in whatever space is available. The University-owned clubhouse probably will be taken over by the Endowment Association, Saunders said.
In 1951 the Buildings and Grounds Department added a wing to the building, which once housed the University High School. The Faculty Club was first opened May 20, 1951, through the efforts of a planning committee including Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, Helen Lohr, T. DeWitt Carr, Joseph Wilson, M.C. Slough, and Elmer Beth. After the addition the building had 17 rooms, including a lounge and dining room. A cook who had "enough experience to make the new dining place one that will satisfy the new members of the club" was hired.
Regents study salary increase
Faculty Club activities have included lectures, a fall tea, spring dinner-dance, children's Halloween party and bridge parties. All full-time KU faculty members are eligible to join.
Partly cloudy and continued hot and humid weather is forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau through today. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph thru tonight. High today near 95. Low tonight 70's. Precipitation probabilities 20 per cent today.
WEATHER
By RITA HAUGH
Salaries for KU professors averaged $13,831 for the nine-month academic year, ranking fifth in the Big Eight. Associate professors averaged $10,548, ranking fourth, and assistant professors received $8,959, ranking fifth. KU instructors ranked seventh in the Big Eight with $6,351.
KU's faculty salaries rank fourth or lower in the Big Eight schools, according to a report compiled from last year's salary figures by business officers in the conference.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe requested a 14.6 per cent increase in KU funds for the 1969 budget at the Board of Regents meeting June 26. A total of $3,536,462, or 79.8 per cent of the increase, will go for salaries if the Board of Regents, the governor, and the Kansas Legislature approve.
THIS YEAR the nine-month salaries are a little higher. Professors earn an average of $14,741. Associate professors earn $11,248, and assistant professors receive $9,544. Instructors earn $6,863.
The Board of Regents discussed the proposed budget behind closed doors July 20, and the board's recommendations to the governor are expected to be revealed this week.
The salary budget comes from diverse sources. Currently, a total of $8,596,760 of the salary budget comes from restricted fees, grants and earnings. The rest of the $25,-631,109 of the salary budget comes from the state budget. Fees, grants and earnings are expected to produce $9,139,879 during the next fiscal year.
KU HAS a total of 2,463 members on the teaching, administrative, maintenance and research staffs. This year $22,094,647 went for their salaries, or 72.9 per cent of the total budget of $30,318,319.
This payroll total does not include 2,463 students employed by the University on an hourly basis, or the persons employed by the Athletic Association.
KU's 12 administrators are paid an average of $22,037. This includes the chancellor, who makes $29,833. He also has use of the tax-free chancellor's residence and a car. The three vice chancellors, the provost, associate dean of faculties, director of admissions, administrative assistant to the chancellor, director of libraries, director of student health services, the dean of men and the dean of women are the others included in this average.
In all the schools in the Big Eight Conference, Iowa State ranked highest in all categories last year. The average salaries were $14,409 for professors, $11,-709 for associate professors, and $9,754 for assistant professors. Colorado ranked second for professors with $14,348. Missouri ranked second for associate professors, $11,179, and assistant professors, $9,632.
Program is off
The program to be presented by the Brenton Hall Drama Group tonight at 8:20 p.m. at the University Theatre has been canceled.
'It always aborts!'
Bv KIT GUNN
KU holds apprentice program
"Finally, you run your program through the compiler to see why it aborts. It always aborts."
The computer programs of Attica freshman John Robinson have been aborting less and less, though. Robinson is studying Fortran IV programming as one of 18 undergraduate research participants in KU's research apprentice program.
A computer program aborts—rejected by the computer—when it contains errors, according to Robinson. Since programs may be hundreds of lines long, almost all of them contain a few typographical errors or misspellings. As a result, not many programs go through KU's GE computer the first time.
"It's just an orderly computer way of stating normal mathematical processes," he said. "People really think more systematically than they are aware of. It's not much of a jump to programming."
Nevertheless, Robinson stressed that Fortran programming was not that difficult.
Robinson explained that the heart (known as the "hardware") of the GE 625 has been pre-programmed by engineers
called systems programmers. Regular programmers don't alter these basic programs, but instead, through the various computer languages, tell an intermediate system known as the "compiler" what to do.
The compiler then changes the punchedcard messages of the programmer into electrical impulses the hardware can work with.
The relative complexity of programming comes about because compilers can only understand certain specialized mathematical languages, Robinson said. In the United States computers understand Fortran, a scientific language, and Cobol, a business-oriented language. Other more specialized systems also exist.
A program is written by "figuring out how you'd work the program and expressing it so the computer can understand." The computer will point out where the errors are in the program.
"It'll try to figure out what you're talking about," said Robinson, "but it won't go through until all the errors have been eliminated."
During the first half of the summer, Robinson was in an accelerated section of the regular computation center non-credit
short-course in programming. Now he is writing programs for various research projects.
Robinson came to the research apprentice program from Attica High School, where he graduated this June first in his class of 24.
Like all other apprentices, he spent last summer here at KU with 102 other seniors-to-be in the National Science Foundation-sponsored Science and Mathematics Camp, a six-week session affiliated with the Music and Art Camp. The apprentice program, although this year supported by KU instead of the NSF, is essentially a second year of science camp. Instead of taking class, participants assist faculty members and graduate students in various research projects. Apprentices were admitted on their performance last summer.
Both the first-year camp and the apprentice program are directed by Delbert Shankel, assisted by William Balfour.
Research apprentices are working this summer in physics, microbiology, radiation biophysics, chemistry, sociology, biochemistry, zoology and computer mathematics.