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Tuesday, March 6, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Morale .
From page one
the university like a business. They want to show the Legislature 'look how many eggs in the bowl.'
"THEER 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, supportrs Wright H.
Abbey
"We have an administration concerned more with economic efficiency rather than academic excellence," Leban said. "That is why we are running a supermarket than a university."
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of mathematics and a member of FacEx, said that evaluations of faculty by students, teachers, and faculty had 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."
Ari Knoxer, professor of business and a member of FaceX, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that members were prevented from creative
"Because student evaluations are used in teacher evaluations, the instructor has to teach them how to report a rating too low," Knapper said. "Faculty members have to be careful not to offend 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 backstabbing sessions, he said, where faculty tried to out-justify each other for the wage increases.
"Every spring the members of the departments compete for the merit salary money." Leban said. "This is one of the greatest sources of morale and the cooperative element."
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not want to be on the payroll.
Wright also said that the almost constant demand for documentation of ability through evaluations had made the faculty almost paranoid about demonstrating their knowledge.
"In a corporate structure this may be legitimate, but not in a University."
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he agreed that there were increasing bureaucratic controls over the University's faculty, but he said there was little he could
"YOU HAVE ALMOST constant feedback asking are you good enough." Wright said. "Faculty members, especially those looking for a job, often turn to turn out the product depended 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 institut higher education no longer control the houses," Dwkes said.
"Faculty are legitimately coner the growing bureaucracy, but a lot faculty don't realize that it's not from us," he said.
Dykes said he knew that educati
been hurt by the growing bureaucra
that the only thing that could be done
Approval of funding could aid KU budge
In addition, the three-member subcommittee has made a recommendation to sell $27.500 from an allocation for 10 percent of Marvin Hall to renovate Lindley Hall.
Westerday, subcommittee members met with Marlon Rein, director of legislative research, to refine their recommendations on the KU budget.
Under Gov. John Carlin's budget recommendation, funding for neither the State University nor the state system were given. The subcommittee is scheduled to make its entire presentation to Gov. Carlin.
Among the subcommittee's recommendations were the restoration to the budget of $16,800 for miscellaneous expenses and $10,000 for the library security system.
TOPEKA-Funding for women's athletics and libraries could be restored to the KU budget if the recommendations of a Kansas Department of Means subcommittee are approved today.
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the
commented for $1,277,000 be allocated
for the project.
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, s叛赢 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.
Heimman said the funds to fi-
renovation of both buildings she
allocated by the Legislature next;
would take about $1,555,000 to finish
Hall and about $1,550,000 to finish
he said.
Despite the high cost of renovation is about $54 a square foot, he said rew would 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 $16,600 that would be rest 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.
"The book detection system is iv in the library," he said, doing during library renovation next Heinemann said. "Besides, the red book theta will help me the system do."
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"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence." Dykes said.
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, with the ability to be directed by light, temperature and movement.
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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Srinivasan and Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction and chairman of FacEx, said that more faculty involvement in administrative functions was needed.
"MANY FACULTY members want more involvement in making the budget," Swartz said. "Having confidence in the budget allocations would boost morale."
Nermoch, 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.
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
"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."
But Heller said it no longer was possible to the administrative head of a large department.
But Nernchock's designs, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, fiber optics and light diodes, may be the jewelry of the future.
Srinivasan said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that as much as possible, the staff
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nemechok, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working on new materials. The tools of the artist and designer are just expanding."
"It's not the day any longer where a university president can go around ganging people on the back," Heller said. "The role of administrator today is to acquire resources."
men's athletic director, who was not responsible for women's athletics.
Tracy Spellman, a board member, said the effectiveness of the merger would depend on the attitudes of the administration.
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Nernchock, 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 working here, working with electronic jewelry. He said the work was too new to be profitable.
IT WILL do what it says it will do. I
if the two boards merged, women's athletics would lose their emphasis on academics.
The brooches, belts and rings Gary Nemchock designs look more like prop for the model.
KU artist combines electronics, jewelry
"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 attorney director
Nernchock said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone and computer science, a country. He said because much of the
By RHONDA HOLMAN
Nernchock "bodonic jewelry," as he calls it, combines traditional metals in geometric designs with tiny flashing bulbs and pinpoints of light—all powered by a tiny battery and a sensor that activates the lights when the pieces are worn.
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Before students make plans to subtlet their apartments in Lawrence for the summer, they should find out their manager's subletting policy.
Subletting means that the current tenant, who is renting his apartment from a manager, also is renting out part of the place to a second tenant, Lanny Rose, associate attorney. The tenant will be responsible for paying the rent.
The practice is permissible unless it is excluded in the lease, Rose said.
But he said the term commonly was used to describe renting an entire apartment by the first tenant to a second tenant.
In an informal survey of about 25 apartment complexes in Lawrence, most managers said they permitted tenants to submit. But the policies of subletting varied among
The two tenants should make these agreements between themselves,he said.
PAUL JONES, manager of Spanish Crest Apartments, 2004 W. 27th St., said subletting an apartment was the responsibility of the former tenant.
He said the second tenant did not sign a new lease with the management or pay a security deposit to the management.
Jones said only two apartments in the complex had been subtuted in the past four years. A tenant wanted to move before his lease expired, he usually tried to work out some kind of agreement.
"We'd really rather let them out of their lease and re-rent the apartment ourselves," he said.
he said.
Linda Frankenfeld, manager of the Acorn Apartments, 1815 W. 24th St., said that
We'd really rather let them out of the lease and re-rent the apartment ourselves.
"SAY, FORM example, there is a hole in the door. When the tenants go through the apartment they would put this on the check list," she said. "It prevents a lot of disputes over the rent."
when a tenant sublet she had the old and new tenants inspect the apartment together and fill out a maintenance check list, noting any damage in the apartment.
The new tenant then signs a new lease with the management and pays a separate deposit. The former tenant is released from his contract obligations and his deposit is returned to the landlord.
Frankenfeld, who also manages Crescent, Gaslight and the Oaks apartments, said that the former resident was supposed to clean the apartment before he leaves, but the owner was not willing to do it.
"If there is a dispute about the apartment, we tell the subtenant to take it up with the former tenant—we aren't involved in any way," she said.
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT Staff Reporter
City rent highest in area
Lawrence residents should be pleased to know that a recent Chamber of Commerce survey showed that groceries in the city are cheaper in Kansas City, Kan., Wichita or Omaha.
However, the same survey indicated that apartment costs in Lawrence far exceed those in the other three areas.
Of 25 grocery items surveyed, 13 were cheapest in Lawrence—including toilet paper.
Furthermore, the average electric bill in the city last year was almost half that of the average monthly charge in Kansas City.
The average monthly rate for a 900- to-
1000-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment
in Lawrence during the last quarter of 1978
was $230.
That figure was 27 percent higher than the average price for apartments in Wichita and 12 percent more than those in Kansas City.
"THERE IS a higher demand for
HOUSING
Apartment (two-bedroom per month) . . . 250.00 . 260.00 . 238.00 . 220.00
House (month) . . . 323.00 . 379.00 . 394.00 . 482.00
UTILITIES
Electric (month) . . . 66.69 . 33.77 . 26.00 . 62.50
Gas (month) . . . 22.95 . 22.00 . 31.00 . 19.53
Telephone (month) . . . 9.22 . 7.26 . 6.37 . 7.15
Total . . . 98.86 . 63.03 . 63.37 . 89.18
TRANSPORTATION
Taxi (two miles) . . . 2.45 . 2.10 . 1.25 . 1.85
Regular gas (national brand, full service, tax included; per gallon) . . . 63.9 . 67.9 . 69.9 . 69.7
HEALTH CARE
Hospital (semi-private room, one day) . . . 96.00 . 80.50 . 76.00 . 99.00
Doctor (office visit) . . . 15.00 . 10.00 . 10.00 . 12.52
Dentist (office visit) . . . 10.00 . 17.50 . 16.00
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Men's haircut. . . 5.00 . 15.00 . 4.00 . 5.25
Woman's shampoo and set. . . 6.16 . 7.00 . 4.50 . 6.50
Dry cleaning (man's two piece suit). . . 2.51 . 2.70 . 2.70 . 3.20
Movie (first run, evening). . . 2.50 . 2.00 . 2.00 . 3.50
Television repair (color, excluding parts). . . 17.13 . 20.00 . 16.25 . 21.59
Liquor (750 ml, Seagram's Seven Crown). . . 6.07 . 5.83 . 6.13
Total . . . 40.22 . 43.02 . 36.32* . 46.97
*does not include liquor
COMPARISON OF THE FOUR CITIES NATIONALLY MEAN BEING 100
food, including utilities, health transportation, and miscellaneous expenses) 97.9 99.7 93.8 106.2
Food 100.2 99.8 102.4 99.1
Housing 84.2 97.5 96.1 110.5
Transportation 106.7 130.3 101.9 95.6
Utilities 126.6 79.2 80.7 115.5
Health 96.0 89.5 86.2 102.6