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Gary Nemchok, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, creates electronic jewelry using solar cells, magnetic switches and light-emitting diodes. Nemchok hopes to have an array of solar cell-based devices on the market.
ASK opposes plan to redistrict county
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, may hear from angry KU students regarding his amendment for drawing new districts in County, a student libbist said yesterday.
The lobbyist, Steve Young, of the Associated Students of Kansas, said ASK members opposed Vogel's amendment because it would divide the student vote.
"We don't want to harass him. The purpose is not to change his mind, just to let him know we're unhappy." Young, the KU member of the ASK board of directors, said.
The amendment applies to a comprehensive reapportionment bill tentatively passed last week in the Kansas House. The bill would create a new voting district in east Lawrence, and would put the 44th district west of its present location.
The 4th district traditionally has been a stronghold for KU students, from whom State
Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, has drawn strong support.
GOV. JOHN Carlin said last week that Vogel's amendment was "pure politics" and threatened to veto the entire respite between the two countries, not revamp the Douglas County districts.
Young said, "Our best hope rests with Carlin. We plan to lobby him intensely."
"We are not campaigning for Mike Glover," Young said. "The issue at hand is division of the student voice and it's difficult to figure out how the House passed it. I guess that politics."
Glover, for example, has been an advocate of reducing the penalties for
During last week's meeting of the Faculty Executive Committee, a member of FacEs told Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, that the morale of the University's faculty was the lowest he had ever seen.
Faculty see their morale sinking
Although this view may not be shared universally, a number of KU faculty say they argue that morale is low.
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By JOHN LOGAN
In an informal survey of 15 faculty members, most said they were dissatisfied, but many said they were confused with their options.
All agreed that an overall sense of uneasiness has pervaded KU, but they were divided as to its cause.
Some faculty members said they were disillusioned with teaching, saying that the teaching profession had become an endless maze of critiques and evaluations. Several faculty members said the evaluation procedures remained
Some professors alleged that because of the tight money situation, previously friendly competition for merit raises had degenerated to cut-throating and back-stabbing among faculty members.
OTHERS SAID they were upset with the failure of faculty salaries to keep in with inflation.
But other faculty members dismissed their colleagues' complaints, saying that the faculty traditionally is unhappy with them.
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Meanwhile, University administrators say their hands are tied. The increasing number of evaluations are
necessary, they say, to comply with government regulation and that they have done all they can to raise salaries.
Both nationally and locally, the most common complaint voiced by the faculty concerns the dramatic drop in the enrollment.
THERE IS NO doubt that inflation has hit university professors hard. A recent Time magazine study indicated that of about 20 professions surveyed, university faculty had lost the most ground to inflation during the last decade.
The magazine article reported that the average professor had lost 17 percent of his salary's buying power between
Many KU faculty members are upset that there may not be an end in sight. a recent effect by Gov. John Carlin to give the faculty at Regent's institutions in Kansas a 7 house committee last month when a House committee cut the proposed line.
UNIVERSITY FACULTY were angered by the cut, FacEx responded by passing a resolution condemning it and asking that the full House restore the cut when the budget is reviewed later this year.
But some professors assert that even the 7 percent increase was inadequate to cover last year's inflation rate, which neared 10 percent.
Some faculty members think that the salary, problem is the primary cause of the slums in morale.
"There was an inevitable lewdness because the Legislature cut the increase," Gerhard Zuther, professor of English and president of the faculty council, said yesterday. It sounded to inflation is much of the reason for the depression."
Frances Heller, professor of political science and former vice chancellor for academic affairs, also said he thought
"FACULTY SAY ARE'T things great when enrolment is expanding and resources are pouring in," Heller said. "But when they are battling to hold their own and the op-portunity to continue a continuous提升, then the faculty are dissatisfied."
But other faculty members say they are concerned about more than money.
Eric M. Wright, professor of psychology, said the salary problem was only the latest of a number of concerns that have been raised about him.
"The salary is a meaningful consideration but it is not the most discouraging thing," Wright said.
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Med scholarships may be limited
Tuesday, March 6, 1979
By PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Kansas Senate tentatively approved a bill yesterday that would limit the number of scholarships available to Kansas students at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Senate voted 20-16 to allow the Legislature to appropriate money for the scholarship program each year, beginning in the fall semester of the school year. A final vote is expected today.
State Sen. Michael Johnston, D-Parsons,
said that changing the number of
scholarships available each year would
create problems for students.
"The students need to know precisely what the rules are," Johnston said. "I don't think it's fair for the students to enroll and pay them. We have money there will be for the scholars."
UNDER A program established last year,
students receive a year's tuition for each
semester.
student at the Med Center is eligible to receive a scholarship.
There are 426 students enrolled in the scholarship program this year, about four times the number expected by the Legislature.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary of KU, has estimated that the program will
The bill, which was sponsored by Johnston, originally called for abolishing the
Johnson said that the program was too expensive and would not keep enough
"It's my view that a substantial number of those doctors are going to pay their bills."
JOHNSTON'S BILL was amended by State Sen. Wini Winter, R-Otahoma, to limit
If a student does not practise in Kansas after he graduates, he must repay his学费 by making a payment to the school.
the scholarships available, rather than abolish the program.
Winter said that the program should be continued to help alleviate the shortage of teachers.
State Sen. Leroy Hayden, D-Satanta, said, "I think it can clearly be seen that any money spent on scholarships in Kansas is money well spent."
State Sen. Franklin Gaines, D-Augusta,
that more time was needed to see the
faults of the program.
"Have we already solved the doctor shortage problem in Kansas?" Games
Jim Hamilton, president of the Medical Student Assembly at the Med Center, said he would not be in attendance.
"I THINK it's very unfair to raise the students' tuition and then to tell them they need to work harder after the vote. " It seems we're in the middle of a political bailout. We're the pawns
Last March, the Kansas Board of Regents nearly tripped the medical school tuition, raising it from $1,125 to $3,000 a year for non-residents to $2,000 to $3,000 a year for non-residents.
Hamilton has said that a change in the scholarship program would not affect the lawsuit brought by 243 medical students and faculty, claiming the tution was illegal.
Winter said that if the number of scholarships were limited, the KU administration would set up guidelines for giving scholarships.
David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said last week that the scholarships probably would be awarded on the basis of performance. Legislature limited the scholarship money
"The details would be established by the KU Med Center officials." Winter said. "Just as they control who they accept to attend, they will control who gets a scholarship."
Dykes outlines future of merger
By BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Renorter
Under a proposed merger of KU men's and women's athletic programs, travel arrangements, training table facilities and coaches' fringe benefits would be combined with the Women's Athletic Advisory Board last month.
Dykes met with the board to discuss the proposed merger, which would become effective July 1) if approved
But Anne Levinson, board member and a member of the field hockey team, questioned when the two programs met.
"It one's thing to say it and another thing to see it," she said.
Dykes he could not say when the benefits would become comparable because funding would be a problem.
"WE'RE GOING to have to raise funds," he said. "The
Dykes said the $1.50 now allocated to women's athletics from student fees would be allocated again next year.
only money we receive now for women's athletics is from the state Legislature and student fees, it isn't enough."
Marian Washington, women's athletic director, said she was concerned about the amount of scholarship money the university received.
Under a five-year program with the Williams
Educational Foundation, scholarships for women will be $150,000.
This year they received $67,500.
This Year we receive $100.
We'll need at least $500,000 to award the maximum
amount possible to a MAXI brand.
men's athletic director, would be director of intercollegiate
athletics. He would be directly responsible for football and
basketball, the business office, sports information, the
Williams Fund and special projects.
The AIAW is the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
WASHINGTON WOULD be associate director in charge of non-revenue sports and a sports mediciner program.
Mike Harper, former student body president and a member of the board, said he was concerned that only Marcum was responsible for the business aspects of the school, and that Washington would not share those responsibilities.
But Charles Oldfather, a board member, said that was why he approved the plan.
"It puts the monkey on one man's back," he said
Del Shankar, executive vice chancellor, announced plans for the merger last week. Under the plan, Bob Marcum,
Olfather said a past problem had been that women's abilities were the responsibility of the University administration, and not the students.
End of grant would cut Audio Reader worker
Gary Marshall, rehabilitation program director for Audio Reader at the University of Kansas, understands the handicapped people he works with.
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Marshall, blinded in a car accident when he was 20, works for Audio Reader, which helps him process news and entertainment for the visually and physically handicapped and elderly
Marshall said recently that the state and federal grants that had improved the system of texting during years may no longer be available. In 1977, Audio Reader was awarded an innovation grant.
The three people who would continue working at Audio Reader would be the director, the assistant director and the operations manager, she said.
"When that grant runs out, we will go
Because of this, Marshall and several other employees of Audio Reader may be required to register.
But Marshall, 33, may face another challenge in August—finding a new job.
ROSIE HURWITZ, director of Audio Reader, said, "Our budget is only big enough to pay three people."
The Audio Reader program, which broadcasts more than 90 hours a week, includes an early morning reading of the Topeka Daily Capital and the Kansas City Times and readings from the current best seller, mystery, fiction and nonfiction
forward, but we are not sure we can provide the same content in the future."
Audio Reader, the second oldest radio reading service in the country, began in
Marshall said, "The signal range is about a 65-mile radius from Lawrence."
Marshall said that when the service began, Audio Reader had about 1,000 listeners. However, since the service was overloaded, there are about 4,000 to 5,000 listeners.
Along with the receivers, Audio Reader also provides monthly program schedules to the handicapped.
JAN SUMMERS, secretary at Audio Reader, said of the 1,400 programs distributed, 150 were in braille.
Programs are broadcast to the houses of the handcapped free, using special radios supplied by Audio Reader. The broadcasts, based on a subcarrier of the KANU radio station.
However, Marshall said that there had been a tremendous growth in the service and that cable hook-ups allowed the programs to be broadcast to Kansas cities including Manhattan, Great Bend and Hays.
"I audition the volunteers and make sure that their reading ability is accurate."
VOLUNTEERS are responsible for recording taped passages from books. The tapes later are broadcast as a daily series on the radio.
Marshall said that part of his job was interviewing and selecting volunteers for Audio Reader.
Marshell said he was unemployed for a year before he was hired at Audio Reader. Marshell, a former baseball player for the Boston Astros, has a varied background.
He said he had received a teaching degree from Washburn University and a degree in social welfare from Wichita College. He worked as a salesman for two companies.
Marshall said he had no definite plans if his job were not continued at Audio Rock.
Blind Director
Gary Marshall, who has been blind for thirteen years, is the rehabilitation program director for the Audio Reader
Staff photo by BARB KINNE
program at the University of Kansas. Marshall's seeing eye
course is next to him at the Audio Reader office on West Campus.
John W. Sloane