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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
"THERE IS A general feeling of being in a 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.
"The dehumanization of people by audits and evaluations fits a business and commercial world rather than a university," he said.
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, supports Wright's research.
"We have an administration concerned more with economic efficiency rather than academic excellence," Leban said. "That is not a bad thing, running a supermarket at a university."
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of mathematics and a member of FacEx, said that evaluations of faculty by students, as well as those of students had the worst effect on faculty morale.
"The faculty are made to evaluate each other constantly," Srinivasan said. "They don't see evaluation leading to anything except to create more friction."
Ano Krapper, professor of business and a member of FaceEx, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that participants were prevented from being creative.
"Because student evaluations are used in tenure evaluations, the instructor has to teach to the masses so that he doesn't get rated too low," Knapper said. "Faculty members have to be careful not to offend too many students."
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 backstaging sessions, he said, where faculty tried to out-justify each other for the wage increases.
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not want to be.
Wright also said that the almost constant demand for documentation of ability through evaluations had made the faculty almost paranoid about demonstrating their skills.
"In a corporate structure this may be legitimate, but not in a University."
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he agreed that there were increased bureaucratic controls over the University's faculty, but he said there was little he could
"Every spring the members of the departments compete for the merit salary money." Leban said. "This is one of the departments of morale and the cooperative element."
"YOU HAVE ALMOST constant feedback asking are you good enough," Wright said. "Faculty members, especially those looking forward to our work, will turn to out the product demanded of them."
"There are an increasing amount of federal and state regulations that force the University to engage in monitorite tivities and procedures." Dykes said
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 gotten to the point where the institu higher education no longer control the houses," Dykes said.
"Faculty are legitimately concern the growing bureaucracy, but a lo faculty don't realize that it's not from us," he said.
Dykes said he knew that educa-
been hurt by the growing bureaus
that the only thing that could be do
Approval of funding could aid KU budge
TOPEKA-Funding for women's athletics and libraries could be restored to the KU budget if the recommendations of a Kansas House Ways and Means subcommittee are approved.
In addition, the three-member subcommittee has made a recommendation to $277,500 from an allocation for renovation of Marvin Hall to renovate shift屋.
Under Gov. John Carlin's budget recommendations, funding for neither women's athletics nor a library security system were given. The subcommittee is scheduled to make its entire presentation to the entire committee today.
Yesterday, subcommittee members met with Marlon Rein, director of legislative research, to refine their recommendations on the KU budget.
Among the subcommittee's recommendations were the restoration to the building facilities necessary for operating expenses for women's athletics and $10,000 for the library security system.
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the
government recommended that
Marylin Maynard be appointed.
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
City, subcommittee chairman, a favored splitting the money in order both construction projects off the next year.
"We're going to have to finish buildings sooner or later anyway, longer we put off starting on Lind more it will cost in the long run," he said.
remenman said the funds to for renovation of both buildings she allocated by the Legislature next would take about $1,550,000 to finish Hall and about $1,850,000 to finish he said.
Despite the high cost of renovation is about $50 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 vv important because of all the moving books in the room. Heinemann said, "Besides, the red book theta will make the system work."
The $16,660 that would be rested women's athletics is less than half of request by KU. Subcommittee said the money would be used for athletic events and for an athletic room.
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Srinivasan and Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction and chairman of FacEx, said that more faculty involvement in administrative functions was needed.
Faculty members said they agreed that over-regulation harmed the University but they offered their own solutions to the faculty morale problem.
try to prevent more regulations from appearing on the books.
"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence." Dykes said.
"MANY FACULTY members want more involvement in making the budget," Swartz said. "Having confidence in the budget allocations would boost morale."
But Heller said it no longer was possible for the administrative head of a large corporation to vote.
"It's not the day any longer where a university president can go around patting people on the back," Heller said. "The role of an administrator today is to acquire resources."
Athletics...
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
Srinivasa said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that
men's athletic director, who was not responsible for women's athletics.
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Tracy Spellman, a board member, said the effectiveness of the merger would depend on the attitudes of the administration.
do what it says it will do I
KU artist combines electronics, jewelry
if the two boards merger, women's athletics would lose their emphasis on academics.
“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.”
Dykes said he wanted to emphasize that the board would advise the athletic director
Nernchow, 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 away from a university campus.
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 would be directed by light, temperature and movement.
By RHONDA HOLMAN Staff Reporter
The brooches, belts and rings Gary Emchock designs look more like props for a costume shop than they do.
But Nernchock's design, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, fiber optics and light diodes, may be the jewelry of the day.
Staff Reporter
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nermock, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working with different applications of new materials in the fields of artist and designer are just expanding."
Nernchock's "bodonic jewelry," as he calls it, combines traditional metals in geometric designs with tiny flashishing and pinpoints of light—all powered by a tiny battery and a sensor that activates the lights when the pieces are worn.
Nemchock said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone networks and other country. He said because much of the
"I AUDITED SOME courses in the sciences and I hang around the engineering building and Malotl Hall a lot," he said. "The research materials are here and I think KU has really been supportive of research in the arts."
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Nemchok, who came to the University of Kansas in 1972 from the art institue 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.
"It's just basic research now," he said. There are no guide books on how to do it and I don't know where to find them.
Yeshua homes islet
By LAURA STEVENS Staff Renorter
Bee Ges music blares from a stereo on the second floor. Downstairs, a student is painting the kitchen while several other residents help themselves to Kool-Aid after jogging.
The two-story frame house is like the others in its neighborhood east of campus and the men who live there are like other college students.
The only difference is that the six men and the woman in the house next door have chosen to live cooperatively for more than financial reasons.
The people are Christians. The houses are the Yeshua Houses owned by Campus Christians Inc. 1217 and 1219 Tennessee St.
"Our goals are all the same," Jon Maupin, Hays senior said, "and that to be conform with Jesus Christ and have him as our goal."
Yeshua House was organized six years ago to provide Christian fellowship for college students. It started in the house at 1221 Tennessee which housed several men.
THREE YEARS ago Camp Christians, whose board of directors includes Independent Christian ministers and laymen from across Kansas, bought the house at 1217 Tennessee Street.
"I'm here because it's great to live with a Christian atmosphere," Maupin said.
There have been as many as seven women and nine men living in the houses in a year. The residents all said they were living there because they thought God wanted them to. But no one else knew how long they had been living there.
Ray Barra, Overland Park senior, said, "I just like the environment of waking up in a Christian atmosphere and going to bed with the same security."
The residents agree to abide by guidelines in a covenant written two years ago, which outlines basic rules.
RESIDENTS ARE expected to share housework and cooking duties and to work toward the basic goals of Campus Christians.
Those goals are to help Christian students remain loyal to their faith while in college, to train students to become leaders in churches and to work for Christianity on campus.
The residents open the houses to a larger fellowship group of about 35 Campus Christians, who meet there Tuesday evenings. Most residents also attend small Bible studies on Sunday.
Although Campus Christians is supported by contributions from individuals and
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