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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, April 29, 1986
Series needs big names
Senate seeks funds for lectures
By Barbara Shear Staff writer
staff wham
Student Senate is trying to request a lecture series that would bring to campus such noted politicians as Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy and New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
But all four politicians were asked to speak at the University of Kansas and recently sent rejection letters.
David Epstein, student body president, said yesterday that the Senate was trying to establish a lecture series, comparable to the Kansas State University Landon Lecture Series, that would draw big name personalities to speak at KU!
Peter Ueberroth, the commis-
moner of baseball, is coming to KU on Thursday to speak in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"Everyone thinks its just peaches and cream, but it's a fluke that Uebberhorn is coming and that he should not ignore him, nor spoke here," Epstein said.
"We need a rich person to donate money. This is one of the rare cases where money solves the problem. We don't have a prestigious name either and we need a big name."
The cost of establishing the lecture series would be around $500,000. Epstein said. Epstein and Marie Karran, who wrote a resolution asking Senate to take $25,000 from its unallocated account and put it
toward the development of the lecture series. The bill was approved by the Finance Committee on Wednesday.
The Kansas University Endowment Association also has been asked by Senate to help with a fundraising drive, Jim Martin, senior vice president of the Endowment Association, said he had met with Senate members on issues for fundraising but the project would first need to be approved by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
The cost for speakers to come on campus ranges from $3,000 for President Reagan to $50,000 for Richard Nixon or Henry Kissenger, former secretary of state, Epstein said.
Roof pests disregard oust effort
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writer
staff write in dropouts are not a pretty sight on campus, but the birds continue to call campus home despite the actions taken to evict them.
Bob Porter, assistant director of plant maintenance at KU, said recently that pigeon droppings defaced many buildings on campus and cleaning up the mess kept maintenance crews busy all year.
"There's always been a problem with pigeons." Porter said.
Metal contraptions were fixed on windowsills and ledges to stop the
birds from perching on their favorite spots on Dyche, Spooner and Strong halls. Forter said the barriers were costly and ineffective.
Some birds relocated to other buildings. Others were more resourceful and built their nests on the barriers, said Richard Johnston, professor of systematics and ecology.
Johnston has been researching the nesting and breeding patterns of pigeons. In the past, he has trapped them on rooftops and placed them on farms outside Lawrence.
This is a slow but humane process,
Various poisons may be used by drive the birds away or kill them, Johnston said poisons weren't use on campus or in town.
he said
"We would need a license to use it," said Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscaping.
The poison must be put in the pigees' food, but KU's birds feed at the grain elevators in North Lawrence.
"The main issue seems to be psychological." Johnston said. "A lot of people don't think it's possible to live around pigeons and be happy."
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Increase in faculty salaries fell short of Regents request
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About 3 a.m. yesterday morning two Lawrence lawmakers ran into each other filling their gas tanks in the dark.
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
The cold wind blew at the backs of the weary legislators, but State Rep. Jessie Branson and State Sen. Wint Winter Jr. chatted quickly about the last minutes of the legislative session before going home.
"We get so busy we can't even fill our gas tanks," Branson said.
The sales tax endurance test ended in Sunday morning's wee hours and left Lawrence lawmakers divided on how the chambers fulfilled the University of Kansas' financial wishes.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said the legislative result fell short of the Board of Regents request for an increase in faculty salaries. But this year's accomplishments laid footing for future action.
accomplishments I have made." "We did reasonably well with faculty salaries, but I'm not fully satisfied with that," Solbach said. "We are going to have to do better for our faculty. We need to look at higher education and recommend some good solid funding proposals."
"The fact that we have shored up the tax base leaves us in a position that we can move forward next year," Solbach said. "It puts us in a good position for the future."
Spokesmen for the Regents, which consists of the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, provide a 7 percent increase in unclassified faculty salaries to keep Kansas on top in academic
the Legislature approved a 2½-percent increase in salaries and a 1percent increase in the state's contribution to the employees' retirement fund. Faculty members now pay 5 percent of their salaries into the fund.
enthusiasm that lawmakers have approved the 1 cent increase in sales tax effective July 1, a move that is predicted to generate up to $2 million in revenue, the University can look forward to changes, he said.
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Solbach said the failure to reach a compromise for so
"We got a very good start on higher education governance, but we have a tremendous amount of work to do." Winter said. "In light of an economy gone in the trash barrel that's excellent news."
long on the sales tax situation kept the pay increase in limbo.
the pay situation for faculty at Winter, R-Lawrence, said this year's accomplishments were satisfactory considering the bleak condition of the state's economy.
"This simply was not the year when we can come in and justify a 7-percent faculty increase," Solbach said. "Sales tax was hanging there and it could have gone either way."
This summer a special legislative committee will study the pay situation for faculty, he said.
It would have been easy for lawmakers to simply cut salaries in such shaky times, he said.
"The quality of our faculty is one of the most important components of research and development of the state."
salaries in JDC family. Branson, D-Lawrence, said she was disappointed with the faculty salary outcome of a session committed to economic development.
But Branson said she was pleased with a measure that allocated more than $2 million to upgrade state clerical positions.
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