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Tuesday, March 6, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Morale . . .
From nave one
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 Asia's studies, supported Wright Horn's research.
"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, the teachers and the students 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."
Anno Knaper, professor of business and a member of FacEx, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that new faculty members were prevented from newly hiring.
"Because student evaluations are used in tenure evaluations, the instructor has to test students on their performance rated 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 i for the wage increases.
Wright also said that the almost constant demand for documentation of ability through evaluations had made the faculty almost paranoid about demonstrating their competence.
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not want them.
"Every spring the members of the departments compete for the merit salary money," Leban said. "This is one of the most destructive elements of morale and damage."
"In a corporate structure this may be leitimate, but not in a University."
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he agreed that there were increasing bureaucatalic 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 tenure, will turn to umbrella rules to get an undiscounted product offered 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.
Dykes said he spends one-third of his working on business involving govern regulations. More rules seem to be pr each day, he said.
"THEY SEEM to be inevitable, but I gotten to the point where the institute higher education no longer control their houses." Dykes said.
"Faculty are legitimately concerne the growing bureaucracy, but a lot of faculty don't realize that it's not co from us," he said.
Dykes said he knew that education been hurt by the growing bureaucracy; that the only thing that could be done v
Approval of funding could aid KU budget
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.
In addition, the three-member sub-committee has made a recommendation to shell $277,500 from an allocation for Marvin Hall to renovate Langehall Law.
Under Gov. John Carlin's budget request, women areathletic or a library security system were given. The subcommittee is scheduled to make its entire presentation to Gov. Carlino on Tuesday.
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 of $16,500 for miscellaneous costs. The library received a $10,000 for the library security system.
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the U.S. announced the imminent allocation of the money for Marinah Park.
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 finish buildings soone or later anyway, alr longer we put off starting on Linda move it will cost in the long run "he says
City, subcommittee chairman, sal favored splitting the money in order both construction projects off the g nextyear.
Heinemann said the funds to fini-
mation, both buildings shown in
the image, would be about $1,555,000 to finish
Hall and add to $1,650,000 to finish L
Despite the high cost of renovation, is about $50 a square foot, he said reno would still be cheaper than building building.
Because of the value of the books KU libraries, subcommittee member that restoration of funding for a I security system would pay for itself.
"The book detection system is ve
portant because of all the moving the
book. The system knows where he
Heinemann said." Besides, the reduc
book thefts will make the system p
The $16,660 that would be resto women's athletics is less than half of a request by KU. Subcommittee said the money would be used for athletic events and for an athletic trroom.
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try to prevent more regulations from appearing on the books.
"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence," Dykes said.
Faculty members said they agreed that over-regulation harmed the University but they offered their own solutions to the faculty morale problem.
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."
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
But Heller said it no longer was possible for the administrative head of a large corporation to have such control.
Srivamvaan said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that the student will perform well.
"It's not the day any longer where a university president can go around patting people on the back," Heller said. "The role of the administrator today is to acquire resources."
men's athletic director, who was not responsible for women's athletics.
Athletics...
Fram nae ane
Tracy Spellman, a board member, said the effectiveness of the merger would depend on the attitudes of the administration.
if the two boards merged, women's athletics would lose their emphasis on academics.
do what it needs it will do.
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 philosohov."
Dykes said he wanted to emphasize that the board would advise the athletic director
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 detected by light, temperature and movement.
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.
By RHONDA HOLMAN
The brooches, belts and rings Gary Nenchock design look more like props for the movie *Hangover*.
"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."
Staff Reporter
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 were working with electronic jewelry. He said the work was too new to be profitable.
But Nernchock's designs, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, fiber optics and light disks, may be the jewelery of disks.
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nernchok, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working with different applications of new materials, an artist and designer are just expanding."
Nernchomk "bodonic jewelry," as he calls it, combines traditional metals in geometric designs with tiny fishing bulbs and pinpoints of light—all powered by a tiny battery and a sensor that activates the lights when the pieces are worn.
"It's just basic research now," he said.
There are no guide books on how to do it and you can learn all the basics from them.
Nerncock said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone and computer country. He said because much of the
By SHIRLEY SHOUP Staff Renorter
Controversy within the Oread Neighborhood Association last fall has faded but has not disappeared.
Kathy Clark, ONA president, said the disagreement between Oread residents and landlords has been clarified and the new issue is zoning.
Last fall the association was split on officer elections when resident homeowners and tenants accused landowners of their representatives would be egged.
Three of four offices were filled by
Harper said the ONA favored RM-3 zoning, which would allow triplexes. She said RM-3 zoning would prevent the construction of four-plexes in the area and force developers to move to another part of the city.
"But other areas don't want them either," she said.
INSTEAD OF replacing them, the ONA would like the existing house brought up to the new floor.
"We don't want to limit the number of
enrollments but, but we, we think
enrollment has hit it."
"We think Oread is the place to live and
Problems linger in Oread district
landlords, but the dispute calmed after new officers were elected.
NANCY HARPER, coordinator of the ONA Anti-Crime Program, said the residential-dormitory zoning would allow population to increase from 3,000 to 10,000.
Now, tenants and resident property owners oppose the current residential-dormitory zoning, which allows the highest number of occupants in the area oppose any change in the zoning.
The ONA has about 200 members, including landlords, tenants and resident homeowners. It was founded almost two years ago to help put together the neighborhood plan and implement improvements.
"In reality the area isn't high density," she said.
Only the area nearest the KU campus is densely populated, she said, and the rest of the university is remote.
Harper said the ONA supported the planning department's recommendation, which would allow diverse zoning in the city to support higher densities to where they now are.
"Every available lot is being saarfed up in the plurces are being put up in two weeks."
"No one hopes this area will ever be all single-family," she said.
we can't understand why students would want to live anywhere else."
Planning department figures indicate that students make up 45 percent of the Oread population.
Faculty members built homes in the area and because Oread was close to the University and downhill it was a prestigious neighborhood.
"This has not always been so. As Lawrence and the University of Kansas grew, construction gradually filled in the area between the town and the University.
When the original residents died, many of the large houses became rental property. Before World War II, there was an effort to expand the campus north to the University site where Gertrude Sellars P: Parson and Corbin residence hills now stand.
BUT THE property became too valuable as rental property when World War II started and in 1983 the area was rezoned to dental-dormitory, the highest density zoning.
In recent years, the deterioration of staircases housing led to the designation "student stairs."
Some landlords have said the transient student population cannot really judge deterioration because they have not seen the property during a long period.
But Clark says the claim of student transience is partly a myth.
"In some houses, deterioration is an obvious fact. You don't have to be there a long time to know that a house has deteriorated." she said.
"Some people in the neighborhood have lived here a long time," she said, "and anyone, whether they have lived here one year, years, has the right to live in a decent area."
CLARK SAID The ONA was trying to improve the quality of life for the residents of the area and the association did not view the property as an investment.
But Clark said she hoped the residents could work with the landlords in the area.
"They want to see improvement, too," Clark said, "and as you can see by walking through the area, that's not happening by itself."
"There's a difference between upgrading property that you live in and upgrading property that you rent," she said.
Harper said the association wanted to make improvements such as adding lighting, cleaning up alleys and putting dumbers in alleys for trash collection.
THE ONA Anti-Crime Program began early last fall, aided by a grant from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
Harper said one aim of the program was to make people aware of what they could do to make their property secure.
She said most of the burglaries in the area used to be non-forced entries. Lately, there have been no non-forced entries and fewer forced-entry burglaries.
are locking their doors now," she said.
As part of the program, a safe-house was established where Oread residents store valuable items when they were away from their homes.
Harper said in the past Oread had the highest crime rate in the city, mainly because was a predictable neighborhood.
DURING VACATION, thieves could go into apartment
Other measures the program has initiated include a phone system in which residents report suspected theft or assaults to alert them that a thief is in the area.
The program has offered services such as engraving property so that it can be easily mounted on walls, locks or light-regulating timers for extended absences. Workshops have been held on self-defense, rape prevention, legal rights and consumer affairs.
But Harper said that this winter she was pleased to see the crime rate drop sharply in the Oread neighborhood. At the same time, the crime rate increased in the rest of the city.
HARPER SAID the ONA wants to make the area a neighborhood where residents know and help one another. Block Watch, a program that uses the phone system, works on that basis and neighbors watch one another's homes.
The association has several activities planned for the spring to encourage them to meet and be said a neighborhood cleanup would be April to clean up the alleys and plant trees. She said the association planned to help the neighborhood fair and to sponsor an art show.
She said it was likely the crime rate in the Oread neighborhood would increase again in the spring, but she hoped it would never return to the previous high rate.
Staff illustration by Dan Martin
buildings and work to open doors all day without danger of being seen.
Life on the hill
published as a supplement to the University Daily Kansan in Lawrence, Kan.
table of contents
dorm decoration p. 4
stouffer place p. 6
apartment subletting p. 8
high rent p. 8
apartment abuse p. 11
home investments p. 11
christian life p. 12
landlord-tenant relations p. 12
bugs p. 14
apartment rates p. 16
commuters p. 18
athletic housing p. 18
land development p. 19
march 6,1979
editor barry massey
managing editor dirck steimel
special sections editor diane porter
campus desk mary hoenk, pam manson
copy chief linda finestone
copy editors jerry sass, rick sass
cover photograph trish lewis
photo editor alan zlotky
business manager karen wenderott
retail sales manager ron altman
staff photographer grant ringel
sales representatives allen blair, paul knoll,
jane knotts, brenda paxton, cindy ray,
allen reynolds, joanne smutny
general manager Rick musser
advertising adviser chuck chowins