Regents Back Raises for Faculty
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A "holdthe-line" order on new state college programs will not keep the Board of Regent's budget requests from going up next year.
The regents—who only last week lopped $2.6 million off budget requests of the eight state educational institutions—Wednesday announced that the budget it has put together for presentation to the 1964 legislature will be up $4 million from the one approved by the 1963 legislature.
THE REGENTS last week not only cut regular requests by $2.6 million, but also eliminated all requests for new programs and drastically reduced capital improvements requests.
The total budget it will submit to the legislature will be $44,466,775.
representing just over half of the schools' budgets. The remainder will be financed by student fees, gifts, grants, and other sources.
The budget request covers the University of Kansas, the KU Medical Center, Kansas State University, Kansas State Teachers of Emporia, Fort Hays State, Kansas State of Pittsburg, State School for the Deaf, and State School for the Blind.
IN ADDITION, there will be an item of $325,000 to establish a prison hospital facility at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
A budget for Wichita State University, which comes under control of the regents July 1, 1964, will be submitted later. That school has until Sept. 15 to present its budget requests.
Schools presently in the state system project an enrollment increase of 3.148 students, a 9 per cent for the academic year of 1964-65. Funds to cover the added cost of this enrollment increase were included in the requests to the 1964 legislature.
"WE HAVE reached the long-anticipated era of rapidly growing enrollments," regents chairman Clyde Reed of Parsons said.
"College and university enrollments from here on will reflect the high birth rates of the post World War II period in addition to the greater percentage of young people seeking higher education.
"Everyone has known increases in enrollment were on the way. Now they are here. The state must take steps to meet them in the interest of
its own future and that of its young people." Reed added.
THE REGENTS' budget requests include an increase of 7.9 per cent in salary funds for present faculty members, administrators and other non-civil service personnel.
Reed said the regents gave "utmost priority" to an increase of 12 per cent in salaries for full professors and associate professors. Other non-civil service increases were limited to five per cent—on a merit basis.
The chairman said the board believes that the increases for professors would strengthen the state schools by permitting them to hold their own in growing faculty competition.
THE PROPOSED budget calls for addition of 123 new faculty members
at the colleges, distributed on a basis of one new faculty member for each 25 additional students. The Board's formula in recent years has been one to 20, but it was raised this year to one to 25 to keep fund increases at a minimum.
General Fund requests to the 1964 legislature for fiscal 1965 will be as follows for the various schools;
KU Medical Center-$62 million
KU Medical Center—$6.2 million University of Kansas — $13.06 million
Kansas State Teachers of Emporia —$4 million
Kansas State University—$13.1 million
Kansas State of Pittsburg—$3.6 million
Fort Hays State-$2.5 million
School for Deaf-$713,194
School for Blind-$387,289.
Summer Session Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 6
High School Teachers Attend KU Workshops
By Kathy Vaughan
Three teacher workshops will attract 187 instructors to KU at various times during the summer.
Outstanding high school English teachers from the state are participating in the English institute or workshop designed to give the teacher a better program for teaching college preparatory students.
Friday, June 28, 1963
Fireworks Display Band Concert, July 4
THE 19 TEACHERS, selected from over 100 applicants, study the full eight weeks of the regular summer session.
TWO OFFICERS of the Kansas Association of English Teachers are attending. They are Evelyn Thompson, president of the association and chairman of the English department at Wichita West High School, and Betty Baskett, treasurer of the association and chairman of the English department at Highland Park High School, Topeka.
For $2.5, a person will be able to hear a free band concert and see a $1,700 display of fireworks on the evening of the Fourth of July at Memorial Stadium.
Classes for elementary education teachers were held June 4 to 15 featuring guest speakers such as George Swengros, director for President Kennedy's physical fitness program. Other speakers were Robert Bills, assistant dean of research at the University of Alabama, and Wallace Verburg, education director of the Kansas City, Mo. school district.
This is the first time KU has offered this program. It was started last year by the Commissions on English of the College Entrance Examination Board.
The 150 teachers from Kansas attended two general sessions and two workshop sessions each day. Leon Capps was in charge of the workshop.
THE PROGRAM, which counted as two hours of credit was open to graduates or undergraduates.
The band concert, presented by Local 512 of the American Federation of Musicians, will begin at 7:30 p.m. The fireworks display will begin at 8:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Practice in applying new ideas begins July 2 when the teachers will divide into groups of four to present topics related to the courses. This phase of the workshop will be conducted by Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education.
Conducting the different fields of elementary teaching were Jolie L. Stapelton, professor of physical education; Elbert D. Overholt, instructor of education, and Vernon E. Troxel,
The purpose of the courses is to provide the teachers with graduate study in these areas and to apply the techniques to their teaching.
Eight hours of credit from the program may be used toward a Master of Arts degree with a major in English or a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Science degree in English education.
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COURSES STUDIED are literature, taught by David Dykstra, director of the English institute; writing, under Gerhardt Zuther, assistant professor of English; and language, conducted by George F. Wedge, instructor of English.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT—Guest conductor Gene Kenny directs a practice session of singers in preparation for a concert Sunday at 3:00 p.m. at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The 225-250 members of the chorus are attending the 26th Annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Kenny, who is choral director at Texas Tech College, Lubbock, Tex., is one of seven guest conductors who will work with choral groups and the band and orchestra this summer. He has been here since Monday morning and will leave following the concert Sunday.
'Doubting Thomas Called Unknowing
Those who know dig fallout shelters
That is the word delivered Tuesday by Walter F. Lineberger, assistant deputy secretary of defense, when he spoke to more than 100 business leaders gathered at the Kansas Union for the one-day Governor's Conference on Industrial Survival.
LINEBERGER said that all persons with access to all pertinent information—including classified documents, are convinced that a system of community fallout shelters would be worthwhile and effective in the event of a nuclear attack.
Among those who Lineberger said have access to all information, and agree on the efficacy of such a system, are President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense McNamara, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Lineberger was here to boost a Defense Department proposal which would, over a period of five years, spend $3 billion to provide shelter space for 240 million. Congress this week has held hearings on the efficacy of a nation-wide system of fallout shelters.
A PHYSICIAN testifying Tuesday likened fallout shelters to "wearing a piece of garlic around the neck to prevent diphtheria."
Lineberger attributes the judgment of such opponents to a lack of pertinent information. He called their efforts. "fantastic."
"They are good people, with fine motives and I do not doubt their patriotism. But the effect of their efforts is to detract from the credibility of this nation's ability to survive a possible nuclear attack.
"THE FALLOUT shelter program we have proposed has been arrived at with great care and after careful study."
He said that the program is based on the desire to give the greatest protection possible for the money spent. For that reason, he said, a system of blast shelters at an estimated cost of $20 billion was ruled out.
Lineberger said that life after a nuclear attack would be possible, contrary to opinions forwarded by several opponents of shelter systems. But for this recovery to be possible, the proposed system of fallout shelters is needed, Lineberger said.
"SOCIETY can be preserved," he said, "and it need not be a 'muscle' society." He said that many persons would survive the immediate effects of a nuclear attack, but without fall-out shelters, they would perish.
If the proposed program is adopted, the basis for recovery from a possible nuclear attack would be preserved, he said. He was optimistic
that Congress would approve the plan.
"It will be quite a while before Russia can deliver vast quantities of nuclear weapons," he said.
"THESE STILL is time to organize an effective system of fallout shelters," he said. When completed, he said, there is little danger that it ever will become obsolete, despite talk of future, so-called "Doom's Day" weapons.
The shifting of Civilian Defense from a separate authority to the supervision of the Defense Department should not be interpreted as a deemphasis of efforts in that field, he said.
He likened a system of fallout shelters to the system of stockades used by settlers during Indian attacks. Fallout shelters, he said, are the modern way to "keep your powder dry."
"We doubt that it (nuclear attack) will come," he said, "but it is just common sense to prepare."
Play Series Opens July 1
A theatrical "triple-header" will be presented by the University of Kansas Theatre on July 1, 2, 3, and 5. The three one-act plays are all of the Absurdist school of drama. They are "The Bald Soprano" by Eugene Ionesco; "Zoo Story" by Edward Albee, and "The Room" by Harold Pinter.
Under the direction of advanced graduate students in the University Theatre, the three Absurdist plays are the second of four productions this summer. "Separate Tables" will be presented July 15-20, and "Romeo and Juliet" July 25 and 26.
DIRECTORS AND CASTS for the three Absurd show are;
"The Bald Soprano," Burton E. Meisel, Lawrence graduate, director; Joan Felt, Kansas City junior; John Hazleton, Lawrence freshman; Donald Brinkman, Lawrence senior; Diane Gray, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Ad Eley, Colby graduate student; and Bridget O'Leary, Baxter Springs sophomore.
"The Zoo Story." directed by Llewellyn D. Rabby, Lawrence graduate, has only two cast members: Bob Rumpf, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, and Richard Friesen, Prairie Village junior.
JAMES HAWES, Lawrence graduate student, directs "The Room." "An Evening of Absurd Plays" will be presented in the main theatre, arena-style.