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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday
April 1, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 123
(USPS 650-640)
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
TOPEKA - The Kansas Legislature is expected to reorganize a state work-study program because of shortcomings in the way some universities, including KU, have carried out the program, some lawmakers said yesterday.
The state created the program to give students work experience in their field of study and help them make money while in school. The state program, which is different from the federal work-study program, pays half the cost of each student's salary to encourage private employers to hire qualified students.
The program began in 1983, but some lawmakers said that although some state universities had successfully developed the
program, others had not developed it adequately enough to spend the money allocated to it.
"Some of the programs at the universities are exceptional, but some are not," said State Rep. Denise Apt, R-Iola, chairman of the House Education Committee.
"We felt that the money wasn't being well spent," she said. "I think under the new program the money will go where it's most peeled."
Keith Nitcher, KU's director of business affairs, said the administrative costs of the work-study program were high compared to other student assistance programs, which had caused KU's difficulties with using all the money.
The University of Kansas program received $154,210 in fiscal year 1987. The University returned $28,000 of that to comply with Gov Mike Hayden's budget cuts, and the House Appropriations Committee earlier this spring cut an additional $30,000.
Apt said that Wichita State University had developed one of the best work-study programs and that KU's program was weaker than most.
The chairman of the appropriations committee, State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topека, said that if KU couldn't find use for the money, his committee could.
"It's not just having the money," Nilcher said. "It involves going out and getting
"I'm not saying they should spend it just because they've got it," he said. "But in light
of the precarious financial situation the state is in, we'll pick it up from here and put it there whenever we can."
Nitcher said the University had written a proposal to show the Legislature that KU had started or would start enough programs to spend all the program's allocated money in fiscal year 1988, which starts July 1. Hayden recommended that KU receive $150.05 in the program, but neither the House nor the Senate had voted on the recommendation.
Under the reorganization plan, which the House has approved, the Board of Regents would set up more specific guidelines to better develop the programs at state universities. The Senate is expected to approve the bill today, and Hayden is expected to sign it into law.
Up to now, universities received a lump sum from the state and then developed their own work-study programs. The Regents would be responsible under the bill for evaluating all state programs and determining where the money is needed most.
private contracts in the Lawrence area. The state has already cut back on administrative services."
"It's not our aim to set up strict guidelines for the universities." Apl said. "But we want to provide a better exchange of ideas between universities on how to develop the best program."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he wondered why KU had not created a work-study program adequate enough to use all the allocated money.
Winter said some lawmakers would question KU's need for money if it had not effectively used its money this year.
Surf's up
Alex Hergibo, Besançon, France, junior, rides the surf on the lawn east of Wescoe Hall. Hergibo was promoting the KU Sailing Club yesterday. The club will have an introductory meeting April 8.
Tests show victims weren't legally drunk
The Associated Press
Four KU students who were killed Friday night in a car-train accident north of Lawrence had been drinking alcohol but were not legally drunk, officials said.
Alan Sanders, director of pathology at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said yesterday that blood samples showed alcohol in all four victims but that the concentrations were below 0.1 percent.
Under state law, if the concentration of alcohol in the blood is 0.1 percent or more, a person is presumed to be under the influence of alcohol and incapable of driving safely.
Killed were Elizabeth "Betsy"
Dunlap, 21, Salina junior; Joel Grantham, 20, Overland Park sophomore;
Jenifer Jones, 19, St. Louis freshman; and Daniel McDevitt, 19, Salina sophomore.
The four students had left a Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity party and
were heading for a Chi Omega sorority barn party north of Lawrence when their car was struck by a northbound Union Pacific freight train.
Kansas highway patrolman J.D. Hall said authorities found several beer cans in a ditch near the four bodies and a punctured leather wine glove that did not determine whether the cans were in the ditch before the accident.
Investigators still do not know who was driving the car.
William Klassen, chief of the National Transportation and Safety Board field office in Kansas City, said an investigator from Denver flew to the accident site to interview railroad employees and law enforcement officers and to reconstruct the accident.
Despite Sanders' findings, Hall said he would wait for test results of other blood samples for yesterday to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory in Topeka.
Student fasts to urge KU divestment
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
A KU student says he won't eat until at least 50 alumni write letters asking the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies that do business in South Africa.
Michael Maher, Roeland Park senior, began a hunger strike at 5 p.m. yesterday in the Strong Hall rotunda.
Maher sat on the floor beneath a sign that said, "Hunger strike for divestment — I need 50 letters from alumni."
Alumni often contribute money to the University, so their opinions may be more persuasive. Maher said.
"The Endowment Association doesn't seem to take undergraduate concerns very seriously." he said.
Maher said that the letters, which should be sent to 2129 Ohio St., would be presented to the Endowment Association when all 50 had arrived.
Mahar said that he and others had been planning the hunger strike since
"Because of a number of personal traitors, it's been postponed until May."
November.
Maher said that he would sit in the Strong Hall rotunda between 4:30 and 6 p.m. most school days.
"Other than that, I'll be going about my regular student duties," he said.
On Nov. 4, 1985, Maher and four other students were arrested by KU police on charges of criminal trespassing when they refused to leave Chancellor Gene A. Budig's office after he asked them to leave. The court prosecuted the Endowment Association's investment in South Africa.
Maher also was one of a group of students who camped outside Youngberg Hall, the Endowment Association, leading on West Campus, in April 1986.
The Endowment Association responded by announcing that it would divest from companies that did not adhere to the Sullivan principles.
The Sullivan principles are a set of standards used to guide U.S. companies' investment in South Africa. The principles require that companies receiving investments agree to integrate their own workforce and equal employment practices and increase the number of non-whites in supervisory positions.
Maher said that companies used the Sullivan principles as an excuse to keep doing business in South Africa.
"They've been described as a license to kill, and I think that's accurate," he said.
Black employees in South Africa still live in segregated neighborhoods, and they don't have the right vote or to travel freely. Maher said.
"It's a surface improvement," he said.
The KU Alumni Association will not take a stand on whether the Endowment Association should divest, Fred B. Williams, executive
director and secretary, said yesterday.
"Our association does not address political, religious or other types of issues," he said. "We don't take responsibility. We simply report information."
"We have 37,000 plus members. We can't take a stand because ultimately we wouldn't be representing all of our members' interests."
The Endowment Association doesn't know how much it has invested in companies that do business with John Scarff, the director of John Scarff said yesterday.
"Our portfolio is in the hands of an outside agency, and it changes quick."
The Endowment Association may decide not to comment, he said.
"He's thinking about it," Scarfie said. "We're working on a statement."
Searffe said that Endowment Association president Todd Seymour wouldn't comment on Maher's hunger strike yesterday.
Crimson Girls' dancing attire offends some
Staff writer
By LAURA BOSTROM
As the music started during halftime of the KU-Notre Dame basketball game, 10 Crimson Girls shimmied out from gray trenchcoats, wearing electric red unitards with blue trunks and blue sequins sewn on the shoulders.
The Feb. 8 game was their last performance in the one-piece, full-length leotards. KU's athletic department told the squad they no longer could wear the unitids, Elaine Brady, spirit squad coordinator, said last week.
Gary Hunter, associate athletic director, said he had received several calls and letters questioning the performance and choice of attire
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board will evaluate the performances and attests to my appointing a review committee.
Barb Heck, Lawrence resident and KU alumna, was one of those people.
Heck said she reviewed the Notre Dame tape with Brady. She said the Crimson Girls' type of performance was more suited for
Three KU Crismon Girls show the electric red unititards that raised controversy. After several people questioned the squat's attire during performances, KU's Athletic Department asked the squat to stop wearing the unititards.
He said some people were concerned that some of the dance moves were in questionable taste and that the uniforms were "not very flattering to the young ladies."
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a dance performance at Murphy Hall than a KU basketball game.
"I feel they are fine athletes and very talented young women, but I'm really opposed to their uniforms — and the bump-and-grind," she said, referring to a particular movement.
"I think she means hip movements," said Dana Smith, a Crimson Girl.
The Crimson Girls say that they are dancers and that people need to understand their function.
See CRIMSON, p. 6, col. 3
INSIDE
The men's and women's track coaches and athletes, who recently kicked off their outdoor seasons, prefer outdoor track to indoor track. See story page 13.
.ow salaries contribute to high faculty turnover at KU
Outdoor fun
Many Eastern families choose Midwesterners to be their nammies because morals and discipline are important to Midwestern girls. See story page 8.
Nanny mania
Rv TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
It's not news that faculty salaries at the University of Kansas are low when compared with other large universities, but recent studies indicate just how low.
A study conducted by the office of institutional research and planning showed that in 1965-66 the average faculty salary was below the average of KU's six peer institutions. The average faculty salary is the Board of Regents, are the universities of Oklahoma, Iowa, North Carolina, Oregon and Colorado.
Robert Hohn, president of the American Association of University Professors and professor of education psychology, said last week that 80 percent of large universities in the country provided better compensation for their faculty than KU.
Marvin Burris, associate budget director for the Regents, said that in
fiscal year 1985-86 the average KU faculty salary was 91 percent of the average salary at KU's peer institutions, $34,917. KU's budget for other operating expenses, such as teaching supplies and equipment, was 65 percent of the average operating expense budget of its peers.
One result of the higher salaries, better fringe benefits and larger operating expense budgets available at other universities and private companies has been an increase in faculty turnover at KU.
Martine Hammond, director of Regents academic affairs, said the faculty turnover rate at Regents universities had jumped from an average of 5 percent to 7.2 percent in the last three years.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the turnover rate at KU also was on an upward trend.
Carolyn Kelly, assistant to the vice
'Salaries are a significant factor in the turnover rates at KU.'
Robert Lineberry dean of liberal arts and science
chancellor for academic affairs, said that in fiscal year 1984-85, of the 53 faculty members retired, died or left KU, 14 left for higher salaries or professional advancement. In fiscal year 1985-86, 17 of KU's 56 departing faculty left for higher salaries.
"Low salaries, combined with high inflation and underfunded operating expense budgets, will continue to cause the University problems in
Deans of schools within the University agree that salaries influence faculty performance.
recruitment and retainment of faculty," Kelly said.
"Salaries are a significant factor in the turnover rates at KU," said Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences. "But I think very few people leave only for a salary increase."
Lineberry said faculty turnover might be increasing because now KU also had to compete with private industry.
John Tolletson, dean of business,
said the school's accounting department had a 75 percent turnover rate between 1982 and this year. He said the high turnover had cost the school a lot of money in salary increases.
"During the same time period we increased the salary of assistant professors by 40 percent and the salary of associate professors by 45
Often, the state also loses research grant money when faculty leave KU.
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percent so we could attract people to KU and keep people here," he said.
According to the Regents, KU lost more than $7.5 million in grants since 1982 when departing faculty took grant money with them. More than $4.5 million was lost in 1984-85 when KU lost 87 research projects belonging to 11 exiting faculty members.
Hohn said the workload of departing faculty was divided among the four.
"The thing that most of us on campus are concerned with isn't the people who leave," he said, "but those who stay.
"So the individuals who stay find themselves with not only a low salary but also more work to do. Our concern is with the morale of the individuals who stay. Most of the people here are very dedicated, but there is a level of frustration."