'Cutbacks may be unavoidable'
Budget looks grim
The University of Kansas is anticipating "an austerity year" for 1970, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said.
University officials met last week with the Kansas Joint Ways and Means Committee to discuss new university budget proposals. The proposals made by the Board of Regents were cut in appropriations, resulting in the favorable support of Governor Robert Docking.
KU presently works within a total budget of $48,735,681. The recommended governor's budget is $52,656,881.
"The governor's budget is reasonably good, but it does not provide for much needed faculty and operational improvements," said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor. "It just offsets inflation."
Offsetting inflation is a major problem for KU in the coming year. It has hit the university hardest in the area of construction, said Francis H. Heller, dean of faculties and acting provost.
The current proposal does not provide any new buildings, or the requested remodelling of Strong Hall, Green Hall, Flint Hall, Fowler and the mechanical engineering lab.
Docking's recommendations include an average 6 per cent increase over last year's salaries for faculty members. This is an area of major concern with the Board of Regents. The national increase for the 1969 fiscal year was 7.2 per cent. The President's Council recommended 20 per cent to the Board of Regents as necessary to close the competitive gap which has widened in recent years. The national increase has averaged 6.43 per cent for the 10-year period ending with the fiscal year 1969. The increase granted by Kansas legislators for the same period has averaged 5.42 per cent.
Nichols said proposals do fall short of expectations. Cutbacks, therefore, may be unavoidable, he said.
Recruiting begins for Peace Corps
Nichols has no speculations
The University of Kansas ranks first among 24 Kansas schools used as recruiting stations for the Peace Corps, said Cathy Dancy, member of the Peace Corps Western Regional Office of Public Affairs.
Miss Dancy is at KU to organize the annual Peace Corps recruiting and information week. The project is scheduled for Feb. 9-14, and will consist of class room lectures, an information booth at the Kansas Union, afternoon coffee hours and a panel discussion, Miss Dancy said.
Mario Karr, KU Peace Corps representative, said the panel discussion will be on the topic, "Is the Peace Corps Relevant?" The members of the panel will be KU students, professors and Lawrence residents. Karr said the discussion will be held at 4 p.m. Feb. 11 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The purpose of the Peace Corps week, Miss Dancy said, is not only to recruit members for the Peace Corps, but also to inform the public of what the Peace Corps is and what it does.
Many people who are interested in joining the Peace Corps do not realize what the goals of working in the Peace Corps are, Miss Dancy said.
"We do not want Peace Corps members to go to a country and do a specific job for two years,"
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she said. "We want them to teach the people there how to do their job so that when the Peace Corps leaves, the job will continue to get done."
Miss Dancy said she had great hopes for the success of the Peace Corps week at the University of Kansas. The students and faculty of KU have always been very receptive to learning about the Peace Corps and working with it, she said.
where the cutbacks will center. Funds are still needed for overtime services. No appropriations were allotted for the year 1970-71, although in 1969 over $13,000 was spent in this area. There is also no allotment for disability and life insurance for faculty members. The regents requested over $119,000. There is no allotment in the governor's proposed budget.
Order improving after Biafran war
LAGOS, Nigeria (UPI)—Maintenance of law and order are improving daily in the former secessionist region area of Biafra, a United Nations observer said Wednesday.
Docking's recommendations do provide for the following:
But there was a report of atrocities by federal Nigerian troops.
International sources said a team of representatives from Britain, Canada, Poland and Sweden would investigate a reported massacre of about 70 Ibo tribesmen last Christmas Day by federal troops.
- Appropriations to raise the student labor wages to the minimum federal requirement of $1.60 an hour. As of February 1, 1970, students are paid $1.45 an hour. However, students will not be paid the minimum requirement of $1.60 until February 1, 1971.
● $60,000 for extending water service to west campus and $100,000 for changing the voltage in the electrical system.
The first settlement in California, the Mission of San Diego, was established by Padre Junipero Serra on July 16, 1769.
- Salary increases for classified employees.
- Funds for equalizing the difference between the actual and estimated enrollment at KU. This problem, said Nichols, is not easily handled. The only way to control this is to control the number of out of state applicants.
The only new proposal suggested by KU was a centralized student placement office. Heller called the $24,000 allotment a "modest attempt" at such a program that would provide facilities and coordination in helping students find jobs.
Docking's proposals are presently before the legislature. Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, said the proposed budget should be accepted. There are no alleged cutbacks or changes, he said. A decision is not expected until next week or later.
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