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Tuesday, March 6, 1979
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Morale ...
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the University like a business. They want to show the Legislature 'look how many eggs
"THESE IS A general feeling of being in corporate system where things are manufactured and produced, rather than created."
Wright said the administration had instilled a corporate atmosphere in the faculty through continual evaluations and competition for benefits.
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, supports Writer's Workshop.
"The dehumanization of people by audits and evaluations fits a business and commercial world rather than a university," he said.
"We have an administration concerned more with economic efficiency rather than academic excellence," Leban said. "That is why we are running a supermarket at a university."
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of mathematics and a member of Fexa, said that evaluations of faculty by students, who are part of the faculty, had had the worst effect on faculty morale.
"The faculty are made to evaluate each other constantly," Srivinasan said. "They don't see evaluation leading to anything except to create more friction."
Arko Nripper, professor of business and a member of FaceX, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that members were prevented from being creative.
"Because student evaluations are used in tenure evaluations, the instructor has to test students' ability to rate too low," Knapper said. "Faculty members have to be careful not to offender them."
LEBAN SAID the evaluations—combined with the bad economics situation—had resulted in an ugly trend. The application and evaluation process for merit salary
increases awarded by the departments had turned into backtabbing sessions, he said, where faculty tried to out-justify each other for the wage increases.
Wright also said that the almost constant demand for documentation of ability through evaluations had made the faculty almost blind about demonstrating their own abilities.
"In a corporate structure this may be legitimate, but not in a University."
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not know what was required.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he agreed that there were increasing bureaucratic controls over the University's ability, but he said there was little he could do.
"Every spring the members of the departments compete for the merit salary money. Leban said, "This is one of the reasons for morale or morale and the cooperative element."
Dykes said he spends one-third of working on business involving gov regulations. More rules seem to be each day, he said.
"THEY SEEM to be inevitable, but got to the point where the institit high education no longer control thouses." Dykes said.
"YOU HAVE ALMOST constant feedback asking are you good enough." Wright said. "Faculty members, especially those looking for a place to work, can turn out the product demanded of them.
"There are an increasing amount of federal and state regulations that force the University to engage in monitoring tivities and procedures." Dykes said
"Faculty are legitimately concer the growing bureaucracy, but a lo faculty don't realize that it's not from us." he said.
Dykes said he knew that educat been hurt by the growing bureaucr that the only thing that could be dome
TOPEKA-Funding for women's athletics and libraries could be restored to the KU budget if the recommendations of a Kansas Board of Means subcommittee are approved today.
Approval of funding could aid KU budge
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the governor recommended that $1,277 be allocated to improve the school system.
In addition, the three-member subcommittee has made a recommendation to sell $277,500 from an allocation for Marvin Hill to renovate Lindley Hall.
Yesterday, subcommittee members met with Marlon Rein, director of legislative research, to refine their recommendations on the KU budget.
Under Gov. John Carlin's budget neither women's athletics nor a library system were given. The subcommittee is scheduled to make its entire presentation to the governor.
Among the subcommittee's recommendations were the restoration to the library system the ability to operate expenses for women's athletics and $10,000 for the library security system.
However, subcommittee members broke that figure down, allocating $1 million for the renovation of Marvin and $277,500 for the renovation of Lindley.
State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden
"We're going to have to have
buildings sooner or later anyway
longer we put off starting on Lind
more it continues the long run," he said.
City, subcommittee chairman, s favored splitting the money in order both construction projects off the next year.
Henneman said the funds to fini-
renovation of 8 baths buildings she
had planned would take about $1,550,000 to finish
Hall and all $1,650,000 to finish
Despite the high cost of renovation is about $54 a square foot, he said rewould still be cheaper than building building.
Because of the value of the book KU libraries, subcommittee memb that restoration of funding for a security system would pay for itself.
"The book detection system is very important for all of the moving objects in the environment. Heinemann said. "Besides, the red book thefts will help the system."
The $16,660 that would be rest women's athletics is less than half or request by KU. Subcommittee said the money would be used for athletic events and for an athletic room.
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Faculty members said they agreed that over-regulation harmed the University but they offered their own solutions to the faculty morale problem.
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try to prevent more regulations from appearing on the books.
"MANY FACULTY members want more involvement in making the budget." Swartz said. "Having confidence in the budget allocations would boost morale."
"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence." Dykes said.
Srinivasan and Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction and chairman of FacEx, said that more faculty involvement in administrative functions was needed.
new metal, titanium, which can be changed to any color. He said he also had hopes of making jewelry that could emit sounds and light, and that could be reflected by light, temperature and movement.
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
Nernchock, who grew up in Chicago and studied jewelry design in Denmark, said he always had an interest in electronics, physics and metallurgy. He said the work he was doing would be much more difficult a way from a university campus.
But Heller said it no longer was possible for the administrative head of a large corporation to monitor stock.
Srivimaan said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that
"It's not the day any longer where a university president can go around patting people on the back," Heller said. "The role of administrator today is to acquire resources."
Athletics...
Tracy Spellman, a board member, said the effectiveness of the merger would depend on the attitudes of the administration.
men's athletic director, who was not responsible for women's athletics.
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"It's the women who are having to make the biggest changes," she said. "And I'm afraid if the boards merge, we might lose our philosophy."
if the two boards merged, our athletics would lose their emphasis on academics.
KU artist combines electronics, jewelry
Dykes said he wanted to emphasize that the board would advise the athletic director
"I AUDITED SOME courses in the sciences and I hang around the engineering building and Malot Hall a lot," he said. "The research materials are here and I think KU has really been supportive of research in the arts."
By RHONDA HOLMAN Staff Reporter
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Namchock, who came to the University of Kansas in 1972 from the art institute in Cleveland, said he was in contact with English, German and West Coast designers who were working with electronic jewelry. He said the work was too new to be profitable.
But Nemchock's designs, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, fiber optics and light diodes, may be the jewelery of the day.
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nemchok, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working with different combinations of new tools in our work to the artist and designer are just tools."
Nernchock's "bodonic jewelry," as he calls it, combines traditional metals in geometric designs with tiny flashing bulbs and pinpots of light—all powered by a tiny battery and a sensor that activates the lights when the pieces are worn.
Nernchock said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone and computer country. He said because much of the
"It's just basic research now," he said. "There are no guide books on how to do it, so I have to look for my own tips."
Roaches eager, resilient
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By RICK JONES Staff Reporter
Lawrence apartments are full of tenants who never pay rent. They don't care about air conditioning, utilities or wall-to-wall carpeting.
They like garbage and leftover food.
These freeloaders are mice and cockroaches.
It doesn't matter if a house is clean because they manage to get by on the street.
"Nearly every place I've been in Lawrence has had roaches," Charlie Bradberry, Los Angeles senior, said. "I always make an effort to put food away and keep the place clean, but the bugs always come back."
runs a close second. Both are extremely hardy and have developed resistances to some poisons. Neither bug looks pleasant in a dark kitchen.
Susan Ottermess, Wichita senior, said she had seen many roaches and mice since her study began.
THE ROACH THAT really brings on the willes is the American cockroach, which can grow to a length of almost two inches. Do not use it.
"We usually average about one mouse in the mouse trap every couple of weeks," she said. The roaches normally die a short, dead life, but if it never really gets rid of them.
George W. Byers, professor of entomology and curator of the entomology museum in Snow Hall, said that cockroaches were the most common domesticated species that and did not take much to bring them crawling out of the woodwork.
"ROACHES ARE OMNIVOROUS—they'll eat anything," he said. "If there is no real food around, a roach can be made in a newspaper, cardboard—even dried palm."
"I was getting greens, blues--you name it," he said. "I couldn't figure it out.
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ad thought the bugs in an apartment she had rented were large crickets.
"One night I walked into the kitchen and found them swarming over a pan of lasagna I had made for dinner," she said. "I was at that point that they weren't crickets."
"Then I found a small set of water color paints in my desk with suspicious-looking nibble marks in the different paint tins."
Landlords are not required to keep their property free of roaches, but some call exterminators regularly to keep the bug population in check.
She said she had moved out of the apartment at the end of the semester.
Harold Yarger, who owns Lawrence houses rented by students, said he had asked exterminators to spray his buildings once a month, depending on their location.
According to Byers, there are 4,000 species of cockroaches in the world, of which only six are considered nestes. Of those six, four are found in Lawrence.
"The Oread neighborhood is the worst section as far as bugs go," he said. "It's extremely difficult to keep roaches out of some of the houses in that area."
THE OREAD neighborhood is bounded by Ninth St. on the north, Massachusetts St. on the east and the University on the south and west.
Many tenants are on their own when it comes to dealing with roaches.
The German cockroach is probably the most common, and the brown-banded cockroach
Lara Shah, Lawrence junior, said when she reported a roach problem to her landlord recently, he had bought her a can of Raid bug spray.
"It's not doing a whole lot of good," she said. "There are a lot of apartments in this house, and unless we all spray, the bugs will just migrate from room to room."
Local exterminators agreed that it wouldn't do any good to spray only part of a roach-infected house.
"Roaches are master escape artists," John Rogers, Rogers Pest Control, 821 Michigan St. , said. "If I sprayed only a couple of rooms in a house, the roaches would find the room that was supposed to be vacant."
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