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Local Briefs 189 students inducted into honor society
Phi Kappa Phi, a national honor society, inducted 189 students yesterday in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The society was founded in 1897 and now has 240 chapters in the country. The KU chapter was founded in 1975.
The society also presented the James Blakiston Memorial Fellowship, a $500 award, to Phillip N. Smith, Independence senior, one of yesterday's inductees. Smith is majoring in aerospace engineering.
Undergraduate members of the society are chosen from the top five percent of the senior class. Graduate students are chosen from the top 10 percent of candidates in their class.
Chamber elects 1987-88 president
William Argersinger, professor of chemistry and former vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, spoke on "Students All" at the ceremony.
Donald Johnston, a Maupintour Inc. executive and KU alumnus, has been elected president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce for 1987-88 by the chamber's board of directors.
The chamber also elected Del Brinkman, KU vice chancellor for academic affairs, to serve as vice president for community affairs.
Johnston and Brinkman will begin serving their one-year terms April 1. Johnston, who earned an undergraduate degree in business in 1966 and a law degree in 1966 from KU, will succeed local insurance executive Bob Johnson.
KU law students to compete today
Ten KU law students will compete at 7 p.m. today in a client counseling contest in 108 and 109 Green Hall.
Five teams of two students each will counsel clients in mock interviews. Four area attorneys will judge the competition.
The top two KU teams will compete later this month at Washburn University of Topeka
The winning KU team also will go to the regional competition at the end of this month in Fayetteville, Ark.
Downtown group looks for artists
The Downtown Lawrence Association is seeking commercial artists to design posters for next year's downtown promotions.
Those interested should meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the gallery of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Association officials will announce bid requirements for the 14- by 22-inch color silkscreen posters at the meeting.
The association will choose eight to 10 posters to promote special downtown events such as sidewalk sales, said Carolyn Shy, DLA Main Street program director.
Shy said artists would be compensated but that the amount had not been determined vet.
For more information, call Sue Neverve at 842-3883.
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Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 16, 1987
By LISA A. MALONEY
Student body president Brady Stanton said Friday that he might veto the $24,800 Kansas Crew bill that the Student Senate passed Wednesday.
Staff writer
"The schools that have good crews are generally private schools that have private endowments." Stanton said. "We're a public school. We just cannot afford a ritzy, country-club type of sport like crew."
But Scott Long, Kingwood, Texas, junior and crew team captain said they should not be penalized because the snort was expensive
"It's not a country club sport. The people who come out are not people who can afford to throw away $300," Long said.
Team members pay their own travel expenses, hotel accommodations and meals
when they travel to events in Philadelphia and Syracuse, N.Y. he said. Those expenses can cost a member anywhere from $300 to $500 a year and do not include the $45 KU membership fee and the $15 U.S. Rowing Association membership fee, he said.
The crew bill, which the Senate passed 41-13 in a roll call vote taken after more than two hours of debate, grants the team $24,800 for the purchase of two new racing boats.
"That's a lot of money coming from the pockets of the rowers," he said.
As student body president, Stanton has the power to veto any bill within 10 days after it passes. His veto may be overturned by a two-thirds vote of the full Senate.
Long said he was confident that if Stanton vetored the bill, the Senate would overturn the veto.
"I'm surprised that he would consider vet oing it after it passed by such a wide margin," he said.
Stanton said that including the $24,800, crew would have received a total of $31,000 this year from the Senate, more than three times the amount the Cricket Club, KU Fencing Club, KU Rugby Football club and men's and women's soccer clubs combined received from Senate
Crew is considered a student organization, and receives money from the $28 student activity fee that students pay every semester. Stanton said that if he did not veto the bill, each student would pay $1.10 this year to support the team.
He said that $24,800 was not an unreasonable amount for crew to request because the sport was expensive but that it was still more money than the Senate should be willing to pay.
"What they're asking for is not ridiculous for that sport," he said. "It's not a ridiculous figure, it's just a big figure.
"Crew has outgrown its parent. I think they need to start looking for alternative forms of funding."
One possibility for other funding sources would be for the KU Athletic Corporation to finance crew as a non-revenue sport, he said.
KUAC now receives $6.50 for each student from the Senate but is requesting an increase of $8.50. Canton said the Senate would consider granting an increase if the KUAC would agree to support crew.
Gary Hunter, associate athletic director for KUAC, said that because crew is not a recognized National Collegiate Athletic Association sport, KUAC might be prohibited by its bylaws from sponsoring crew.
Report says unions have modest effect
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Faculty unions have little effect on faculty pay, a panel on collective bargaining reported Friday at a meeting of the University Senate Executive Committee.
The report to the full SenEx concluded that faculty unions at other universities had not effectively lobbied state legislatures. But unions may improve faculty governance and involvement in administrative decision making, the report said.
"Faculty unions," the report said, "have at best a modest effect on faculty compensation, have selectively strengthened faculty governance, have not compromised merit considerations and have had little impact on recruitment and retention.
"All available evidence points to the conclusion that the economic gains have been modest. If at all, and in spite of that, there are fringe areas more, than on salaries."
Several faculty members are working to organize a KU faculty union. One of the organizers, Clifford Griffin, professor of history, has said a union would give the faculty leverage with the Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature.
The report said the SenEx- appointed committee, which was led by T.P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, talked with faculty members at various universities across the nation.
Dave Downing, professor of aerospace engineering and a committee member, told SenEx on Friday, "There's apparently a lot of misconception about what a union would or would not do."
The report said, "The funding for salaries rests with the state legislature, and the unions have not been as effective lobbyists as they are perceived to be in the area of public education, for instance."
Felix Moos, professor of anthropology and a committee member, said financial troubles had prompted some university faculties to discuss collective bargaining.
Moss also said that unionization on campus had grown in popularity and
"The feeling we get is that if an election were held today, there would be much more support than there have been 10 years ago," he said.
Faculty at about one-sixth of the nation's 3,200 institutions of higher education had organized by the end of 1984, the report said.
Srinivasan said 26 or 27 states, helped Kansas, had laws allowing public schools.
The report said faculty unions seem to weaken existing faculty growth.
"In campuses with traditionally weak governance, faculty unions have significantly contributed toward strengthening it and where governance was traditionally activist it remained so," the report said.
Unionization may improve working conditions in terms of due process, openness, accountability and faculty involvement in administrative decision making, the report said.
But greater bureaucracy and higher operational costs also result, it said.
Some SenEx members said Friday that KU's faculty was not well enough informed about collective bargaining.
The committee report defined collective bargaining in higher education as the establishment of a faculty representative organization under the law to advocate, negotiate and conclude agreements for the faculty on negotiable issues.
Mel Dubnick, SenEx chairman,
said the University Senate would
organize a forum on collective bargaining.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN Lorraine Hammer, center, supervisor of KU's electron microscope facility, and Sally Frost, right, chairman of the department of physiology and cell biology, demonstrate how an electron microscope scans a specimen. About 25 people braved poor weather yesterday to attend the demonstration, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History, in Haworth Hall.
Life forms magnified in KU exhibit
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By LAURA BOSTROM Staff writer
Cells from a salamander embryo enlarged and filled a screen as Lorraine Hammer, supervisor of KU's electron microscope facility, turned up the magnification.
Haworth Hall.
"The they look like Rice Krispies." Rand Allen said, staring at the green lines and shadows on the monitor.
Allen, a Lawrence resident, and his three children, ages 10, 7 and 3, were the first group that saw embryos, tadpoles and salamanders in an electron microscope demonstration yesterday at
Sally Frost, chairman of the department of physiology and cell biology, gave the demonstration as part of "The Unseen Sea," an exhibit sponsored by the Museum of Natural History.
One-week-old embryos attempted to squirm free from their Jell-O-like eggs, and two adult salamanders and 3-week-old tadpoles who had just fed on brine shrimp swam in three separate clear-plastic containers.
The salamanders and microscope are part of Frost's research in genetic and cell biology.
microscope, which is the size of a computer bank. A beam of electrons then is shot across the specimen. The electrons are attracted to a sensor, where they are detected and reassembled on a television monitor.
An embryo specimen is placed in a vacuum chamber of the electron
The microscope can magnify an object from 10 to 80,000 times its normal size.
"Lorraine, do you have any bugs?" Frost said. "Bugs look great on here."
The bugs weren't available for magnification, but a particle of ragweed pollen was.
"They look like little dandelions," Kara Allen, 10, said as the pollen grew on the screen.
ASK uses lobbying skills to further campus causes
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By LISA A. MALONEY
The KU chapter of the Associated Students of Kansas needs to be aware of issues on campus in addition to state lobbying, Martie Aaron, campus co-director of ASK, said Friday.
She said that she thought ASK could help improve the University by lobbying for changes at the University with the same techniques students use when they lobby at the Statehouse in Topeka.
"There's almost a manifest destiny that KU needs to fulfill as a state institution," Aaron said.
"KU needs to look seriously at capping its enrollment." she said. The University has an open-enrolment policy, which allows any student with a Kansas high school diploma to enroll.
Setting a limit on enrollment would deny some students a KU education, but many legislators think KU's quality would suffer in the long run if its enrollment continues to increase and Kansas' economy continues to suffer, she said.
ASK supports also a state Senate Appropriations Committee's bill that would change the student residency requirement from one year to six months. That bill would benefit KU students, she said.
Another area at the University needing improvement is the financial aid office, which is overcrowded and understaffed. Aaron said.
sit back and let the administration decide for you," Aaron said, "but if you do, your long-term interests are going to be damaged."
ASK is a state organization with chapters that are run by the student governments at Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, Wichita State University and KU.
Mark Tallman, legislative director of ASK in Topeka, said he encouraged each campus to let its university officials know about student concerns. Issues reach the Kansas Legislature earlier in the session when the issues have universities' backing because universities can ask for support from the Board of
"These are all ideas that you could
Regents and the governor, he said.
Each ASK chapter pays dues based on the number of students on campus. The dues pay the salaries of two full-time legislative lobbyists, Tallman and Christine A Graves, in Topeka. But student members from each of the groups are expected also to make trips to the Statehouse to talk to legislators in person.
Tallman said that KU had sent more student lobbyists to Topeka this year than any other school, partly because of the budget and the closest to the Statehouse.
"Most legislators are very receptive and not out to get you." Aaron said. "They know ASK students are not professional lobbyists."
"ASK is the unique voice," she
Aaron said ASK's focus had changed in recent years from social issues, such as landlord-student tenant problems and lowering the drinking age, to broader concerns, such as educational quality and access.
"As a state organization, it's becoming much more sophisticated," she said.
State Rep. Sand Duncan, R Wichita and students were effective laborers
"I'm a long-time supporter of this organization because I feel there's a need for it," Duncan said.
ASK is the only organization that represents student needs and concerns for the entire state, he said.
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