CLOUDY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No.136
Newell wins three; misses award
Monday, April 23, 1979
See story page six
Lawrence, Kansas
Wet weather at the beginning of the Kansas Relays Friday forced the timers, left, to cover their stopwatches with plastic to keep them from malfunctioning. Above, KU won the 880 and mile relays. Below, Tommy "Tuna" McCall, Deon Hogan, Stan Whitaker and Lester Mickens relaxes after winning in a time of 3:07:56. Right, Dick Burke buries hurdles running in the Glenn Cunningham mile run. Buerkle, who placed fourth, is a former indoor world record holder in the mile. He lost the Cunningham mile to Nail Tunness, who won it at 4:01:19.
Staff Photos by Randy Olson and Bill Frakes
Banks continues push to reopen athletic position
Elizabeth Banks, who filed the complaint, said yesterday that she would continue with the investigation.
Proceedings will continue on a formal complaint requesting that an assistant men's athletic director position be added to the staff. The new assistant doctor has been hired.
Banks said women might have been discouraged from applying for the position because the job description did not state that the assistant director would work with women's athletics after a merger of KU's athletic departments.
Banks, a member of the women's athletic advisory board, filed a complaint on April 13 with KU's office of affirmative action. She requested that a hold be placed on the job search and that the position be advertised again.
She also said the description did not require familiarity with the Association of intercollegiate Athletics for Women, although it did require familiarity with regulations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
BUT BOB Marcum, director of men's athletics, announced Friday that the position had been filled. Phyllis Howlett, an assistant coach at Duke University, was appointed to the posit
"I'm satisfied that we have followed affirmative action guidelines." Marconi said.
informative action guidelines, Marcium said. But Banks said she thought there were problems with the affirmative action grievance procedures.
"There are two flaws in affirmative action here at KU," Banks said. "One is that even though the affirmative action office is supposed to monitor the University, the final authority is with the University administration. Shankel said it was too late to a freeze on the job search, so what authority does affirmative action really have?"
Del Shakur, executive vice chancellor,
last week that the job search was "too far"
away.
Banks said the other problem with affirmative action was that the University general counsel's office represented the defendant, when it was a University department, and also monitored the formal hearings.
Boiler designer expects funding
"We're just going through the motions," Banks said. "Marcum will get what he needs."
Staff Renarter
By TONI WOOD
The designer of a proposed wood-burning炉 for the University of Kansas is optimistic that the Legislature will approve it.
"My own feeling is that if the Legislature is going to do anything about the energy situation, it'll have to do something like this," William Smith, designer of the boiler and professor of electrical engineering, said yesterday.
The study of the boiler, which may cause KU's dependence on natural gas, was approved Friday by the Kansas Board.
The study was among seven recommendations made by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and the Releges.
The Regents also approved a change of strategy in its attempts to persuade Gov. Carlin and the Legislature to use the new strategy.
Franklin and associates, a consulting firm in Overland Park, PA; Frank Lowman, chairman of the Regents, said the cost of the study would not exceed $30.000. The same firm also is conducting a study of a proposed solid-waste-fueled steam plant of 245,000 square feet.
Present energy needs at KU are met by a plant that uses natural gas. The University has an interruptible contract with the Kansas Public Service Gas Company that allows KU's gas supply to be cut off when local demand is high.
This winter, KU's gas supply was cut for a record 58 days. The University had to use its own reserve of fuel oil, which is stored on campus and is twice as expensive as natural gas.
Smith said the initial cost of the boiler would be about $2 million. Three or four people would be needed to operate it, he said.
THE TOTAL COST would be cheap, Smith said, compared with the cost of the plastic wasd waste plant, which produces 105 pounds of CO2 per gallon.
Smith said the study would determine how much wood the plant would use. He said that within a 40-mile radius of Lawrence, the refuse wood supply from saw mills and lumber yards would be about 15,000 acres in an 140-mile range, there would be about 40,000 tons of wood.
KU possibly could grow its own wood on land owned by the city or the Army Corps of Engineers, he said.
The study of the boiler, which will determine how much wood is needed to fuel the boiler, is expected to be finished.
The board's decision concerning formula funding was prompted by its failure to persuade the governor and the Legislature during the last session to use this process in determining budgets for universities in Kansas.
CARLIN DECIDED to use formula funding only as a "marmark" in deciding state funding for higher education.
The board decided to change the length of time it is requesting for implementing formula funding from three
Formula funding compares the universities with peer institutions in the nation.
During the past session, the Regents asked the Legislature to allow Kansas institutions to "catch up" with other
universities in the next three years, but the Legislature denied the request.
Under the Regents plan, KU's current budget would have been compared with the average of current budgets of its peer institutions. Then, over a three-year period, the Regents would have allocated money to allow KU's budget to rise to the level of its peers. Fifty percent of the difference in KU's budget for each year, and 50 percent in each of the two remaining years.
Because this request was denied, the board approved a change that would call for a total "catch up" over the next five years. Twenty percent of the total increase would be granted each year.
Lowman said the change to five years would be easier to pass and formula funding might be more readily accepted.
In other action, the Regents approved final plans for a 751-vehicle parking garage at the University of Kansas.
THIS PROMOTION automatically grants them tenure, meaning that a faculty member's appointment is permanent except in cases of "malfaiseance, moral terpitude or financial exigence."
Dykes' recommendations for promotions were also approved. Twenty-seven members of the faculty were appointed.
Thirty-one faculty members were promoted to full professorships. All recommendations for sabbatical leaves, nine emeritus appointments and one extended leave without pay were approved.
Sex bias charged in two profs' suit
Two KU professors are charging that the University of Kansas discriminated against them because they were women. They are asking for an unspecified amount of money and an injunction from U.S. District Court in Topeka.
The professors, Ann Willner, professor of political science, and Myr Haiman, associate professor of English, contend that because of their sex, they have been discriminated against in salaries, the salaries of loads and mert salary evaluations at KU.
Hirnand said that in May 1978 she filed a case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that charged her with misconduct, and commission investigated the case and sent it to the civil rights department of the Department of Justice, which also
The Justice Department sent her a letter saying there was probable cause, or reasonable grounds for warranting further investigation.
"I THINK my charges are true."
Hunman said yesterday, "EEOC and the U.S. Department of Justice have confirmed that there is probable cause."
Human alleges in the suit that since 1963 she has "received salary increases declining gradually, resulting in a salary increase from $400 to similarly situated men employees."
The suit also alleges that her merit salary evaluation "has been unreasonably low in comparison to similarly situated males."
"I've taught here 18 years," Himman said. "I would like to feel that the University, to which I've given a major part of my life, would appreciate and nurture me. It hurts me deeply to do this."
Wilmer alleges in the suit that her annual salary review "has in every instance yielded an unreasonably low raise." When she was promoted to full professor, the suit alleges, "she was given a raise that was substantially higher than given to all male members of the faculty when they have been promoted."
Calgaard pleased with off-campus program growth
By BILL RIGGINS
Staff Reporter
Expansion of off-campus programs and improvement of the library system were his administration's goals, Ron Calgaard, reflecting on his experience as vice chancellor for academic affairs, said recently.
Calgaard, who has accepted the position of president at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, will be leaving the University of Kansas after his successor. His successor, as yet unchosen, will begin July 1.
Calgaard said he was pleased with the growth of the off-campus program and said it would become in his opinion an essential part of his career.
"It off-campus programs were not in existence, our enrollment would be down." Calgaard said. "All of the growth in the University in the last three years has been offcampus."
CALGARA SAID most of the programs offered in Wichita, Kansas City, Kan., Topeka and Leavenworth were professionally oriented undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts. He said
almost 10 percent of KU's enrollment was in off- campus programs.
"I have no doubt that off-campus programs will be a significant factor in stabilizing enrollment in the university."
Improving the library system was one of Calaisard's immediate priorities when he took office.
"Now we're beginning to look to the time when there will be some improvement in the physical space of the library with the renovation of Watson and we are building a new campus. We have years of additional library facilities on this campus."
He said, "The library had some very serious problems in terms of the kind of space it had, the adequacy of funding, the acquisition budget, staff and material.
CALGARD CAME to KU in 1963 as an assistant professor of economics. He was promoted to associate professor in 1967 and to full professor in 1972. As an associate professor, he was appointed head of the Philosophical Arts and Sciences and director of Oliver College, a school within the liberal arts program, in 1970.
Caligaard said his transition from faculty member to administrator had occurred "totally by accident."
"I had never considered an administrative career in higher education," he said. "I enjoyed being a teacher."
But George Waggoner, former dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a friend of Calgaird, asked him whether he would like to work in the College office for a year or two.
"I thought about a bit it and decided I like to try it with the expectation that, after a couple of years, I would decide whether administration was something new. I'd return to full-time work in the department," he said.
CALGAARD SAID one reason he had decided to serve as vice掌剑者 that was he liked the basic character.
"Professional programs are rooted in a strong, basic, disciplined approach in the arts and sciences," he said. "I see some healthy signs that enrollment in these programs of science has remained stable or shown some growth."
"Professional schools are more interested in students who have acquired strengths in the basic
Calgary said he had been fortunate to be in charge of academic affairs at a time when the University's
disciplines. At the University of Kansas, I've never seen an inherent conflict between the growth of enrollment in professional schools and diminishing importance to basic art and science disciplines."
AS A RESULT of projected enrollment decline, he said, his successor might face more difficult
"We had some good opportunities because of enrollment growth," he said. "We had some ad-
"In the future the problems will be the same. The style of administration will vary from one person to another. But I think problems that will be encountered the next three or four years, in some ways, be more difficult than they have been in the last three or four years."
Calgaird said it was important that a more adequate form of funding for KU be found in the
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