University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 25, 1987
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Local Briefs
Police say trail of blood may be, from suicide try
KU police found another trail of blood on campus Monday morning, which they think was left by a KU student who attempted suicide Sunday.
The trail led west from the sidewalk on the northwest side of Wescole Hall to Hoch Auditorium, where it crossed Jayhawk Boulevard to the sidewalk in front of Snow Hall, police said. From there it led west across West Campus Road and ended in front of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house, 1339 W Campus Road.
Police said that they thought that the two trails were left by the same person but that they could not be sure.
On Sunday, Watson Library staff discovered a trail of blood leading from the pay phone in the library's lobby to the curb of Jayhawk Boulevard outside the library.
Members of the sorority told police they knew nothing about the blood. The trail consisted of a small drop of blood every 7 to 10 feet, police said.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital reported to KU police Sunday night that a KU student had been treated for self-inflicted cuts and released earlier that night. Police said they had not talked to the student.
City candidates to debate tomorrow
The six candidates for the Lawrence City Commission will debate at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
The debate, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County, will be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 7 p.m. Sunday on Cable Channel 6.
Campus and Area
Committee hears proposed budgets
The Student Senate Finance Committee meet last night to continue hearings on student organizations' proposed budgets.
Organization scheduled to speak and the amounts requested were Black Student Union, $9,968; Engineering Student Council, $3,100; Environs, $900; Expressions Dance Club, $2,897; Free China Club, $1,344; German Club, $246; Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, $355; International Club, $7,275; Malaysian Student Association, $6,424; KU Amateur Radio Club, $1,920; KU Coalition for Peace and Justice, $451; KU Crew, $25,258; KU Cricket Club, $1,405; KU Forensics, $14,256; KU Hockey Club, $15,040; KU Women's Soc Club, $1,656; Men's Soc Club, $3,560; "Rocky and Bullwinkle" Fan Club, $12,357; Slightly Old Americans for Freedom, $400; Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction, $544; Society of Women Engineers, $316; Student Health Advisory Board, $1,319; Student Health Officer Organization, $3,659; and Women for Educating KU Society, $3,784.
Because of a reporter's error, two new Student Union Activities board members were not included in a story in yesterday's Kansan. The board members are Stephanie Malcy, Leawood junior, Fine Arts; and Steve Eddy, Lawrence junior, Special Events.
Correction
By BENJAMIN HALL
KU faculty salaries rank low, AAUP says
Four of five major U.S. universities pay their faculty members more than KU pays its faculty members, a group of KU professors is telling state legislators.
Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
The executive committee of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors recently wrote an open letter criticizing Kansas' support of higher education.
"The amount Kansas spends per capita for higher education has been declining," the letter said. "Kansas ranks 11th in per capita income, but 21st in spending for higher education."
Salaries and benefits for KU faculty members rank in the bottom fifth in four different countries.
categories, the letter T.
The ranking, which appeared in the April
"This means that 80 percent of all major universities in the country provided better compensation for their faculty employees than did the University of Kansas," the letter said.
1986 issue of Academe, the AAUP's bimonthly bulletin, compared faculty compensation at 170 universities of similar size and status.
universities of america
The ranking was divided into four categories: professor, associate professor, assistant professor and instructor.
Robert Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research and president of the KU chapter of AAUP, said the letter was sent to all Douglas County legislators and to several committee chairmen.
"The chapter felt we needed to make some kind of statement about the economic situation."
KU's peer schools are the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oklahoma and Oregon.
None of KU's five peer schools ranked in the
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ranking in the top fifth in one category and in the second fifth in three other categories, was the best among the peer schools.
bottom fifth in more than two categories, according to the ranking.
Faculty members in Kansas received an average raise of less than 3 percent.
Academe's study also said faculty members at 73 percent of the nation's major universities received salary raises of more than 5 percent last year.
"We are continually losing ground, and it will require a significant increment to make up for past underfunding," the letter said.
aren't improved the letter said.
Hohn said that 18 faculty members who left KU last year said they were leaving because they could receive better salaries elsewhere.
KU will lose faculty members if salaries
And faculty members who stay may face morale problems, the letter said.
Louisiana State University lost 100 faculty members from its Baton Rouge campus in two years because of continuing poor compensation, the letter said.
"When resources are limited, when positions of departed or retired faculty go unfilled, when needed supplies and equipment for classrooms and laboratories are unavailable, faculty members, like other employees, experience discouragement and its crippling effects," it said.
Faculty members should receive 8 percent raises next year and another 1 percent for retirement, the letter said.
Rabbi says hatred likely to continue
by JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
Hatred of Jews has existed for so long in history that there is no hope of curing it, a professor of history said last night.
Morris Margolies, courtesy professor of history, told about 40 people in the Kansas Union that a study of 4,000 years of Jewish history had convinced him that hatred of Jews would exist as long as Jews exist.
"Suppose we had an education of all non-Jews who are potentially anti-Semitic and gave them all the facts. Will that change the situation? My answer is no," he said.
Literary stereotypes have institutionalized anti-Semitism, said Margolies, who is rabbi emeritus of Beth Shalom Congregation in Kansas City, Mo.
"I I were to take all the books out of Watson Library, that room would not be large enough to hold all the anti-Semitic literature that has been written in the last 2,000 years," he said.
Hatred of Jews began as an aristocratic distaste. But with the emergence of Christianity and the crucifixion of Christ, Jews began to be portrayed as killers of God, Margolies said.
Anti-Semitism was given religious justification by the second century theologist Tertullian, who interpreted differences between Jews and Christians in terms of the Old Testament story of Cain and Abel.
According to the Bible, Cain offered God a sacrifice, which was refused. When Abel, his brother, offered God a sacrifice, it was accepted. That made Cain so envious that he murdered Abel. God punished Cain by condemning him to the life of a wanderer.
Tertullian wrote that Abel represented Christ and Cain represented the Jews, which seemed to justify banishing Jews from their homeland, Margolies said.
Ant-Semitic persecution reached a climax in Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945, when one of out of every three Jews living in Europe perished in the Holocaust, Margolies said.
By the 13th century, the Church under Pope Innocent III began to enact legislation against Jews. For the first time, Jews were forced to live in ghettos and forbidden to walk the streets without identification.
Jews always have thought that anti-Semitism would end when they had a nation, but the creation of Israel has not rid the world of anti-Jewish hatred. Margolies said.
Candidates debate issues at forum
LISA A. MALONEY
Staff writer
Improved student parking, a grade-apprais board and a complete overhaul of Student Senate financing procedures were just a few of the issues discussed at a Senate candidates' forum last night.
Student body presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Bottom Line, First Class and Synchronicity coilations answered questions from students and moderator Martie Aaron, campus co-director of the Associated Students of Kansas, at GSP-Corbin Hall.
Senate elections will be April 8 and 9.
Amy Rhoads/KANSAN
Jason Krakow, student body presidential candidate for the Bottom Line coalition, talks about his coalition's ideas while his running mate, Stephanie Quincy, listens. Candidates from the three coalitions running in the Student Senate elections April 8 and 9 discussed campaign issues last night in the lobby of GSP-Corbin Hall.
Jason Krakow and Stephanie Quincy, of the Bottom Line coalition, said they would like to establish a grade-applels board drawn from a pool of 10 faculty members, 10 students and 10 administrators.
Students who thought they had been given an unfair grade could appeal to the board instead of to their professor or the department chairman, Krakow said.
But Jeff Mullins, First Class presidential candidate, said such a plan had been defeated in the Senate before and was unpopular with faculty members.
Mullins and Brian Kramer. First Class vice presidential candidate, said that getting classes for students should be the Senate's first priority. To trim expenses, Kramer said, he and Mullings would not draw their $330 and $40-月 month Senate salaries. The Senate retreat also would be in Allen Field House instead of the Doubletree Inn, the site of January's retreat.
"If it's good enough for the KU basketball team, it's good enough for us." Kramer said.
but Krakow and Quincy said the salaries helped cover the expense of travel to Topeka and other parts
of the state and kept the offices from becoming elitist positions.
P Phillip Duff, Synchronicity presi- dential candidate, said, "We're not going to take salaries, we're goin' to earn them."
Glenn Shirtliffe, Synchronicity vice presidential candidate said, "You get what you pay for."
Duff and Shirtliffe said Senate rules, especially financing procedures, needed to be overhaired. Instead of "band-aid" approaches to financing activities, the Senate needs to create long-term finance-
ing plans of up to five years for student organizations and revenue code groups, they said.
Krakow said he would like library hours to be extended to give students a warm, safe place on campus to study. Students could use the SecureCab service to get home, he said.
The Bottom Line and Synchronicity coalitions stressed the need for better student parking. But the First Class coalition said students were more concerned with getting the classes they needed than with
where they would park. Kramer said First Class class would direct one of the Senate's money toward hiring extra teaching assistants
shortlife called First Class" plan "absurd" and "probably illegal." Krakow agreed and said the $28 activity fee students paid every semester should be spent on student activities, not tuition.
Election polls will be at Strong, Wescoe, Learned, Fraser and Summerfield halls and at the Burge and Kansas unions.
House debates community college control
Staff writer
By IOHN BUZBEE
Kansas could turn over governance of community colleges to the state Board of Regents without sacrificing communities' influence into the control of their schools, education officials in other states say.
A bill in the Kansas House of Representatives would shift control of community colleges from the state Board of Education to the Board of Regents. In states that have systems similar to the Kansas proposal, officials say their community colleges mostly are run locally.
But Tom Spencer, deputy director of the Arkansas Board of Higher Education, said yesterday, "If you're not careful, the two-year colleges lose their special mission."
The Arkansas state board coordinates all higher education, but lets local community college boards run their own schools.
However, in states that give up local autonomy, Spencer said, community colleges can become prep schools for universities. They are more concerned about transferring credits than offering night and vocational classes that benefit their communities, he said.
Missouri, which also has one board overseeing all higher education, also gives local community college boards most of the control over their schools.
In both Kansas and Missouri, community colleges receive less than half their financing from the state, said Steve Dougherty, Missouri deputy commissioner for higher education.
"A statewide board really doesn't have the right to determine the majority of what the community colleges are going to do," he said.
Kansas community college officials told a House committee Monday that the state shouldn't change community college governance while contributing only a quarter of the schools' money.
Although the bill would not necessarily increase state control, Bryce Roderick, a trustee at Garden City Community College, said it could cause a gradual erosion of local control. Most Kansas community colleges oppose the plan, he said.
Dougherty said other states such as California and Colorado were
moving toward consolidating community college control.
"This seems to have raised a kind of alarm in the community college sector." he said.
The Colorado Commission on Higher Education runs the governing boards of all the state's community colleges and universities, said Geri Reinardy, assistant to the executive director of the commission.
"We've got a much larger system than Kansas does, so it makes more sense for us," he said.
Dougherty said that the coordinating board that governs higher education in Missouri kept all the programs on track.
we don't have people in the community colleges going in a different direction on some policies," he said.
President Mullins Kevin Pritchard, Treasurer
Vice President Kraner Kelly Donohoe, Treasurer
First Class
Coalition for Student Senate sponsors a new tradition First Class wants to score your vote with the following first class concepts
- To get the students their first class options!
- To keep the summer school program alive!
- To end presidential salaries and wasteful senate retreats!
Photo by Alan Hagman
- To provide a new tradition of first class senators that show the leadership and capability of getting the job done!
- To sponsor student organizations that serve KU students in a first class fashion such as crew, BSU, forensics, rugby, football and basketball!
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