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Tuesday, March 6, 1979
University Dally Kansan
Morale ...
From nave one
the Universiteit like a business. They want to show the Legislature 'look how many eggs they are'.
"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.
"We have an administration concerned more with economic efficiency rather than academic excellence" Leban said. "That is what we do, running a nonprofit marketware or a university."
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, supported Wright's research.
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of mathematics and a member of FacEx, said that evaluations of faculty by students, teachers and administrators had had the worst effect on faculty morale.
Arno Knapper, professor of business and a member of FacEx, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that the members were prevented from creative work.
"Because student evaluations are used in tenure evaluations, the instructor has to be careful not to ratate too low," Knapper said. "Faculty members have to be careful not to offend them."
"The faculty are made to evaluate each other constantly," Srinivasan said. "They don't see evaluation leading to anything except to create more friction."
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 backstating 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 most instructive challenges of morale and economic judgements."
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."
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not know of them.
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
"THEY SEEM to be inevitable, bobg to the point where the institt higher education no longer control t houses." Dykes said.
Dykes said he spends one-third of working on business involving.gov regulations. More rules seem to be each day, he said.
"Faculty are legitimately conce the growing bureaucracy, but a le faculty don't realize that it's not from us," he said.
"There are an increasing amount of federal and state regulations that force the University to engage in monitoring tivities and procedures." Dwysa sai
"YOU HAVE ALMOST constant feedback asking are you good enough." Wright said. "Faculty members, especially those looking at you, will be able to turn out the product demanded of them.
Dykes said he knew that educa been hurt by the growing bureaucr that the only thing that could be dor
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 Means subcommittee are approved today.
In addition, the three-member subcommittee has made a recommendation to shift $277,500 from an allocation for Marvin Hall to renovate Lovett Hall.
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 budget for equipment or miscellaneous expenses for the library and $10,000 for the library security system.
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.
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the governor recommended that $1,277,500 be allocated for the renovation of Marvin Hall. However, subcommittee members broke the ground by locating $1 million for the renovation of Marvin and $277,500 for the renovation of Lindley.
State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden
City, subcommittee chairman, favored splitting the money in ord both construction projects off the next year.
"We're going to have to fini buildings sooner or later anyway, longer we put off starting on Lihe more it will cost in the long run." he
Hienmam said the funds to fi- renovation of both buildings st ream would take about $1,555 to final Hall and for $1,650 to finish
Despite the high cost of renovation is about $5 a square foot, he said he would still be cheaper than buildir building.
Because of the value of the bool KU libraries, subcommitment meml that restoration of funding for $i security system would pay for itself
the book detection system is issued by the library and doing during library renovation neHeimman said. "Besides, the red book theta will make the system run faster."
The $16,600 that would be res women's athletics is less than half a 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.
"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence." Dykes said.
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."
Srinivasan and Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction and chairman of FacEx, said that more faculty involvement in administrative functions was needed.
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
But Haller said it no longer was possible for the administrative head of a large company to get his own phone.
Srinivasan said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that they were doing well.
"It's not the day any longer where a university president can go around patting people on the back," Holler said. "The rule administrator today is to acquire resources."
Athletics...
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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.
IFS IT WILL I do what it says it will do. I
if the two boards merged, your 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."
KU artist combines electronics, jewelry
Dykes said he wanted to emphasize that the board would advise the athletic director
By RHONDA HOLMAN
Staff Reservoir
The broaches, belts and rings Gary Niemchock designs look more like props for a circus.
Staff Reporter
Nemchock, 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 emmit sounds and vibrations activated by light, temperature and movement.
"I AUDITED SOME courses in the sciences and I hang around the engineering building and Malott Hall a lot," he said. "The research materials are here and I think KU has really been supportive of research in the arts."
But Nermetcho's design, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, tether optics and light diodes, may be the jewelry of the future.
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nernchom, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working with different applications of new materials in the artist and designer are just expanding."
Nernchuck's "bodonic jewelry," as he calls it, combines traditional metals in a way that gives him an ability and pinpoints of light—all powered by a tiny battery and a sensor that activates the battery.
Nemchock said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone networks and other countries. He said because much of the
Nermichock, 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's just basic research now," he said. There are no guide books on how to do it, but there are many.
By BRENDA WATSON Staff Reporter
Sunlight filters through the once-off-white muslin curtains of a student's room. For the hundredth time she looks up from the window that usually ugly poster or the expanse of blank wall.
She has wanted to fix the place up for weeks, but just can't afford it.
Whether students live in a residence hall, apartment or house, countless inexpensive and imaginative decorating ideas are available.
Diana Dunkley, professional interior designer for Interior Design Group, 749 Massachusetts St., offers a few basic guidelines.
"First of all," she said, "don't invest in anything you can't take with you."
SHE ALSO suggested looking at things from a different perspective.
Dunkley said that when students were ready to leave, their belongings should be easy to take with them. That includes minerals and especially furniture, she said.
But decorating a whole apartment or even one room can be an overwhelming
"For instance, 'What would that chair look like if I painted it five different colors?' or 'Just that it was a box or could it be invented.' or 'what else?' she said. "Beinventive."
project if students do not know where to begin.
John DeWeese, Wamego interior design student, said, "The first thing you want to do is to make sure that your space is a way to do that is by dividing up the living space differently. Items that can serve as space dividers include metal-frame book crates, wainscoting, bricks or even furniture, like a lounge couch.
George Hixon, professor of design, said one of the most interesting room solutions in the world is the 360-degree view.
tops and bottoms of beer cans and stacking them on their sides to fill a wooden frame.
MARK FISCHER, Hazelwood, Mo. interior design student, suggested that we be able to divide their rooms by halves. He said it was important to let the individual living spaces overlap so that roommates were confined in room instead of being confined to one side.
Once the room is arranged, residents might be confronted with other decorating problems including undesirable floor
coverings, blank walls, visible pipes in the ceiling, insufficient storage space and an impersonal or cold atmosphere.
According to several Lawrence carpet dealers, carpet remnants can be used to create furniture and add color to a room. Remnants are cheap than regular carpets and are more durable.
HIXSON SUGGESTED stitching together discontinued carpet samples to use as a floor covering.
Fischer said that sometimes the
Imagination mother of decoration
Decorated dorm
Wishing to get away from the normal "drab" residence hall rooms
Kevin Gish, Kansas City, Kan., junior, built a loft and improvised shelves in his Hassinger Hall room.
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