University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 10, 1988
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Professor encourages salary study
By Rebecca I. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas needs to do a comprehensive study of faculty salary compression to show faculty that it is serious about combatting the problem, an associate professor of religious studies said yesterday.
The professor, Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, said faculty needed to be confident that the administration understood the areas of salary compression and was trying to solve the problem.
Salary compression occurs when new faculty are hired at salaries closer to or greater than the salaries of current faculty.
Zimdars-Swartz did a study last week to show salary compression in the humanities, interdisciplinary studies and social sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The study showed the number of salaries being made by assistant professors, associate professors and professors and the overlap in salaries among the ranks.
For example, her chart showed that five associate professors earned the same amount as four assistant professors with less experience. The professors, in humanities and interdisciplinary
studies, made between $25,000 and $26,000 this
school year.
Zimdars-Swartz said salaries were particularly low for associate professors who came to KU about 10 years ago. These faculty members have suffered from a period of low salary increases from the Legislature while salaries for new faculty have increased
Administrators need to do a similar study on a University-wide scale, she said.
She said that some KU departments were becoming "salary ghetto's" in which the faculty salaries were very low in comparison to other departments.
Ghettos are caused by a depressed market for those faculty, little turnover in the department and the perception that the department is not bringing much national recognition to the University, she said.
Zimardz-Swartz said she didn't favor across-the-board raises, which wouldn't take into account the unrewarded merit of some departments. That would make compression worse.
Instead, administrators must make wise decisions, especially if money from the Margin of
Excellence becomes available, to raise salaries that are particularly depressed, she said.
Carl Lande, professor of political science and East Asian studies, agreed with Zimdars-Swartz that compression was a problem but favored some type of across-the-board increase for faculty.
Lande said faculty should receive both cost-ofliving increases and merit increases to keep up with other universities. Faculty members receive raises only on a merit basis determined by each department.
"Raises are not available except through the battle for merit increases," he said.
Lande said that the main reason for salary compression was that the state of Kansas continued to fund faculty salaries at levels lower than at other universities.
"The people who have been here the longest have fallen behind the most," he said.
But Lande said that without competitive salaries for new faculty, the situation at the state universities would be even worse because the quality of the new faculty would be lowered.
Six will receive '88 Hilltopper awards
By Stacy Foster
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Six seniors who have excelled in their academics and campus involvement have been recognized for their efforts by the Jayhawk Yearbook with the Hiltonter award.
the recipients will be guests of honor at a reception at 6 p.m. tonight at the Adams Alumni Center, said Pat McCarthy, business manager for the Jayhawk.
Seniors recognized for involvement
The award was established in the 1930s.
The 1988 Hilltopters were selected by a committee composed of faculty, students from campus organizations and keyboarder editor and business manager.
This year's recipients include:
Residents' signs call for lower speed limit
Kansan staff writer
Bv Christine Martin
"The signs show our entire neighborhood is strongly in favor of changing the speed limit," Entrikin said.
The signs, which read "UP supports 20 mph," were put up Sunday by members of the University Place Neighborhood Association to show their support for lowering the speed limit from 30 to 20 mph, said Neva Enterrik, a member of the association, on Monday.
Temporary speed signs set out Sunday by residents of the University Place neighborhood.
At least 60 small white paper signed lined Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi streets between the University of Kansas and Lawrence High School on Monday morning.
Tim Miller, chairman of the Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission, said yesterday that he didn't sign the signs the association had put up.
Entrikin said that police took the signs down Monday afternoon.
The University Place neighborhood is bordered on the north by Sunyside Avenue, on the south by 19th Street, on the east by Louisiana Street and on the west by Naismith Drive.
"That's called grassroots action, I guess," Miller said.
Not enough commission members were present Monday night to take action, but the commission
will make recommendations on the requests at the April 4 meeting
Enterkin said yesterday that the association might put up more signs before that meeting.
Entrikin said the association had requested at the commission meeting Monday night that the Traffic Safety Commission reduce the speed limit and install traffic lights at the intersection of 18th and Illinois streets.
Entrikin said that because the neighborhood was between KU and Lawrence High School, which
are both on 20-mph routes, motorists tended to speed through the neighborhood.
"The quality of our neighborhood is deteriorating. It's become a speedway." Entrikin said.
Hopefully we'll get something done before something happens."
"People just go too fast. There have been so many close calls.
There are no signs in the neighborhood that post the 30 mph speed limit.
Miller said that if a speed limit wasn't posted, it was 30 mph.
education is not reflected in GPA alone,but the other things you've been involved in.'
- Carla Dechant
F.
Hays senior and Hilltopper
Morris Chang
Chang, Wichita senior, said that he tried to be involved with as many campus activities as he could.
"It's a good way to open your eyes to what is going on out there," Chang said. "You can't be absorbed in your studies all the time."
Chang is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, a chemistry fraternity. He has received research grants for his work with organic photochemistry. He has also volunteered at Wesley Hospital in Wichita and has been a member of the sophomore, junior and senior honor societies.
Chang is majoring in microbiology and is planning to go to medical school.
Carla Dechant
Dechant, Hays senior, said there was more to her academic life than just books. She wanted to be remembered by the impact she had on others, not just because she was a Hilltopper.
"I'm not strictly academic," Dechant said. "Education is not reflected in GPA alone, but the other things you've been involved in."
ans concert last year.
Dechant said that being involved in extra-curricular activities and working her way through school had made her more appreciative of her education.
Dechant is double-majoring in Spanish and business.
Dechant is vice president of Mortar Board, the senior honor society, and helped organize the Vietnam veter-
Johnson, Leavenworth senior, has been involved in several campus musical activities. He has been in the band and the jazz band for three years.
Carl Johnson
Johnson is also president of Mortar Board, the senior honor society.
Johnson wrote the music for his fraternity, Sigma Nu, in this year's Rock Chalk Revue.
Johnson is majoring in music theory.
Stephanie Quincy
Quincy, Iola senior, has been involved in Student Senate since her freshman year. She has served on the student body and recently certify the student body vice president.
Quincy said that being involved in the student government has given her a better understanding of how the education and students work together.
Quincy is majoring in political science and is planning on going to law school.
Christina Shannon
Shannon, Golden, Colo., senior, said that her main college goal was to be actively involved in her education.
"It's kind of a give and take relation," Shannon. "I think what you give to your university you get more than the more you give the more you get."
Shannon has been involved in Student Senate and College Assembly. She is a member of Mortar Board. She is also the program director and business manager of the KU honor student association.
Shannon is double-majoring in mathematics and economics.
Angela Mever
"Being involved gives you a different perspective on your major and makes you an all-around better person." Meyer said.
Meyer, Kensington senior, said that being involved in the study abroad program has given her insight to the way other cultures live. She is going to Kiel, West Germany, where her graduate study in microbiology.
Meyer has been involved in Alpha Chi Sigma and the German Club. She was selected Phi Kappa Phi, which is approximately 10 percent of the 1988 graduating class.
Meyer is majoring in microbiology and is planning to go to medical school.
New hours on campus during the spring break
For those not vacationing in the spring-break hot spots across the country, here is a list of service hours for campus facilities.
Residence halls will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12 and will open at noon Sunday, March 20.
Robinson Center will be open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. during spring break. On Fridays, the center will close at 5 p.m. on weekends, the center will be closed. Regular hours will resume Sunday, March 20.
**Watson Library** spring break hours will be: March 13 — noon to 5 p.m.; March 14-18 — a.m. to 5 p.m.; March 19 — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
March 20 — noon to midnight.
■ The Kansas Union will be open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and will be closed on the weekends. Union Square will be open 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The bookstore will be open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Jaybow will be closed during spring break.
■ The Burge Union will be closed during spring break. The information counter, candy counter and building will be open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 15 and Friday, March 18 to accommodate conferences.
GLSOK receives $1,550 to promote GALA festivities
Gay awareness week gets Senate funds
By Jeff Moberg Kansan staff writer
Student Senate allocated funds last night that will allow Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas to hold its 15th annual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week next month.
GALA Week, which was designed to increase awareness of gay and lesbian issues on campus, will be held from April 10 to 15.
event. Some senators wanted to limit the advertising budget for GALA week because they thought the event was so controversial that it would publicize itself.
The Senate deliberated for more than an hour over how much money to allocate to GLSOK to publicize the
The Senate finally decided to give $1.550 to the organization.
GALA Week will begin with a noon march originating from Lawrence City Hall on April 10. The march will conclude at South Park, located in Jefferson Park, between 11th and 13th streets, where a rally will be held.
Liz Lobert, director of GLSKO,
said that GALA Week was designed
to show people that gays and lesbians
do exist in society.
"It is to show that gay and lesbian people are everywhere in all walks of life." Tolbert said.
Other events highlighting the week will be a candeliight vigil at the campanile, a "Wear Blue Jeans if You're Gay Day," and a performance by Hilary Harris, a lesbian comedian.
Carolyn Speer, Nunemaker senator, said that GALA week helped to clear up misconceptions about gays and lesbians.
"The whole homophobia issue is in style again with AIDS going around," Speer said. "It is important to have it because there is an incredible amount of ignorance on campus.
Michael Diggs, off-campus senator, said that when he first arrived at KU he knew nothing of gay and lesbian issues and that he even avoided wearing blue jeans during a past GALA Week because he thought
it was a day for the gay community to solidify.
"I now know that the purpose behind it is that it is ridiculous to chastise people for their sexual beliefs," Diggs said.
In other action, the Senate agreed to play a basketball game against the student senate at Kansas State University. The game, billed as the last game at Ahearn Field House, will be at noon on March 27.
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