Nichols explains budget proposal
By MARTHA
MANGELSDORF
Kansan Staff Writer
Raymond Nichols, vice-chancellor for finance, expressed little concern yesterday over possible passage of KU's $27,232,560 operating budget request in the Kansas Legislature.
Gov. Robert Docking recommended a $143,418,176 educational and general operating budget Feb. 4 for all state schools under the Kansas Board of Regents for the 1970 fiscal year.
Kansas University's educational and general operation budget will rise nearly 10 per cent if Docking's recommendations are approved by the Kansas Legislature.
The governor's recommended figure is 2.2 per cent less than the $27,232,560 operating budget sought for KU by the Regents.
In specific items regarding KU, Docking approved:
- $175,000 for remodeling, repairs and maintenance. Nichols explained this was spent on projects such as the remodeling
of offices in the basement of Strong Hall for the new computer science center.
- $134,000 for physical plant operations. Nichols said $80,000 of this was allotted for utilities in new buildings to be open next year.
- $200,000 to improve the campus electrical system.
- $19,000 to install street lighting along Naismith Drive.
- $50,000 specifically to upgrade the electrical system in Malott. Nichols said the installation of any additional technical machinery important to teaching and research is an impossibility.
Docking recommended a 6 per cent salary increase to be awarded on a merit basis to KU faculty. "This means KU can hold its relative position as a class B university by the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) salary scale standards," Nichols remarked.
The governor also recommended an increase of 27 faculty members based on the 375 enrollment increase projected for KU next fall.
Docking did not approve the Regent's request for $200,000 to remodel Fowler shops.
Israeli consul fears annihilation by Arabs
"The Arabs will accept nothing but the complete annihilation of Israel," said Yitzhak Lear, Israeli consul in Chicago, to an overflowing Kansas Union Forum Room the SUA Minority Opinions Forum last night.
His topic was "A Justification of the Israeli Position in the Middle East."
"The Arabs say the very existence of Israel is aggression," stated Lear. "The danger of annihilation is always imminent."
He said the complete destruction of Israel has been the Arab's goal since the 1947 UN resolution dividing Palestine between Israel and the Arab nation. He explained a home was promised on both sides of the Jordan River, but the resolution divided even the western side into two parts.
"The day after the resolution 13 Arab states attacked," Lear said. "There has been killing on both sides. We don't claim to be
angels. We didn't want to fight but we were forced to."
He said evidence was found stating Arab soldiers were to destroy the villages and kill all of the inhabitants during the Arab-Israeli wars. Nasser said before the Six Days War, Lear claimed, it would be a "momentus war of extermination."
"We want to sit down and discuss peace," Lear said. "Maybe a solution will come in the next generation with better understanding, but the Arabs will have to recognize Israel before we will have peace."
A candlelight memorial walk from the Chi Omega fountain to the Union preceded the lecture. Approximately 20 people participated in the march, initiated by the KU Hillel, Jewish student organization. The march was an expression of sympathy for the hanging of 13 Iraqi citizens, nine of them Jews, convicted of espionage.
Nixon will visit Berlin
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allied powers saying tney did not respect the right of East Germany to restrict land access to West Berlin.
The joint statement was issued by the United States, Britain and France, who control the western sector of Berlin. The powers said there was "no justification" for the blockade.
Members of the college declared they would defy the Communists and meet in West Berlin March 5 to elect a successor to President Heinrich Luebke as planned. They said they would fly in.
The blockade, effective Saturday, forbids the 1,038 members of the West German electoral college and their aides from using roads, rails or canals into the city "until further notice."
Despite Communist objections that West Berlin is
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Black Week celebrated at K-State
not part of West Germany, the college has met in West Berlin to elect the president every five years since 1954.
A number of events have been planned to produce an awareness of black culture and customs needed to understand and rectify problems that are arising today.
This week is Black Awareness Week at K-State.
A fashion show of African style clothing, a talent show to be presented by the black students on campus entitled "History of the Black Man in Song," and a "Soul Test" to be printed in the campus newspaper are a few of the events planned. A "fireside chat" with prominent Negroes including Eldridge Cleaver, in which records will be played, also is planned.
Docking also turned down the Regent's $40,000 request for establishing an Upward Bound Program at KU. The national program is designed to bring dis a d v a n t a g e d and under-achieving high school students to a university summer program.
Despite the 10.2 per cent increase in general use funds
recommended by Docking, the figures are still 2.2 per cent less than those requested by the KU Regents.
This 2 per cent cut includes the difference between the Regents requested 7.5 per cent faculty salary increase and Docking's 6 per cent recommendation, explained Nichols.
"This budget will enable the University to maintain faculty salary positions and the present general operating level despite the impacts of inflation," Nichols said.
The KU Board of Regents will have their hearing before the Kansas Legislature Ways and Means Committee, Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Where does an engineer intern?
Before you decide on the job that's to start you on your professional career, it's good to ask a few point blank questions . . . like:
- Will this job let me rub shoulders with engineers doing things that haven't been done before, in all phases of engineering?
- Will I be working for an engineering oriented management whose only standard is excellence?
- Will I have access to experts in fields other than my own to help me solve problems and stimulate professional growth?
- Will I be working with the widest range of professional competence and technological facilities in the U. S.?
- Are engineering careers with this company stable . . . or do they depend upon proposals and market fluctuations?
Why not ask these questions about Bendix Kansas City when Mr. R. E. Cox visits the
University of Kansas Feb.19,20,1969
Or you may write Mr. Cox at:
Box 303-AF, Kansas City, Mo. 64131
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