Committee OKs 7% faculty raise
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee voted yesterday to recommend a 7 percent pay raise for faculty at Regents' institutions.
The proposed 7 percent pay hike had been requested by Gov. John Carlin in his budget recommendations, but had been cut to 6 percent in the Kansas House. The decision followed weeks of lobbying for the increase by University of Kansas administrators.
"We all tried to talk to the people we knew in Topeka to let them know we were concious."
Del Slinker, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that most KU admin-
istration staff must be able to archi-
c Dykes, much easier than contact
legislators about the faculty pay raise.
But Shankel said the committee decision may have been based on increased estimates of the state's income for next year more than concern for higher education.
But the fight for the 7 percent pay increase is not over yet, according to Senator Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, Senate majority leader.
"THE ESTIMATE THAT state income will be up next year gave them more flexibility," Shankel said. "We made that oint to them."
Gaar said that if the 7 percent increase were approved by the full Senate next week, it would have to go to a conference committee on both houses to iron out the differences.
Gaar said the result probably would be a compromise of a 6.5 percent increase.
KU FACULTY MEMBERS said although they were pleased with the committee decision, they were concerned that the lack of data in inflation, which topped nine percent last year.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of education an chairman of the faculty executive committee, said, "The only regrettable thing is that we didn't provide for it, it still does not cover the risk of plumbing.
Ambrose Saricks, professor of history and president of the Kansas chapter, the University of Kansas Professors, said the faculty had not asked for a higher increase because it wanted to do so.
"WE DIDN'T push for more than 7 percent because that what's the president called for in his wage and price guidelines," he said.
But Gerhard Zuther, professor of English and chairman of the Faculty Council, said the mood of the Legislature was against large increases in anything.
"I don't know that the climate in Topeka is of such a nature that they would give an impression of a warmer infilation," Zuther said. "And they have never had the view that they should catch up with the climate."
Zuther also voiced concern for next year's proposal to increase salaries. Next year's increase would not be enough to compensate for this year's inflation, he said.
"A 7 percent increase next year in view of the predictions of inflation would be worse."
Tuesday, March 27, 1979
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 89. No.118
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Era of peace begins for Egypt and Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) - Egypt and Israel, enemies for a generation, signed a treaty yesterday to begin a new but fragile era of peace between Arab and Jew.
In a solemn ceremony on the front lawn of the White House, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin put their names to Arabic, Hebrew and English copies of a treaty involving mutual recognition, respect and peace.
"Pace has come," declared a beaming President Carter, whose personal intervention brought the peace talks back to the table in several stalements on the details of a treaty.
CARTER QUOTED the Bible and the Koran and offered a personal prayer that would be a reflection of his faith.
Sadat, replying, declared, "Let there be no more blooded between Arabs and Christians."
Sadat and Begin both praised Carter profusely. Sadat called him a man of compassion; Begin said Carter's work would be remembered for generations.
Even at lunch, only a little more than an hour before they signed, Begin and Sadat were still disputing what the treaty papers should call the West Bank area. Begin insisted on referring to it as Judea and Samaria.
AFTER SIGNING, the three grasped each other in a three-way handshake. Carter said, "We're ready."
But agreement did not come easily.
Outside the White House gates, 1,000 protesters, supporters of Palestinians, shouted their opposition, charging that they believed by cause by making a separate peace with Israel.
In the treaty, Israel agreed to dismantle
Jewish settlements and return to Egypt the
settled land.
Egypt agreed, for the first time, to formally recognize her Jewish neighbor as a member of the state.
A score of Jewish settlements are to be dismissed, "a parish that Hegan says we will abandon," he said.
THE HEART of the treaty is Israel's two-year withdrawal from the Sinai Desert.
Also, Israel airfields will be demobilized and handed over to Fovik for civilian use.
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Agreement on the final details, the question of Israel's access to oil from wells to be surrendered back to Egypt, came in a Saddam face-to-face session between Sadat and Bet.
Beginner dropped his proposal that the treaty be signed at two further ceremonies, in
Instead, he agreed to settle for a one-day visit next Monday to Cairo.
It will be a return call for the historic visit of Satad to Jerusalem on Nov. 19, 1977, which started the peace process after years of rushing rhetoric between the two countries.
Kansan illustration by SHEILA KNIEGSHAUSER
Pact is protested, praised
Staff Reporter
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
The treaty that brought peace to Egypt and Israel yesterday has stirred controversy at the University of Kansas.
Two groups, the Moslem Student Association and the Organization of Arab Students, have planned rallies for today and tomorrow to protest the treaty.
The peace treaty calls for Israel's
surrender to the Sinai desert within a
three-year period.
Israel agreed to break up Jewish settlements and return to Egypt Sinai land.
As a concession, Egypt agreed to
launch Israel for a time as a
military ally.
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Mohamed Mustafa Ghuj, Misurata,
Libya, graduate student and a member of the Organization of Arab Students, said his
group thought the treaty was unjust to the Palestinian people.
"I'm NOT AGAINST peace, just against this treaty. They are dealing with a simple peace between Egypt and Israel. It doesn't consider Palestine." Gumi said.
A Palestinian student who requested that his name be withheld because he said he had been harassed in the past, said the treaty was made at Palestine's expense.
"The treaty doesn't recognize the national rights of Palestine, it ignores the rights of Israelis. It ignores the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and it legalizes occupation by ignoring the Gaza war."
Both Arab students said that the treaty, by neutralizing Egypt, would disrupt the balance of power in the Middle East and lead to war.
BUT THE DISMAL warnings of some students could not dampen the enthusiasm of others.
Odred Dromed, Tel-Aviv, Israel, graduate student, called the signing of the peace treaty "a great moment in the history of the Middle East."
"I see quite a future for peace," Droum said. "For我 personally it means that now I can go to Egypt to see the pyramids, and there and maybe do business there."
Ahmad Abou-Helaw, Alexandra Egypt, graduate student and president of the Egyptian Student Association, also spoke of the effect peace would have on him.
"To me it means I will lose no more friends or family to war. And when I go back next year, I will find my country in a much better economic situation," he said.
MOHAMED EL-HODIRI, professor of economics and adviser of the Egyptian
Student Association, said he was optimistic about the peace treaty.
"I know the treaty doesn't solve all the problems. But it is a good beginning." El-Hodri said.
Bracha Galander, Jerusalem, Israel, graduate student, offered a more cautious reaction to the peace treaty.
"I have very mixed feelings about it. I myself am very skeptical because I don't know all the details. I will give it some time," she said.
Her husband Yechil, a research associate in the pharmaceutical chemistry department, explained the reason for his mixed feelings about the treaty.
"I don't think we yet have peace in the Mideast, but if it a good step for the future. If the other Arab countries will realize that they are threatened by negotiations, we will have a real peace."
JRP residents ask room check explanation
By LAURA STEVENS
Staff Reporter
About 150 residents of Joseph R. Pearson Hall met for almost two hours last night with Richard Froik, JRP resident director, Bob Nugent, JRP assistant resident and Daniel made during a hall safety check that was made during spring break.
During the check, staff members found violations of the residence hall contract, including marijuana plants and alcohol. Students who were found in violation of the contract were notified Sunday in a letter from Frolik.
Frokins said JRP staff members had not anticipated having to check rooms for safety problems and for that reason, she insisted.
During that check, violations that were left in the open were noted on a list of room numbers. Frokk said No.
Froik said he made the decision to check the entire hall after receiving two phone calls from residents on March 10
"NO ONE AT Strong Hall has seen that list," Frolik said.
One resident asked Frokl why he had not been contacted since spring break informing him that his room had been entered. He also asked Frokl why violators did not receive notes until Sunday.
"We were checking with ORP and the KU council to make 100 percent sure we were in the right," Frolk said.
THE ORP IS the Office of Residential Programs.
THE GREATs The Office of Residential Programs.
SOME OF THEM ask what would happen to them if they were found in violation.
"None of this will be on any of your records," he said. "It stays on a piece of paper in Strong Hall until the end of the semester. At that time, I have the pleasure of ripping it up in my hand. If you must in next year, no one will know any different."
*IF THIS is a first warning, it will be a first warning. If this is in a second or third warning, it will be noted at ORP and *FIRST WARNING*.
Some students were concerned with the staff's right to enter a room without notice or the resident's permission.
"No matter how you try to get around it, you still have no right to violate our rights," one resident said. "I agree you have to go in for the safety checks but these doors are not where you were in my room without my consent and presence."
Friars said the student rights committee of the Student Senate planned to discuss the policy on entering rooms at the university.
CHRIS CLINE, chairman of the AUHR housing services committee, and that her committee was discussing four new housing projects.
"We have not made a formal statement at this time," she said at the JRP meeting.
Fredra said he would talk to Fred McEhlene, director of the office of residential programs, who is out of town until next spring.
KJHK funding request delayed
The Student Senate Communications Committee voted to delay its decision on funding for KKRHI station last night after a Senate's use of Senate funds allocated last year.
All committee recommendations will come before the full Senate April 8. Organizations who wish to appeal the committee recommendations can do so then.
Although the committee recommended a $73,260 line allocation for the Kansan, JKHK will have to wait until tonight's meeting for approval on its $1,517 request for fiscal year 1980.
Last spring, the Senate allocated 75 cents a student to KJRH with the understanding that it would be able to allocate normal line allocation would generate $18,000 to be used for the purchase of a
Margaret Berlin, student body president,
last said night that the additional funding
also carried a stipulation that the transmitter purchase would enable JKH to use the system.
STEVE PEGG, station manager of KJIK, said that the station instead was awaiting administration approval on conversion to 100 watts instead of 1,000 watts. As a result, $6,000 of the $18,000 temporary facility will be used for general station improvements.
Pegg said he had discussed the alternative use of the $6,000 with Mike Harper.
However, Berlin questioned Harper's authority to approve the alternative use of a drug.
The Communications Committee will complete its recommendations at tonight's night.
The Academic Affairs Committee heard budget requests from eight student organizations. Final budget cuts will be made Thursday and Friday.
THE ORGANIZATIONS' tentative allocations and their original requests were: Black American Law Students Association, $55 from $1360; Psychology from $290 from $290; Student Association for the Combined Health Sciences, $290 from $360.
Engineering Student Council, $1,100 from
$2,100; University Association for the Advancement of Women Engineers, $315 from
$1,266.
Astronomy Associates of Lawrence, $710
from $1,240; Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical
Fraternity, $260 from $450 and University
Kansas Geophysical Society, $170 from $380.
THE COMMITTEE delayed voting on
The Cultural Affairs Committee voted last night to recommend a five cent line allocation increase to the University Conference Center and to increase the Chamber Music Series.
budget requests from five other organizations until tomorrow night.
The Student Services Committee heard budget requests from seven student organizations. Volunteer Clearing House did not appear as scheduled.
The groups recommended allocations and original requests were:
Legal Aid Society, $4,350 from $5,300;
Academic Freedom Action Coalition, $695 from $455; Friends of Headquarters,
$7,793.25 from $8,143.25.
Alpha Phi Omega, $1,081 from $1,661;
Commission on the Status of Women, $1,661;
from $2,500. KU Ecology Club, $2,133 from
KU Veterans, $7,029 for $7,029.
The Sports Committee heard budget requests totalling $94,406 from Recreation Services. Committee members delayed action on the requests until Thursday because of printing errors in the budget request.