University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 3, 1989
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Giuliana Nakashima/Special to the KANSAN
KU students and the New York City Opera National Company build the set for "La Traviata" in Hoch Auditorium. The opera was presented last night by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Concert Series. See related review page 11.
Washburn admission reviewed Passage of bill would fulfill Hayden's promises
by John M. Milburn
Kenan staff writer
TOPEKA — A bill that would complete a campaign promise by Gov. Mike Hayden and also provide financing of Kansas community colleges was reviewed yesterday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Kansan staff writer
Legislative staff members outlined the bill that would make Washburn University of Topeka a member of the Board of Regents, a promise Hayden made when he ran for office in 1986.
If approved by the Legislature, the process of phasing Washburn into the Regents system would begin July 1. All property, buildings and revenues would be transferred to the Regents and the state
Washburn is the only municipal university left in the nation. Wichita State University was a municipal university until 1964, when it became part of the Reegens system.
The bill would provide for a board of trustees appointed by the governor to support the educational undertakings of the university. The trustees would have the authority to use proceeds from the tax levy in Topeka for the purpose of capital improvements and scholarships.
Denise Apt, Hayden's education adviser, said the governor considered admittance of Washburn into the Regents system a key to higher education in the state.
"Washburn has a great many attributes that can enhance the Regents system". Apt said.
in his State of the State address, Hayden outlined seven components of the Margin of Excellence Partnership Act, including the addition of Washburn to the Regens system and additional state
financing of community colleges during a five-year period.
No time for Margin
The committee was scheduled yesterday to discuss financing for the second year of the Margin but ran out of time.
State Sen. August Bogina Jr., R-Kansas City and chairman of the committee, said the committee would take up Margin action today along with the Washburn proposal.
The committee will review the appropriation as a whole before taking a vote to send the bill to the Senate.
Recommendations for fiscal year 1990 by the subcommittee for KU include:
- adding 20 full-time equivalent positions for research activities to be financed by restricted fee
- authorizing demolition of nine buildings on KU's West Campus to make room for the Lied Performing Arts Center. Seven of the nine buildings on West Campus are used for storage, one houses the KANU radio transmitter and one is a thermodynamics lab.
- The $13-million project will be financed by private funds. Occupants will be relocated in existing buildings or new structures on Kansas University Endowment property. (For the renovation)
- deleting $350,000 from the budget for the renovation of Fowler Shops and Broadcasting Hall. pending further review by the Joint Committee on State Building Construction.
- **adding $1,022,933 to the University of Kansas Medical Center budget for a salary increase for nurses, medical technologists and other positions. The increase is an effort to make positions at the Med Center competitive with other health-care centers in the Kansas City area.**
- reducing by $33,240 the expenditure limitation in 1990 for the Medical Scholarship Repayment Fund because of the reduced number of scholarships taken in 1989. The recommendation would permit 50 new scholarships in 1990. Twenty-two scholarships were awarded in 1989.
■ deleting Hayden's recommendation for 888,888 in salaries and wages for 19 new clinical faculty positions at the Med Center. The reduction anticipates a delay in recruitment of the positions.
The subcommittee also recommended changes in financing of the KU Med Center for the remainder of fiscal year 1989. Those changes include:
■ deleting $577,791 in operating funds for the expanded organ transplant program. The subcommittee also was recommended to delete $181,418 in clinical faculty salaries approved in 1988 because of possible delays in recruitment for the program.
School of Business has a hard time filling difficult associate dean post
**adding $66,723 for utilities for the new Animal Care Research Support Facility. The subcommittee also recommended the addition of 3.9 full-time equivalent positions.**
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
The School of Business has not found a new associate dean for academic affairs, even after two months of searching.
But John Tollefon, dean of business, expected this problem and on Feb. 10 appointed two faculty members as acting associate deans for academic affairs. William Beedles, professor of business, and Parker Lingess, Pinet Distinguished Professor of Business, will serve until June 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
Tellefson said he didn't know what would happen if the position was not filled.
The futile search began Dec. 1, and the deadline for nominations was Jan. 4. Many people who were nominated for the job had qualifications that pleased the school, Tullofson said.
Tolletton said the search would now be re-opened to include candidates from outside the school.
"Of course, no one applied for the job," he said. "I was like the receiving arms to put their names on the list."
The position is hard to fill because its requirements are considered tough, he said. Dave Shulenburger left the position Jan. 1 to become associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
.ademie affairs.
Because the position has been hard to fill, Tolleson
said, some of the tasks traditionally done by the associate dean would be divided among other staff members. Duties range from handling student academic complaints to budgeting.
"Habitually, faculty and staff and a considerable number of students have gone to the associate dean for academic affairs for everything," he said.
Beedles' duties as acting associate dean include planning and budgeting for the 1989 summer session and budgeting of Kansas University Endowment Association funds.
Lessig's duties include fiscal year 1990 academic affairs budgeting and academic programming, which includes recruitment of faculty.
intern, Jessig said he had been the school's associate dean for academic affairs before Shulenburger assumed the role in December 1986, so he knew the job had a lot of different duties.
The associate dean usually receives a reduction in his teaching load and doesn't do as much research as other staff members, Lessig said.
"That is the primary reason why Beedles and I decided to divide the duties," he said. "We're in the middle of a semester and both have a lot going that it's hard to pull back from."
SenEx promotes public reviews of deans
Kansan staff writer
by Thom Clark
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday forwarded a recommendation to Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, that would make reviews of deans public.
"This streamlines the process and sets forth guidelines on how the deans should be evaluated," said Jane Hutchinson, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman and SenEx member.
SenEx said the review should consist of a small committee, occupy a short time frame and focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the review.
the review process and could take up to five years before a review was made.
reviewer. Hutchinson said that in the past, individual departments conducted
make "All this does is establish content and criteria for the process." Hutchinson said. She said the actual process would still be executed by the departments.
SenEx pointed out that the report should conform to the 1974 American Association of University Professors' "Statement On Faculty Participation in the Selection and Retention of Administrators."
Bob Jerry, SenEx chairman, said the findings of the review committee would be released to involved parties.
Administration The AMP is a professional organization that makes statements on issues involving University governance, Jerry said
alice. Jerry said.
The clause calls for the appointed administrator of the review to make the review public, except for sections that the review committee agrees to be confidential.
The group amended the recommendation to specify that course requirements be conveyed in the form of a written handout and distributed within the first two weeks of the semester.
SenEx also endorsed an amendment calling for faculty to provide a written syllabus for all students.
"It is the responsibility of the instructor to provide a written syllabus explaining grading procedures and the course administration," said Ray Moore, associate professor of civil engineering.
Publisher of new paper faces low demand, other problems
by Michele Logan
Kansan staff writer
Despite not having a permanent place for distribution on campus, the Lawrence Observer made its debut at KU yesterday.
The Observer, a tabloid edited and published by Janet Majure, Lawrence resident and KU graduate, is a weekly paper aimed at the University of Kansas campus and the Lawrence community.
The paper, which covers local government, University subjects and entertainment, was distributed by hand at Wescoe and Fraser halls, the Kansas and Burge unions and Robinson Centrals.
Brenda Lambert. Overland Park sophomore, said she liked the alternative view.
"With both the Kansan and the Observer on campus, students will get a broader coverage of events," she said.
However, Tony Minor, Leawood junior, said, "Most of the articles were old news and they'd been covered already."
Before the ribbon cutting ceremony, Janet Majure, editor and publisher of the Lawrence Observer, points out her co-workers while her father, Dave Majure, and Bernard Judge, Chamber of Commerce committee envoy, look on.
Leslie Assaf, Shawnee senior,
said, "The only thing that interested me was the campus calendar; the rest wasn't very excited."
The Observer will continue to be distributed by hand until Majure receives permission to install cameras and to give way to distribute papers on campus.
Majure said she wanted to make the paper available inside campus buildings and to install distribution boxes on campus, much like the ones the Kansan used. She has not yet received permission from facilities planning and University administration to do so.
"I was told by someone at KU that I couldn't use the boxes next to the Kansan ones because
they're used for distribution of materials by student groups." Majure said. "I even offered to pay for them, but I was still tol
Another problem, she said, is that campus policy is geared toward newspaper vending machines.
"I don't want pay for machines because the Observer is supposed to be distributed free on campus," she said.
Off campus, the paper costs 35 cents and can be found at convenience stores with inside distribution racks, such as local Kwik Shops, Town and Country and The Town Crier.
"Dealing with this distribution thing has been the biggest headache of all." Majure said.
Brigit Foster, manager of The
Town Crier, said the bookstore had ordered several bundles of the newspaper but that demand had been slow.
In snow.
Majure said that she had printed 7,000 copies of the Observer and that 60 copies were being delivered to subscribers. Subscriptions cost $16 a year.
$16 a year.
She said the number of subscribers was low because she had not been pushing the matter.
pushing the idea that "I've been to some meetings, had spots on KLWN, sent out press releases and flyers, but that must not have been enough." Majure said.
But it was enough to attract the attention of Tim Miller, former editor and publisher of the Plumber's Friend, who ceased his publication and began writing a column for the Observer.
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