THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
January 26, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 81
(USPS 650-640)
Hayden suggests small pay increase
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
University of Kansas faculty aren't thrilled with the 2.5 percent salary increase proposed by Gov. Mike Brown, but they'll take what they can get.
"It's more than we expected," said Mel Dublin, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee. "It isn't enough."
Sid Shapar, presiding officer of the University Senate, said, "I'm pleased that in these difficult financial times that the state is going to support faculty compensation and I think this is good news indeed."
Hayden presented his fiscal 1988 budget proposal to the Legislature on Friday in the annual State of the State address.
Hayden also proposed a 1 percent increase for faculty retirement benefits, a 2.5 percent increase in student benefits, and a 2 percent increase for classified employees.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement, "Given the state of the economy, Gov. Hayden has made a commendable effort to be supportive of the University of Kansai and the other Regents universities."
A revenue shortfall forced Hayden to order a 3.8 percent spending reduction this year for all state institutions and would reinstate that for the University.
"We realize that his options are limited at this time."
KU had asked for an 8 percent salary increase to stem the tide of faculty leaving for more profitable jobs. The university vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"We will slip further behind peer schools," Brinkman said. "Certainly we need to move."
KU's peer institutions, which are similar to KU in states similar to Kansas, are the universities of Colo- nia and North Carolina. Oklahoma and Oregon
KU faculty salaries are about 92 percent of salaries at peer universities, and bringing KU in line with the standards of the University and the Regents.
"Sooner or later," Shapiro said, "the state is going to have to face up to the fact that faculty compensation is actually less than at peer institutions.
'We're losing our most productive faculty members to other schools
Caller claims credit for Beirut kidnapping
See BUDGET, p. 6, col. 3
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An anonymous caller yesterday claimed responsibility for the weekend abduction of three U.S. teachers and an Indian professor in the name of an underground group linked to Iran.
He threatened to kill the four men if the United States helps Iraq.
An earlier caller, also claiming to speak for the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, said the educators were kidnapped Saturday to prevent the extradition from West Germany to the United States of Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a Lebanese man in a sought 1983 TWA hijacking.
The Christian Voice of Lebanon radio station said it received the two calls yesterday, but it was not clear whether they were made by the same man. The calls could not be authenticated.
Twenty-three foreigners have been reported missing and are thought to be kidnapped in Lebanon, including eight seized since Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite since in Beirut on Jan. 12 on a mission to seek the release of hostages.
The first caller said the group would kill a hostage if Hamiad, 21, was extradited to the United States, where he is wanted on charges of air piracy and murder in the June 1985 attack on a TWA commercial flight to Beijing.
In the second call, a man said a hostage would be killed if Hamadi was not released by midnight (4 p.m. CST). It was not clear whether the caller referred to an American or to other hostages.
The second call also said the hostages would be killed if the United States provided support for Iraq, at war with Iran since September 18.
The three Americans kidnapped from Beirut University on Saturday night by gunmen disguised as police, were Alann Steen, 48, a journalism professor who formerly taught at three northern California colleges; Jesse Turner, an Idaho native, assistant computer scientist; and Robert Polhill, 53, assistant professor of business studies.
The Indian was identified as Mithileshwar Singh, chairman of the business studies division and a legal resident alien of the United States.
Waite, personal emissary of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, remained out of sight for a sixth day yesterday. He was said to have been brought up with Islamic Jihad, captains of two Americans held in Lebanon since 1985.
Terry Anderson, 39, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, and Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut were taken in that kidnapping.
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
Paul Whitmore, 4, Lawrence resident, pets a stuffed opossum at the museum's education program for children. "Platypuses and Potorots Natural History Museum. Whitmore attended Saturday in the Children between the ages of four and six learned about Australia
Children visit Australia in museum class
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Thirteen pairs of curious eyes followed Ruth Genrich's right hand as she reached for the ceiling.
Monday Morning
Kangaroos, Gennrich said, may be 7 feet tall.
oes and other mammals lived in Australia. She picked up a small globe and spun it until her finger found the continent.
Gennrich, director of public education for KU's Museum of Natural History, explained that kangar
"That's as tall as Danny Manning," she said. "Can you imagine that?"
Carrie Wallace, 6, knew something about the place.
"You can't go by car to go to Australia, because there's water and the cars would just sort of sink." she said.
But for these 13 local kids, all between the ages of four and six, the mammals of Australia were only as far away as Dyce Hall and Saturday's 'Plupties and Potorooos' workshop. A potoroo is
a rat kangaroo.
Gennrich agreed
Gennrich held up a stuffed platypus.
"It's a very rare animal, and it lives only in Australia," she said. "This one was probably alive over 100 years ago."
Brenna Buchanan, 6, said its mouth looked funny. "It looks like a duck's mouth."
The platypus' soft, rubberry bill is used to look for food in the water. Gennrich explained "He fed me the same way that we use our firefighters."
He used his tail to steer when he swam, she said.
Paul Whittemore, 4, leaned closer to get a better look.
"Ruth, there's something else he does his tail for," he said. "When enemies come, he uses his tail to scare them away."
Gennrich asked, "What's an animal that has a pouch?"
Marika Spurgeon, 4, and Carrier sat up on their ankles and stretched their arms into the air. The koalas have pouches, they said
But Paul had spotted the movie projector at the back of the room.
See MUSEUM, p. 6, col. 3
Hall residents to use computerized I.D.s in fall
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
After this summer, students who try to use invalid or stolen identification cards to eat in residence hall cateradores may be in for a surprise.
Next year, hall residents will have to use a new KUID to persuade a computer system that they can eat in. Another student, Stoner, director of student housing.
And if other University offices follow the measure taken by the housing office. KU will join 600 other U.S. universities that use a computerized identification system for most campus procedures.
"The main reason we're doing this is to help students in regard to speeding up our procedures," said Wes Williams, dean of educational services. "In the long run, it should save the University money and if we save money, then we can pass those savings on to the students."
"This system is really nice," said Gary Thompson, director of student records. "I think the nice thing about it is that it protects students should they lose their L.D.s, or should it be stolen from them."
A magnetic strip mounted on the back of 6,000 KUIDs that will be distributed to new students this summer will allow a computer to tell which cards are valid and which are not. Stoner said.
In addition, for the sixth time in nearly 20 years, the I.D.s will have a completely new design.
Bill Skeet/KANSAN
A three-color Jayhawk mascot on the card's upper-right corner will replace the University seal. The card
will have a blue stripe with the word "student" written on it and the student's picture will appear on the lower left side.
About 2,500 new I.D. s will be given in April to hall residents who renew
their housing contract for next year. These residents will be asked to trade rentals with other tenants.
An additional 3,500 cards will be sold during summer orientation to new students. After that, all KUIDs will have the magnetic strip. Thompson said.
Students who use the old I.D.s will not be required to buy new ones, but the University will stop printing the old cards, he said.
Thompson said the new card probably would cost students more than $2, but the actual cost had not been determined yet.
University offices that intend to make use of the strip to verify student status will have to buy and install their own computer systems, he said.
So far, only the housing office has decided to use the system.
"We were the first department to
really want it, let's get
things moved."
benefits the system will bring
The office will open bidding this week from contractors who will design the magnetic strip for the cards and who will install the computer system.
"We're really excited about getting the bids out and seeing what comes
The office expects to spend about $40,000 on installing the system, but the firm expects to pay less.
Students will be allowed to eat in any hall cafeteria without having to bring food.
For example, housing operations could proceed more efficiently because the computerized checking system would make it easier to compute such things as the amount of food or supplies consumed every day.
The office could then decide to close less popular cafeterias for some days of the week to save in labor costs, he said.
That would make it easier for the office to study the needs of hall residents, he said. For example, the system could show that students liked to eat in one hall more than another.
But any saving in housing costs would not result in a reduction in housing costs.
Officials from other University offices said they were looking to see how the housing office fared with the new campus. They would establish a similar program.
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"We hope that the cost of the system will pay for itself and that it will offset future increases in housing costs." Stoner said.
"We're certainly interested in implementing that service," said Allan Heinz, director of facilities in the school district, physical education and recreation.
Soaping it up
About 120 fans turned out yesterday at Liberty Hall to see Michael Damian, who plays Danny Romalatti on the CBS daytime series "The Young and the Restless." See story page 8.
Broncos busted
The New York Giants exploded for 30 second-half points and defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI yesterday in Pasadena, Calif. See story page 9.