University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 3. 1986
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KU student reports attack in her room
A Hashinger Hall resident was treated and released from Watkins Hospital after someone entered her room and hit her several times on the head around 1:45 a.m. yesterday. KU police reported.
Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said the 18-year-old woman was treated for injuries to her head and left hand
Brothers said the woman left her door open for a neighbor who needed light in the hall.
The neighbor closed the door when she went to bed but did not lock it. Brothers said.
Brothers said KU police, who got a description of the attacker from two witnesses who saw him leave town, were investigating the incident.
Television set taken
Two Missouri men were booked into the Douglas County jail Monday night on aggravated robbery charges stemming from an incident in which the men used a shotgun to take a television set from a Lawrence home.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said the owners of a residence in the 300 block of California Street reported the incident to police around 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The owners said two men came to their residence, pointed a spotgun at them and took a television set valued at $1,200. Dqlest顾问
The owners told police that they owed the Missouri men money and that the men had taken their television as collateral, Dalquest said.
Union study hall set
The Kansas Union will convert two meeting rooms on the main level into study rooms to provide a study space for students during finals.
Art Gallery West will be available Dec. 9 through 19 for non-smokers, and Art Gallery East will be available for smokers. Both rooms are on level four.
The rooms will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. during the first week of finals. They will close at 9 p.m. the second week of finals and at 5 p.m. on Dec. 19, the last day of finals.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, figures were incorrectly stated in a graphic accompanying yesterday's story on women in the KU faculty.
The percentage of non-tenured,
on-track women faculty members
is 31.5 percent. The percentage of
non-tenured women faculty members is
29.2 percent.
The number of tenured women faculty members was omitted in the graph. The number is 129.
Weather
Skies will be mostly sunny with light northerly winds and a high temperature about 40. Skies will be mostly clear tonight with a low temperature around 20.
From staff and wire reports.
Proposal could freeze Med Center jobs
If the Legislature adopts proposed statewide budget cuts, the University of Kansas Medical Center will absorb most of its $2 million loss by leaving vacant staff and faculty positions open, a Med Center official said yesterday.
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor at the Med Center, said the proposed budget cuts that each department submitted to him Nov. 25 indicated that it would not hire new faculty.
Clawson said that presently employed faculty and staff would not suffer salary cuts. Instead, open positions would not be filled, he said.
"The Med Center employs 5,000 people," he said. "People out everyday."
The proposals, which were submitted to Clawson by the dean or director of each academic and service department, were a
response to Governor-elect Mike Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent state spending cut. Hayden proposed the cutback last month to make up for revenue shortfalls and to balance the state budget
Each department was allowed to decide individually how it would absorb its loss.
Under the proposed cutbacks, each of the Med Center's academic departments would reduce its budget by 2.3 percent, and each of its administrative departments would reduce its budget by 3.1 percent.
The effects of the $2 million cut would not be severe enough for students to notice a difference.
"By shifting support one way or another we will be able to make it to the end of the school year without hurting the quality of education," he said.
However, Clawson said that if the proposed
"We have mortgaged against the future," he said.
cuts were not reinstated for fiscal year 1988, the effects could be catastrophic.
Clawson said the other operating expenses of some departments could be cut only by $100 because they already were depleted before Hayden's proposed cuts.
Doris Geitgey, dean of nursing, said the school would adjust by keeping three vacant administration positions onen.
Geitjegy said the school also would not be able to fill two new faculty positions that had an entire enrollment.
No courses would be canceled, but the possible cuts would require closing some lab sections, which would increase the size of clinical groups, she said.
"We feel strongly that students need as much personal attention as possible," she said. "My
concern is that a larger student-teacher ratio might jeopardize our accreditation rating."
The School of Nursing will be reviewed for national accreditation in April by the National League of Nursing, the only accrediting body approved for schools of nursing by the U.S. Department of Education.
Bob Wheeler, director of facilities operations at the Med Center, said his department would absorb the loss with a freeze on hiring and by delaying an order for small equipment.
Most of the vital equipment purchases were made before Hayden's proposal, he said.
Wheeler said the 3.1 percent loss would slow down facilities operations' service but would not affect its service in the patient care area.
Dan Hellyer, a worker for Lawrence Parks and Recreation, strings a row of lights on a tree after replacing burned out bulbs. He fixed lights along Massachusetts Street on Monday.
High lights
Summer classes could be cut
By PAMELA SPINGLER
The biggest effect would be seen in the classrooms and laboratories, he said.
The School of Engineering may cancel up to half of its scheduled classes next summer as part of the school's proposal to limit spending for the rest of the 1987 fiscal year.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said yesterday that the school had to cut $119,069, or 2.3 percent, from the fiscal 1987 budget, which ends June 30, 1987.
"We will have summer school." Locke said. "But not as many classes will be offered as asked."
The school also would delay hiring professional lecturers, faculty members and an associate dean. Other staff members were required to accept the job.
"It's unfortunate, but that's the situation we're in," Locke said.
Cancellation of classes required for a degree would be kept to a minimum, he said. Most of the summer classes are lower level, but some upper-level courses are usually offered.
"You also have to take a look at impact on the faculty." Locke said. "It's also a people story about not just the effects on the students, but also the faculty."
"There are some classes that are only offered in the summer, and we will try not to cut those," he said.
With the decrease in summer courses, faculty members also would suffer because of the lost summer support.
Bob Pippert, Overland Park senior in electrical engineering, said he thought the budget cuts would cause problems.
"I think it will hurt if they cut course programs," Pippert said, "Especially if it's a lower-level class that everyone needs to graduate."
Most lower-level engineering classes are required to progress into upper-level classes, he said. If a student can't get into one class, he could end up a semester behind.
"But most profs are really good at helping you find another class, if it's full, that will fill the upper-level requirements." Pippert said.
George Bednekoff, Weir senior in electrical engineering, said the budget cuts wouldn't delay his graduation in May.
The cuts, however, would affect students because of the faculty restrictions, he said.
"One of the biggest drawbacks for students is the lack of teachers." Bednékot said, adding that with cuts in the budget and the partial hiring freeze, circumstances weren't improving
Greg Miller, Dover, Del., senior in electrical engineering, said students in the laboratories probably would feel the effects the most.
The engineering school isn't the only one hit with a decrease in summer classes.
"It may hurt labs because they use money to keep the equipment updated," he said. "I don't think the cuts will affect it (quality of education) too much."
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said in a memorandum to University officials that 25 percent of all summer school classes at the University may be canceled next summer.
Attorney says suit against Med Center should go to trial
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Governmental immunity should not protect the University of Kansas Medical Center or the state's parole board from a lawsuit stemming from a 1981 shooter spree at the Kansas City, Kan., hospital, the Kansas Supreme Court was told yesterday.
Boan, who had been granted a conditional release from the state prison system a year earlier, was later convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shootings.
The Associated Press
The assertion came from Ruth Benien, an attorney representing family members of the two people killed March 20, 1961, when Bradley Ray Boan is alleged to have randomly fired a shotgun through the hospital's emergency room.
Benien urged the state's highest court to return the lawsuit to the Wyandotte County District Court for trial.
Panel votes to trim Legislature's budget
Benien is a lawyer for the families
TOPEKA — The Legislative Coordinating Council voted yesterday to reduce spending by the Legislature and its support agencies by $420,000, including asking lawmakers to take a 3 percent cut in their daily salary and subsistence.
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The council, made up of the seven top legislative leaders, instructed its staff to draft a bill to be introduced in the 1976 session, which opens Jan. 12, that would trim legislators' daily pay from $54 to $13 and their daily expense allowance from $65 to $62
The 3.8 percent cuts ordered three weeks ago by Governor elect Mike Hayden also will be applied to the Legislature's four support agencies, trimming another $163,000 from the fiscal year 1987 budget.
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The motion approved by the council will require an additional $168,000 reduction in legislative staff expenses to achieve a total cut of $257,000 in the Legislature's budget of $6.5 million during the current fiscal year.
Moreover, factors that the parole board took into account in granting Boan a conditional release for an ag-gravated assault conviction in 1980 remain unclear, she said.
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of Marc Beck, 25, a second-year resident physician at the hospital when he was killed, and Ruth Rybot, 54, of Kansas City, Kan., who died while sitting in the emergency room's waiting area. A consolidated lawsuit by the families seeks an unspecified amount in damages from the state.
In her oral argument before Supreme Court, Benien said that District Court Judge Wayne H. Phillips improperly had dismissed the case last year without considering facts that could leave the two units of state government open to civil damages.
Hayden, who still is speaker of the Kansas House and thus a member of the council, said it was important for the Legislature and the governor's office to set an example in joining the budget cuts he has ordered for all state agencies. Hayden earlier said he would trim the budget of the governor's office by at least 5 percent.
"The problem with this appeal is that we don't really know what the facts are," Bemen said. "We don't know on this appeal what the University of Kansas Medical Center knew about the dangers to its emergency room."
The total reduction of $6, which must be approved by the full Legislature, represents a 5 percent cut from the $119 they now receive in both salary and subsistence while in session. In the course of a 90-day session, that amounts to $540 per legislator.
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