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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Details, page 2
Tuesday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
April 21, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 137
(USPS 650-640)
Unions compete to gain support of KU's faculty AAUP better suited,prof says Prof says KNEA is best bet
By BENIAMIN HALL
Staff writer
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors should represent a faculty union if one is formed on campus because the AAUP has much experience in higher education, the group's president says.
"The AAUP has a long history of supporting individual faculty rights." Robert Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research and president of the group, said last week
"We would do a better job of representing those rights than a union that represents mostly elementary and high school teachers," he said.
Hohn was referring to the Kansas National Education Association, the other group likely to appear on a ballot in the fall when the faculty votes on whether to organize into a union.
KNEA already has collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. Hohn said his group had almost enough signatures.
"We're close to our number." he said.
"We're close to our number," he said. A faculty union might make it easier for faculty to become involved in administrative decisions. Hohn said.
"College faculty are interested in having their voices heard. That can lead to contentment."
Hohn said the AAUP, which was founded in 1910, had served as a union representative at about 30 universities during the past 10 years. Among the schools are Rutgers University, the
University of Connecticut, the University of Cincinnati and Wayne State University in the state of Ohio.
"Traditionally, AAUP has defended individual faculty concerns about promotion, tenure, et cetera," Hohn said. "One of the beliefs of the organization is that faculty should be involved in the decision-making process as much as possible.
"A lot of people felt we weren't getting that involvement."
Hohn said some faculty members thought they weren't being consulted by the administration on decisions that would affect the faculty.
But the present relationship between the administration and the faculty isn't a bad one, and the AAUP doesn't want to become an adversary of the administration, Hohn said.
"We hope it isn't that kind of a relationship." I think it would be more of a psychological bond than a marriage.
Although a faculty union would give faculty members a louder voice in decision making, it probably would not have much effect on salaries. Hohn said.
"I don't think anybody thinks that just because we have collective bargaining there's going to magically be more money available. I don't think it will increase the size of the pie. But it may allow us to distribute the pie differently," he said.
See AAUP, p. 6, col. 3
Editor's note: This is the second in a five-part series on the possible formation of a faculty union at the University of Kansas. Today's stories explain the approaches of the two prominent groups vying to represent KI faculty.
Tomorrow: How a faculty union could affect students.
■ Thursday: The effects a faculty union has had at Pittsburg State University.
Friday: The all-faculty forum on collective bargaining.
Faculty union issue
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
KU's affiliate of the Kansas National Education Association should represent a faculty union if one is formed on campus because KNEA is committed to collective bargaining, a union organizer said last week.
Clifford Griffin, a professor of history who is promoting KNEA as the representative of a faculty union, said KNEA had been thinking about forming a KU union since 1982.
"This discontent we have now is nothing new," he said.
Griffin said the University of Kansas needed a faculty union to gain equal stature with the Board of Regents to bargain collectively about matters that concern faculty.
A union would strengthen faculty governance by forcing the administration to consult with the faculty before making decisions, Griffin said.
"But the union movement is not a movement which is antagonistic to either the Board of Regents or the University administration," he said.
Griffin said KNEA sent a group of organizers to KU in 1982 to introduce faculty members to the idea of collective bargaining.
"Some of us expressed very strong interest in forming an affiliate of KNEA, and we did," he said.
KNEA sent organizer Tom Madden to Lawrence in 1986 to help coordinate collective
bargaining efforts. Griffin said union efforts at KU had been more vigorous since Madden's arrival.
Griffin said that although he disliked the term "flagship," which has been used to refer to leading research universities, a faculty would put KU "in the vanguard in that sense."
"With the exception perhaps of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, there are not too many institutions that compare to KU that are organized," he said.
Griffin said the American Association of University Professors didn't have the lobbying power or the negotiating experience of KNEA.
The AUP is the other group likely to appear on a ballot this fall in a vote to determine whether KU's faculty members want a union, and if so, which group they want to represent them in negotiations.
Griffin, an AAUP member, said he thought the AAUP was not committed to collective bargaining.
"The national AAUP organization is very badly divided on the question of desirability of collective bargaining," he said.
"AAUP has never taken a substantial leadership role in seeking support for faculty," he said. "They are, in my opinion, far too cooperative."
Bottom Line $156 over budget, may lose seats
See KNEA, p. 6, col. 5
Staff writer
By LISA A. MALONFY
The Student Senate Election Review Board fined the Bottom Line coalition $150 and found them to over budget on their audit night.
The coalition's presidential and vice presidential candidates and all the winning senators on the coalition could lose their seats.
At the Kansan's deadline, the board had not yet voted on whether to revoke all the coalition's Senate seats. The Senate Rules and Regulations says the board has the power to revoke the seats if an audit is filed without listing all campaign expenditures.
But Sue Glatter, chairman of the board, said, "Basically, we can do what we want. It's a 'may' not a 'shall.'"
Stephanie Quincy, left, and Jason Krakow, student body vice president and coalition, Bottom Line, was fined for receiving a printing discount president-elect, attend a meeting of the Election Review Board. Their unavailable to other coalitions.
The First Class coalition prompted the $150 fine by complaining that Bottom Line had received a special discount on the printing of its posters.
Jason Krakow, Bottom Line presidential candidate and student body president-elect, said his coalition had paid about $350 for the three-color posters from Schifman Printing Co. in Kansas City, Mo.
Krakow said two past Senate coalitions, Common Sense and Cheers, had their posters printed at the same step and had received student discounts.
But Brian Kramer. First Class vice-presidential candidate, charged in a letter to the elections committee that the actual price of printing should have been about $200 more. He wrote that he had received estimates from other print shops and that none gave him a discount as large as the one Schifman Printing gave to Bottom Line.
Kramer also said in the letter that Bottom Line had received the discount because Bob Schifman, the owner, was a friend of Krakow and Brady Stanton, outgoing student body president.
Schifman said, "The same discounts are available for grade schools, high schools, colleges, churches or temples."
He said that his company did not solicit business from such groups because it couldn't afford to but that they were willing to take non-profit groups that asked for it.
But Michael Foubert, graduate senator, said. "This was a discount not readily available to the general public. This was a case of someone knowing someone, although I'm not at all certain that this was an intended violation."
The board then added $200, the amount of the discount, to Bottom Line's campaign expenses, which increased over its limit of $112.69 per booklet $156.43.
But he said, "If you don't know whether there's a law and you choose to act without investigation or consultation, you suffer the consequences."
Stephanie Quincy, Bottom Line's vice-presidential candidate and student body vice president-elect, said the nine election complaints filed by
the First Class coalition against Bottom Line represented a takeover attempt by First Class.
Seven of the complaints were thrown out by the committee last week for insufficient proof. The coalition also will have to pay another $15 fine for failing to print "paid for by Bottom Line" on a set of handouts.
The $165 fine must be paid before
the end of the fiscal year, June 30,
said Missy Kleinholz, committee
member.
Jeff Mullins, First Class presidential candidate, denied that the complaints were part of a takeover.
Kramer said the board seemed reluctant to throw out the entire Bottom Line coalition, even though that option existed.
Public debates trafficway's environmental impact
Flanked by huge posts detailing the proposed south Lawrence trafficway, the engineers preparing an environmental impact statement for the project spent two hours last night explaining it.
By TODD COHEN
Then, for the next two hours, citizens spoke back. And in the front row, Douglas County and Lawrence elected officials listened.
Staff writer
Environmentalists complained that the trafficway's proposed route
About 250 people came to South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St., to attend the final public hearing on the trafficway, or bypass.
would endanger two rare plant spe-
cies, Baker Wetlands and a wildlife refuge.
But trafficway supporters said the project was necessary to alleviate Lawrence traffic congestion, specifically on 23rd Street. They also said it would promote economic development.
The trafficway would run 14.3 miles around Lawrence's south border, from Kansas Highway 10, on the city's east side, to a new interchange on Interstate 70, on the city's west side.
Environmentalists previously had focused their complaints almost exclusively on the roadway's possible effects on the wetlands, which is home to the endangered Northern Crawfish frog.
But at the hearing, concerns were raised about another area, Elkin's Meadow, a pasture northwest of that that would be bisected by the road.
Environmentalists said the road would destroy large fields of the rare Mead's milkwood and prairie white-finned orchid.
Ken Lassman, Lawrence resident, asked why the trafficway would go through Elkin's Meadow and not a pasture to the west already zoned and platted for residential development.
"It was an economic decision to lessen the impact on that plat." answered Frank Hempen, county public works director, who did not specify what the economic effect would be.
Hempen also said that the route had been put through the pasture before the county was aware of the rare plants and that Lassman's concerns would be considered when a final route was decided upon.
a recent citizen petition that forced a referendum on a proposed downtown mall, Kindersch said trafficway officials sign petitions to force a public vote.
However, Kelly Kindscher,
Lawrence resident, appeared to be in
no mood for compromise. Alluding to
Roger Boyd, wetlands director,
said the trafficway route should be
moved west to miss Elkin's meadow.
"The entire bypass process has been very frustrating for me," he said.
Several other residents and business and industry representatives said the trafficway would protect the environment in the long run.
Ron Renz. Lawrence resident, said the trafficway would limit growth to the north and west side of Lawrence. Development is restricted by zoning laws in the floodplains that ring Lawrence to the south and east.
Court rejects Linnas' bid to stay in U.S.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Karl Linnas, facing a Soviet death sentence on charges of supervising Nazi concentration camp executions, was to be deported to the Soviet Union yester- days. A Justice Department turned down his bids to remain in the United States, government sources said.
Linnas was taken from his New York jail cell by federal agents and government sources, commenting on condition of anonymity, said he was being flown to the Soviet Union, after a stopover in Czechoslovakia.
He was to be deported from the United States hours after the Supreme Court rejected Linnan's bid to delay his deportation while his lawyers hunted for another country to accept him.
Richard Ollison, executive assistant at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, told reporters that Linna left the prison after being released. He was not told where Linnna was taken.
Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service "were very secretive about the entire move," he said.
In Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meele III told reporters that a decision on deportation might be announced before the end of the day. "James was shy two votes as the justices refused, 6-3, to extend an order," Ms. Meele said.
The court's action came on the heels of Justice Department efforts to find a country, other than the Soviet Union, to accept Linnas.
Linnaeus was tried in absence in the Linnaeus Union in 1962, and was sentenced to death.
An arrangement had been made to send Linas to Panama. But last week the Panamanian government said the plan was suspended indefinitely after it was disclosed by the World Jewish Congress. Marijulia Lloyd, the Panamanian Embassy's press attach, said yesterday that her government would make a decision in the next few days.
Linnas, 67, has been held at the New York City jail since April 1986.
INSIDE A stroke of luck
The Kansas men's tennis team started preparing for the Big Eight Conference Tennis Championships with an 8-1 victory over Southwest Missouri State yesterday. See story page 11.
Drug war
The United States is losing its war on drugs because the fight is full of empty rhetoric, Mark Potter, an ABC News correspondent, said yesterday during his speech on drugs in the United States. See story page 3.