Faculty Forum to hear candidate
The Faculty Forum will meet at noon Thursday in the Westminster Center, 1204 Oread.
The guest speaker will be Michael G. Glover, Lawrence senior. He is running for the Legislature from the 39th district on the Democratic ticket. Glover will speak on his candidacy and the issues on which he will run.
A hot lunch will be served for $1.00 cost. Reservations should be made by noon Wednesday by calling 843-4933.
Scriven to speak on violence
Michael Scriven, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak in a Humanities Series lecture today at 8:00 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union.
Scriven's speech is entitled "Violence."
Scriven has agreed to meet with individual classes and groups to discuss topics of a number of pressing moral and social problems. These topics include abortion, obscenity, addiction, corruption and subversion, perversion and indoctrination.
Summer schedule announced
A preliminary summer session schedule indicates 715 courses in 65 departments at KU in the eight weeks session June 8 to Aug. 1 will be offered
Although a majority of courses are upper-level for graduates, school teachers and veterans, programs will also be available to new high school graduates who want an early start.
Most of the classes and much of the laboratory work will be offered in air-conditioned facilities.
The KU School of Law will offer two 5-week summer terms.
University Extension has scheduled 26 on-campus schools and conferences during the summer. Several will be credit courses.
Nader to lecture on consumer rights
Ralph Nader, researcher and crusader for consumer rights, will speak at the University of Kansas March 9 at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Nader, who will lecture on consumer rights, has done research in areas such as meat-packing practices, automobile safety, televisions and corruption in corporations.
The program is sponsored by Student Union Activities, KU, KU School of Law and the Student Bar Association.
Engineers to meet tonight
The Institute of Electrical and Electron Engineers (I three E) will hold their first multi-group chapter meeting tonight at 8:30 at the Center for Research in Engineering Science Building.
The meeting will cover five fields of engineering. Topics to be discussed include engineering in medicine and biology, man-machine systems, nuclear science, system science and cybernetics, and the science of electronics.
Physics professor to help college
Ralph W. Krone, professor of physics at KU, will be visiting scientist in physics at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, March 9 to March 10. He will lecture, meet with students and assist faculty with curriculum and research problems.
The visit by Krone, an authority on low energy nuclear structure, is part of a program conducted
by the American Institute of Physics, funded by the National Science Foundation.
KU faculty salaries deteriorate as consumer price levels increase
A study by the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors shows that faculty salaries at KU have been deteriorating.
During the academic years 1967-68 and 1968-69, the increase in average salary for the four academic ranks was between 6 and 8 per cent. When allowance was made for the increase in the price level, real salaries generally increased between 2 and 3 per cent per year.
In 1969-70 however, average salaries for all ranks except instructor increased by less than the increase of the price level.
Consequently, according to the report, the average real salary for the three highest academic ranks was lower in September 1969 than it was in September 1968.
The report said the prospects for the next year were not bright. Since September, 1969, consumer prices have been increasing at an annual rate in excess of 6 per cent.
lature, and if the prices continue to rise at their present rate, the average real salary at KU would decline next year. On the average, there would be no merit salary increments.
Governor Robert Docking has recommended a budget for the University that would provide for a 6 per cent increase in faculty salaries. If this recommendation is approved by the Legis-
Among comparable universities, KU ranks in the top five in the production of Woodrow Wilson Fellows and Rhodes Scholars. It ranks among the top 10 on other measures of academic excellence. However, when KU salaries and compensation levels were compared with those of other (AAUP) institutions, KU's ranking declined to 15th.
Bid announced for new hall
2 KANSAN Mar. 3
1970
A bid of $257,589 by Casson Construction Co. of Topeka was the apparent low bid for construction of Irene Nunemaker College building at the University of Kansas.
Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association, announced the bid and said that preparation of contracts was underway.
Bids were received Feb. 26 for construction of the 10,000-square-foot structure, funded by a $350,000 gift from Irene Nunemaker, New York City, to KU's $18.6 million Program for Progress campaign. The gift also includes furnishings and equipment for the building.
The building will be constructed at the southeast corner of 15th and Engle Road. It will provide an administrative center for Irene Nunemaker College, one of KU's Colleges-Within-the-College, divisions of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Many students in Nunemaker College will be housed in nearby Lewis and Templin Halls.
Administrative offices, faculty offices, a student advisory board room, an audio-visual room, a library and an apartment for visiting lecturers will be located on the top level of the two-level building. The lower level will contain a student workroom, lounge, public restrooms, classrooms, seminar rooms and mechanical equipment.
The building is expected to be ready for use by the second semester of the 1970-71 academic year.