Wednesday, July 2. 1986
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Planning board OKs permit for ski resort
Last week the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission approved the request for a conditional-use permit to allow for the construction of a ski area outside Lawrence.
If the Kansas City Ski Co,
receives all the necessary permissions
in the next month, Lawrence
residents may be able to ski Mont Bleu by Dec. 10. Mont Bleu is four
miles southeast of Lawrence.
Marcus McCloud, a general partner in the company, spoke to the advisory planning board and described the site plans and advantages. McCloud said his group would help him effort to travel to Kansas.
The plan calls for three ski trails, two lifts and a large snow-making operation.
I-school seeks dean
The committee, which will meet today to choose its chairman, will create advertisement for the position and judge the candidates.
A search committee has been organized to find a new dean of journalism.
Mewmbers of the committee are: Tim Bengtson, associate professor of journalism; Michael Davis, dean of law; Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department; Dana Leibengood, associate dean of journalism; Bruce Linton, professor of journalism; Calder Pickett, professor of journalism; Adrienne Rivers-Warbagha, assistant professor of journalism; Susanne Shifrin, associate professor of law; Willow student records clerk for journalism; Robert Wellington, publisher of the Ottawa Herald; George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs; Frank Ybarrna, Topeka senior; and Karen Neilson, Stoux City, Iowa, senior.
Budig awarded rank
Mary Wallace, professor and assistant dean of journalism, will act as administrative aide to the committee.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig recently received notice that he had been promoted one grade in the Air National Guard from brigadier general to major general.
general. The highest rank awarded a guard officer is the two-star major general.
The date for the official promotion ceremony has not been announced.
Budig has been active in the Air National Guard for more than 22 years and was made a general in Alaska. Budig is from West Virginia and Kansas.
KU gets high rating
The University of Kansas received the highest score of any state school in a recent report on undergraduate education.
The latest edition of the "Gourman Report: A Rating of Undergraduate Programs" gave KU a rating of 4.41 on a scale of zero to five, with zero the worst and five the best.
Weather
The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies today and warm conditions. Highs mainly in the 80s Winds should be light and
Mostly clear tonight with lows in the 60s. Tomorrow will be most sunny and warmer, with highs in the middle 80s.
Hot temperatures are expected for Independence Day weekend. The forecast calls little or no highs in the 90s, lows in the middle 70s.
From staff and wire reports.
Regents approves 1988 budget increase
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a budget last week that would boost faculty and staff salaries by 8 percent in fiscal year 1988.
By DeAnn Thomas
Staff writer
The budget, which will go to the Legislature next year, would increase salaries for faculty and staff at all Regents schools.
The board also approved a 1 percent increase for the retirement program, a 1 percent increase in utilities and a 1 percent increase in other operating expenses.
"The Regents adopted a progressive budget for the University of Kansas," Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday. "It is a budget which
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said Monday that he was pleased the Regents recommendations were supportive of the faculty and of maintaining high-quality resources for students.
would permit the University to meet many important needs of our faculty and students, while encouraging needed economic development."
"The proposed budget indicates that the Regents recognize the importance of supporting the faculty as best we can — we haven't in the past years — and the students' needs for good resources." Cobb said.
Budig said he was especially pleased with the board's recognition of the importance of adequate levels of
compensation for faculty and staff.
Stanley Kolpik, executive director of the Regents, said he was optimistic about the proposed budget's gaining legislative approval.
"If it (the budget) was not reasonable and defensible, I would never have recommended it," Koplik said Monday.
Budig said, "It is essential that the University community now unite behind the Regents in support of their budget prooosal."
At the meeting, Koplik told Budig and other Regents school presidents that Kansas might be one of 11 states that could expect a windfall of surplus money if new federal tax proposals were passed. Koplik said the
Regents and the university staffs should push hard to get the desired budget next year.
A plan to enforce positivity legislative liaisons was given to Budig and the university presidents. The plan included having the member schools contact regional legislators through community, campus or individual meetings to inform them on issues affecting all Regents schools and to develop alumni contact with persons in the Legislature.
In other action, the Regents settled the question of Budig's raise by giving him a greater salary-increase than he wanted.
Budig did not want the 5.2 percent raise the Regents gave him — raising
his salary to $101,000 — because the faculty only received a 2.5 percent raise. He had said he would donate anything more than that, $2,600, to the Kansas University Endowment Association for student scholarships.
Budig deserves the raise because of the excellent "-b" he has done running the University, Kopilik said. This is reflected in the 5.2 percent raise.
I do not believe the chancellor should receive more than the 2.5 percent appropriated by the Legislature for faculty." Budig said. "The state must do better by the faculty in the year ahead.
Cheers
Hundreds of pompon girls from around the Midwest line up recently in Drill Team Camp held this week. The camp is conducted every summer at Allen Field House. The girls were learning new routines at the Superstar KU.
Renovated house gets historic status
Staff writer
By Karen Schmidt
Staff writer
Last October, the house at 833 Tennessee St. was just another in a string of decrepit structures waiting to be condemned.
But today the renovated house, known as the Charles Duncan House, takes passers-by back in time to an
The exterior was weather worn. Inside, the house was filled to the ceiling with newspapers and storage boxes and teeming with cobwebs.
"I feel very strongly on this matter."
elegant Lawrence of the late 19th century.
The house, which was built by merchant Charles Duncan in 1869, is the newest Douglas County addition to the city. It is part of Historic Places as of June 1.
Don Bushell, professor of human development, and his wife, Sherrill, a magazine editor, restored the two feet of an elephant that could fit the register's specifications.
preserve as much of the original structure as possible, replacing only the irreparable boards and framework. Any structural changes made must also be reversible in the future.
1. today the exterior of the house appears as it did 117 years ago except for a veranda, which was removed in the early 1900s. The facade is distinct to the form of its prominent papaya-like tower and detailed gingerbread woodwork.
To do this, the Bushells had to
In May, after a delay due to a fire in the back of the house, the Bushehells were ready to rent to prospective tenants.
"From day one, when my parents bought this house, we had people walking up to the front door asking for tours, so I knew we would have to walk up there," said Kristen Bushell, daughter of the owners and a sophomore.
Most of the occupants of the house's two apartments are students.
'Right man' becomes education dean
By Evan Walter Staff writer
The new dean of education said Friday that he was excited about moving his office to Bailey Hall.
Edward Meyen left his office in Strong Hall as associate vice chancellor of research, graduate student and faculty, to become dean of education yesterday.
"We have a good faculty." Meyen said. "The School of Education is a little bit like the community of Lawrence. It's a well-kept secret.
"It ranks first or second among professional schools at the University of Kansas in the area of sponsor grants and contracts through grants and contracts."
"The faculty members are extensively involved in providing service to state and local agencies.
"In the next few years, one of my goals will be to attract top faculty members who not only are good teachers, but who also are interested in pursuing research relative to the teaching process," he said.
Meyen said he would encourage faculty members to continue their involvement in research.
After a year as interim dean, Paul Haack, associate dean of graduate studies, said that he was satisfied with the job. Even yeen was the right man for the job.
"He's very able," Haack said.
"He's energetic, and the job will re
quire that in the decade ahead. He's up-to-date on what's happening in education and technology. He knows this state and the University. He's the right man. He's in the right position, and it's the right time."
Meyen has been on the KU faculty since 1973 and has been the associate vice chancellor for the past eight years.
He received his bachelor's degree in elementary education and his master's in special education from Colorado State College, now the University of Denver. Greely. He received his decolate from the University of Iowa.
"The dean is a kind of spokesman for education in the state," Haack said.
The dean must provide academic leadership and be responsible for the
management of the school's resources, Haack said.
Meyen said high quality students were attracted to KU's five-year education program.
"We have a major obligation as a University that trains teachers to create the kind of conditions that will attract quality students."
Some of these conditions, he said, would be the refining of curriculum to make it more challenging for students; the recruiting and retaining of good faculty members; and the improvement in the opportunities for teaching.
Renovation considered for Quigley
By James Larson
Staff writer
winter
Field at the University of Kansas could be on the threshold of extensive renovations, and Floyd Ternule couldn't be happier.
"This is something we've needed for 30 years," said Temple, assistant athletic director in charge of facilities.
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation is considering a plan to expand the seating at the baseball stadium from 600 to 1,500. Constructed by women and women's restrooms, a press box, concessions area and lighting.
CONSEQUENCES that Temple said the changes would make Quigley the best baseball facility in the Big Eight.
Walter Hicks Associates, Architects and Planners, 3200 Mesa Way, is preparing sketches and specifications for the renovation and will open the construction project to local bidders this week. The stadium renovations are expected to cost $205,000. Another $125,000 would be designated for lighting if it can be worked into the plans.
Temple said he remembered playing baseball for Kansas in 1950 when the field was between the football field and the Kansas Union. The shower room, which was under the stands, was heated by a gas jet inside a drum. The players often huddled around it to stay warm.
In 1857, the Jayhawks began playing baseball on Quigley Field. When the field needed an outfield fence, Temple and five other men erected one from discarded bleachers salvaged from the football stadium.
The bleachers at Quigley were taken from Allen Field House this year after the field house was renovated.
"We've never had anything to make it a comfortable and working facility." Temple said. "There have been few problems, but now anything we've needed."
tiny temple. Temple said that he would like to see the ballpark ready to go by next season.
The proposal to refurbish the field began when a donor indicated a desire to promote the IACA project. The donor would not reveal the name of the donor.
Lee ice, assistant baseball coach, said Iowa State, Nebraska and Kansas were the only Big Eight schools without lights. Ice said lights would make it easier to play at home and more student and community interest in Jayhawk baseball.
Better facilities would really create an atmosphere of baseball," he said.
Ice said that according to the National College Athletic Association, the Big Eight baseball pitchers are second only to those of the Pac-10.
John Hart, KU outfielder, said a player sometimes would choose a school based on its stadium and the support of the fans.
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