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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
April 20, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 136
(USPS 650-640)
Faculty union issue may reach fall vote; pros, cons debated
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Last month's "Human Relations Week" produced a phrase that was misinterpreted by some KU faculty members.
Organizers of the event put the words "Together we're better" on buttons that were distributed on campus. Mel Dubnick, chairman of the organization, executive Committee, brought a bag of buttons to a SenEx meeting.
Dubnick was chuckling as he dropped the bag on a table. He said, "Everyone's asking, 'Are these the union buttons?' "
Faculty union, that is.
This semester, amid talk of dwiving University financing and growing faculty discontent, the issue of how to retain faculty union came to the forefront.
Union organizers have pushed the issue far enough that KU's faculty will probably vote in the fall on whether to form a union. Their vote will depend upon decisions with University administrators and the Board of Regents.
Although the issue was brought to a head just this semester, the opportunity to form a faculty union at KU has existed since 1979, when the state's Public Employee Relations Board determined who would be included in a KU faculty bargaining unit.
The board, a five-member panel appointed by the governor, determined that the bargaining unit would include all professors, associate professors, assistant professors, acting assistant professors, instructors and lecturers who work at least half time.
The unit would also include librarians, scientists, specialists and curators who work at least half time, and full-time assistant instructors to teach at least one regularly scheduled course during the academic year.
But the unit would not include people who also carry the title of
Editor's note: This is the first story in a five-part series on the possible formation of a faculty union at the University of Kansas. Today's story focuses on the process of forming a faculty union and a summary of the debate this semester for and against the proposed union.
- Tomorrow: Union organizers of the two prominent groups dying to represent KU faculty explain their approaches
- Wednesday: 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.
chancellor, dean, director, department head or department chairman. The School of Law faculty, which oversees all cases in court, also would be excluded.
In the past, the union issue never came to a vote.
But this semester, the Kansas National Education Association took a significant step toward forming a union by collecting the signatures of 30 percent of KU's 1,020 faculty members.
Tom Madden, a KNEA representative who carne to KU more than a year ago to organize a faculty union, said Friday that his group would present its signatures to the employee relations board that day.
Another group, the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, may be very close to the required number of signatures. Bob Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research and president of the group, said last week that
See UNION, p. 8, col. 1
Brandy Crouch, 6, Topeka, holds on to a lamp post in the flooded parking lot at Clinton Lake's Bloomington Park. The shoreline usually is about 70 yards where Crouch was standing yesterday afternoon.
Chris Modrow/KANSAN
Beaches at Clinton swamped by waters
Bv IOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
BLOOMINGTON — Cars vied with water for parking space yesterday and boats yielded to the wind as area residents swarmed to sunny, swollen Clinton Lake.
Topeka residents Mary Emerson and Jenny Snyder walked along the beach at Bloomington Park, but rainwater had pushed the lake past the beach into the parking lot. The beach was completely under water, and the water temperature was in the 50s.
"Once you get used to it," Emerson said, "it's not so bad."
Richard Sanders, fishery biologist for the Kansas Fish and Game Commission, said Clinton Lake was eight or nine feet above normal because of heavy March rains.
The beach at Bloomington Park may remain underwater for a while. Sanders said.
"With as much water as there is in the other reservoirs," he said, "I don't know when Clinton will be able to release some of its water."
Clinton is the last of the area lakes scheduled to release excess water into the Kansas River system, he said.
Jackie Zouch, Omaha, Neb,
junior, sat on a partially
submerged table in a flooded picnic
area Zoucha said she and her
father had heard that the area
was flooded before leaving
Lawrence.
"We came here because there is supposed to be a beach," she said. "We didn't think it would be quite this bad."
It might get worse. A cold front moving into the area could cause thundershowers late this afternoon and tonight, according to the
See CLINTON, p. 8, col. 3
Fee release process
KU expected $30 million tuition income for fiscal year 1987
3 Board of Regents requested $1.2 million of the $3.2 million in excess fees be returned to KU
A Gov. Mike Hayden recommended 75% ($53,500) of the Regents requested money be returned to KU.
5 The state House wrote a bill designed to return 50% ($635,000) of the Regents request $1.2
6 The state Senate elected the bill and supported its recommendation.
A joint committee was formed to work out the differences between the Senate and House. The committee voted 75% ( $953,000) to return it to KU.
8 The full House and Senate are expected to approve the committee's
Dave Eames and Bill Skeet / KANSAN
Legislators negotiate KU's budget package
BY CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
TOPEKA — The University of Kansas saw its budget raised and slashed in recent months as state lawmakers squabbled over spending, but in the end, the University made most of the money it wanted.
State House and Senate negotiators reached final compromises on Friday concerning KU's 1987 fee release, 1988 operating budget and fee release, and faculty and classified employee salary increases for fiscal year 1988.
However, some KU professors and Chancellor Gene A. Budg said they were disappointed with the small number of qualified employee and faculty salaries.
"It's apparent that our Legislature did an outstanding job." Budig said. "But it's essential that our faculty and staff do better next year if the Regents are going to keep good faculty and that loss is not in best interest of the people on the Board of Regents or the people of Kansas."
After four days of intense negotiations in a joint appropriations conference committee, House and Senate leaders worked out their differences and made these budget recommendations:
■ The immediate release of $653,000 of about $3.2 million in additional student fees KU collected this year because of increased enrollment. Of the students at 75 percent of the Board of Regents $1.2 million recommendation.
The restoration of Gov. Mike Hayden's 3.8 percent budget cut from fiscal year 1947, or 1988, adding $2 billion in 1988 operating budget starting July 1.
A special fee release of $635,612 for fiscal year 1988 based on estimates that present enrollment levels will increase. The release would be available July 1
A $110,000 credit from the state's general fund because of the University's energy conservation efforts.
A 3 percent increase in Other expenses, or general, payable expenses.
Changes in the present corridor
system of state university financing additional $1.7 million for KLU in 1899
The committee's recommendations are expected to be given final approval by the full House and should be released on April 29 from their recess.
A faculty salary increase of 3 percent beginning January 1, or an annual increase of 1.5 percent. A classified employee salary increase of 2 percent beginning January 1, or an annual increase of 1 percent.
The Senate had approved unanimously a 2.5 percent faculty salary increase for the entire fiscal year 1988. The House had recommended a 1.5 percent increase for the second half of the fiscal year.
The final 3 percent, half-year salary increase compromise was made with a 1 percent contribution to the faculty retirement fund and a Senate stipulation that more of the extra benefits be returned to the universities.
The leader of the house side, State Rep. Bunten, R-Topeka, said he was pleased with the compromise because it would leave a safe ending balance of about $150 million in the state's general fund.
"We met on even ground between the two sides," said State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Lenexa, leader of the Senate side of the conference. "I can't find anything wrong with the proposal, given each side's position."
"The state will be in a sound fiscal condition next year, thanks to the good work done on both sides of the Legislature this past week." he said.
"It's not going to do much to keep good faculty here or attract new students," he said, "needed," said Thomas Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy.
One KU professor said the statewide faculty salary increase, which would cost the state about $4 million, was more symbolic than beneficial.
"They should have the money to improve programs and buy equip-ment."
Budig said the changes in the corridor system would allow KU to better plan and coordinate its budget efforts, instead of the present annual process.
Funeral today for student killed Friday in car crash
Bv PAUL BELDEN
Yesterday, Easter Sunday, the crowd gathered for Mass at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center said a small prayer wishing the soul of Patrick B. Dooley godspeed to heaven.
Staff writer
Mr. Dooley, 20, Atchison sophomore, died about 8:30 p.m. Friday when his car hit a bridge abutment on Jefferson County Road 1045, commonly known as Wellman Road, and flipped over, landing upside down. He was driving north, about a mile and a half from the unincorporated town of Midland, when he struck the abutment.
Mr. Dooley was partially ejected
from his car, a 1977 Oldmobile fourdoor Cutlass, which then caught fire, the highway spokesman said.
A funeral Mass for Mr. Dooley will be at 10 a.m. today at St. Louis Catholic Church in Good Intent, an orestrated town northwest of Acklison.
Mr. Dooley loved music, and was an accomplished piano player, said Father Blame Schultz, music direc-tor at Benedictine College in Aitchison.
Schultz was a judge at a music contest that Mr. Dooley competed in as an Effingham High School senior.
Schulz said he remembered that Mr. Dooley was the overall winner of the tournament.
"He was certainly talented." Schultz said. "What a wonderful young man he was, in the brief time that I knew him."
Schultz said he would play the organ at Mr. Dooley's funeral.
His survivors include his parents, Thomas and Wilma Dooley, Atchison; three brothers, Dan Dooley, Atchison; Mike Dooley, Kansas City, Mo. and Tom Dooley, London, England; two sisters, Theresa Kiefer, Bristol, England; Mike Dooley, Atchison; and his maternal grandfather, William Sauer, Effingham.
Mr. Dooley will be buried after the Mass in the church cemetery.
Praise and criticism follow KU senator through four terms
ed trumpet in the high school band.
Staff writer
By LISA A. MALONEY
He has been called the Darth Vader of the Student Senate by some and has been compared to Socrates by others.
Michael Foubert, 31, has been alternately praised and criticized as the one man who has caused more chaos and controversy in his four terms as a graduate senator than every other senator combined.
"He's not a bad guy, but a lot of times he does take the 'opposite side of the Force,' " said Brady Stanton, out-going student body president. "Whether or not there is another side to an issue, Michael Foubert will always take it."
Sue Glatter, law senator, said, "I think the Senate is a better place for bipartisan relationships. I am a Mineo Flower."
overlook the substance of problems."
"It's good that the Senate has somebody who remembers what happened two years ago, but I think it would be better if we had rules and regulations that he tends to."
He also Rules and Regulates
put the Senate in a strangle hold.
Mark McMahon, off-campus senator, said, "As much as he aggravates me, if we didn't have somebody like him, we'd have to invent one."
"The majority of the time he does the school a great service because he's such an active senator. But God! I want to want to smack him!" Glatter said.
See FOUBERT, p. 8, col. 1
Since the fall of 1982. Foubert has established himself as a powerful presence in the Senate by supporting a variety of programs and issues.
But Jane Hutchinson, Nunemaker senator, said, "Michael acts as the conscience of Student Senate. He makes people look at the hard decisions, not just the popular ones."
He brings a huge, black box of a briefcase with him to most Senate meetings. Two feet high and 2 feet wide, it is filled with papers and
INSIDE
Record meet
Sixteen records were broken over the weekend at the 62nd Annual Kansas Relays, including the U.S. pole vault record, which Joe Dial broke. See complete Relays coverage pages 10 and 11.
Take a hike
People can learn about nature by going on hikes sponsored by the Lawrence Park and Recreation Center on the third Sunday of each month. See story page 5.