Most profs see no conflict of interest in book sales
By STEVE FRAZIER
Under current University of Kansas policies, textbook authors who receive royalty payments can profit from increased sales when they assign their books for their own classes.
Some KU officials and professors say such royalty payments are usually insignificant, but others say that a professor who accepts royalties from his own classes is involved in a conflict of interests.
"If a professor writes a text, he and his colleagues are torn between choosing the best book and choosing the book that would benefit either himself, his friend or his colleague," Francis Tuggle, associate professor of computer science and business administration, said yesterday.
TUGGLE WROTE the computer science text
formerly used at KU, but he said he didn't accept any royalties from books sold to KU students.
Grid Publishing Co., Tuggle's publisher, paid him 15 per cent of the retail price for each book sold elsewhere and sent royalties computed from that. He also sent to the Kansas University Endowment Association
"I would like to see that as a general rule—to insist that locally generated royalties go to some charitable institution, although I know some would argue it as an infringement of academic rights." Tylerguess.
Oscar Haugh, chairman of the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee, said the question of a professor receiving royalties from sales to his own class has never come before his
"HOWEVER, I THINK it ought to," Haugh said.
Mike Davis, University attorney, said he couldn't comment on any possible conflicts of interest because he represented faculty members.
"This is something that is tremendously important.
I do think there is a possible problem with conflicts
A list compiled by the Kansas Union Bookstore, students and faculty members shows that more than 20 KU faculty members have written texts used at KU.
The University of Minnesota department of political science decided several years ago that "a faculty member shouldn't profit from his classes because there is an inherent feeling of conflict of interests," Samuel Kristlov, department chairman, said.
KRISLOV SAID political science professors at Minnesota either returned local royalties to
"We didn't develop the policy because of any particular incident, we just thought nobody should have any reason to be suspicious," Krislov said. "It was one way to resolve the question that I don't see what it is."
students or donated the money to charities or scholarship funds.
Krislov said there also was a university wide requirement at Minnesota that a faculty textbook author must make a formal application to receive royalties from local sales.
PHIL MEKNIGHT, director of the Office of Instructional Resources, said KU did not need much
He said the advantages of having a professor who was challenged by his own text in the classroom outweighed the disadvantages of possible conflict of interest or the temptation for excessively
duplication of text material in lectures.
"It could constitute a conflict of interest, but the rottytees are so small that it's really not that big, as an example."
ALTHOUGH ADVANCE payments, minimum book sales and royalty percentages all vary with the author and the text. Esquire magazine reported in 2014 that most of the texts are on to a good thing, and they know it."
Royalty payments usually range from 10 to 20 per cent, according to both Equip and several local textbook authors. At the extreme is Paul Samulson, an M.I.T. professor who wrote a basic economics text used at KU and many other colleges and universities. Since his first edition came out in 1948, Samulson has received $6 million in royalties, Esquire said.
See TEXTBOOKS page three
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87 No.56
Student architects propose city hall
Tuesday, November 9, 1976
See story page five
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Dukeses' manor
The chancellor's house, remodeled in 1989, is used by the Dykes as a home and a place to entertain University guests. Mrs. Dykes, sitting in the first floor entryway, has decorated the house with Oriental artwork and accent pieces.
Double duty for KU White House
By DAVID JOHNSON
1532 Lilac Lane
It doesn't exactly have the same ring as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or 10 Downing St., but the house that campus-bound students walk by on southeast campus is the University's equivalent of an executive mansion.
Since 1939 when Elizabeth Watkins gave her home, the "outlook," to KU, 1523 Lilac Lane has been the address of every chancellor from Deane Malott to Derek Dokes
In addition, new drapes were added and some rooms were recaptured uplants. New
DURING THE interim after Chancellor E. Laurence Chapman resigned in August 1972 and Dykes took office in July 1973, the house was vacant. Then acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols, who elected not to move into the house, and his wife, Clytze, coordinated an extensive remodeling of the 60-year old home.
And considering the improvements and remodeling done to the house during Chancellor Dykes' occupancy and the nine months it was vacant before he came to KU, students and staff would sit together for sometime as a home and a place to hold University entertainment functions.
Every room in the house was repainted off-white by a Building and Grounds crew, and the main floor was recarpeted in gold. The room is the first living room were reupholstered.
mirrors were installed in a bedroom, the bathrooms and a dressing room, and some hallways.
Exterior work on the house included repairing and repainting trimwork and replacing some large cedars in the front yard with low-growing bushes.
MARTIN JONES, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said recently that a balcony also was repaired and steps were built from the third floor to a lower level. Additional electrical outlets were installed and doors were hung on some bookhelves.
Nancy Dykes, wife of the chancellor, said she was happy with the remodeling and was
Jones said Buildings and Grounds' total tab including labor and materials was $17,733. Of that, the University reimbursed Buildings and Grounds$4,122 for material costs and $6,507 for out of the University's special repairs, improvements and remodeling fund.
The remodeling costs also were supplemented by the Kansas University Endowment Association, Todd Seymour, president, said the Endowment Association of the University of the Simmertree Building Fund, used for various University building projects.
ALTHOUGH HIS records aren't specific, Seymour said, he thinks the money was largely used to buy carpeting for the chancellor's residence.
grateful to Clytie Nichols for "devoting her time so unseasonal" to improving the home.
Mrs. Dykes asked a new heating and air conditioning system was installed this spring.
The last extensive remodeling of the chancellor's house was done in 1969. Then, two bathrooms and two standing closets were converted from an office on the first floor. The kitchen was completely remodeled and two large refrigerators were installed to preserve gift flowers and to keep food for parties.
Mrs. Dykes' taste in Oriental art is
 reflected in the two Japanese paintings in
One full-time maid and a half-time cook are employed by the University to help with daily maintenance, reception and parties. Other staff and support staff repairs were done by Building and Grounds.
Materials for the work, which isn't completed yet, have cost $6393.35, according to records at the University's Purchasing Office.
See WHITE HOUSE page seven
Although the division isn't strict, the Dykes entertain on the first floor and live on the second floor. The furnishings on the first floor belong to the state, Mrs. Dykes said, and those on the second floor are theirs.
MRS. DYKES SAID a dining room where the Dykes eat their family meals also was on Monday.
By JOHN MUELLER
Lawrence's proposed Haskell Loop was decisively rejected last night by an East Lawrence citizens' group that formerly supported the $2.5 million roadway project.
Group votes against loop
The East Lawrence Improvement Association (ELIA), a citizens' group which voted in 1794 to have the city use federal Neighborhood Development Funds to buy land for the loop, repudiated by a 68-36 margin its earlier backing of the loop.
The vote is expected to influence whether federal officials release money to start loop
The group's decision came after nearly three hours of often heated debate. Loop supporters and opponents filled the East Lawrence Community Center meeting room, 10th and Delaware streets, to trade messages of city officials who favor the loop.
ELIA'S VICE president, Ed Down, 909 New York ST. opened the meeting with a defense of the loop. He said that "sometimes you have to hurt some things to really make progress." Down put a sign in front of him that said the loop was a Berlin Wall.
But Barbara Wilkins, 2025黛贤 St,
ELIA president, argued against the loop.
"I do feel this is going to ruin the neighborhood," she said. "It's pitiful with the (East Lawrence houses) that we have to go there and not the rehabilitation route."
Willits said the loop, which is designed to carry traffic from 11th Street and Haskell
Avenue to Seventh and Connecticut streets, would increase traffic in East Lawrence neighborhoods, destroy 18 houses that are in them, and probably harm neighborhood schools.
"HOPE SINGERELY that of you in a brainwashed or intimidated," Willis said.
Her statement was a reference to Down's allegation last weekend that the East Lawrence Citizens for Housing Preservation, a group Willis belongs to, had been targeted by people 'from East Lawrence who were "musically ignorant" about the Haskell Loop.
Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney who owns land at Seventh and New York streets in East Lawrence, also spoke against the loon.
"Aren't we talking about moving goods in traffic truck so those of us in a capitalistic society can make more money?" Burr said. "We're not living conditions that are ridiculous."
KYLE ANDREGG, Lawrence community development director, said that the loop would be a buffer zone between industrial and residential areas of East Lawrence. Andregg also criticized what he called "unfair shots" taken by loop opponents.
Andregg said that opponents of the loop had been using a community development loan that Down had received to hurt Down's credibility.
A number of city officials attended the meeting, including Carl Mibek and Barkley Clark, city commissioners; Fred Pence, mayor; and Buford Watson, city
manager, Mibble and Pence are members of ELI and split their time with Pence for the last year. The Mibble is manager.
KEN KALLENBACH, employee of Oblinger Smith Corp. of Wichita, defended his company's environmental impact statement that favored the loop. According to Kallenbach, the city had wanted the loop since its 1939 Comprehensive Plan.
"We didn't try to sell the statement, we just said it's there. How do we make it better?"
Members of the audience disagreed with Kallenbach often, as well as challenging Down's statement that "the main reason for the loop is to build incentive." Several members of the audience said they didn't understand how a road could build in-
See LOOP page three
Kansan posts to be opened
Applications for positions of editor and business manager for the spring semester Kanan are available in 105 Flint Hall, the Student Senate office in room 105B of the Kansas Union and the offices of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. The application deadline is 5 p.m., Nov. 17.
Interviews will begin Nov. 19. Applicants will be notified of the time and place of their interviews.
Salary increases of 5%-7% likely
Bv BARBARA ROSEWICZ
A future increase in faculty salaries at the University of Kansas apparently will be somewhere between the 7 per cent recommended by the Kansas Board of Regents and the 5 per cent suggested by Gov. Robert Bennett.
KU's budget will be reviewed this week by James Bibb, state budget director, and Bennett Nov. 18 and 19. Budget recommendations will be presented to the 1977 Kansas Legislature, which convenes in January.
After Bennett's final recommendations, KU officials will prepare a defense, if necessary, of the proposed 7 per cent salary increase.
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice chancellor, conceded last week that the salary proposal might have a tough time in the legislature.
However, he said he didn't expect the increase to fall below Bennett's proposed $3 million.
Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said he thought the legislature would appropriate at least a 6 per cent salary increase for Regents' schools.
Wendell Lady, R-Wichita and past chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he supposed that the House would be more than Bennett's suggested 5 per cent.
One of KU's major defenses of the salary increase could be KU's runk in comparison to its peers.
A REPORT FROM THE Office of Institutional Research and Planning has indicated that KU ranked 12th among 14 state-supported, Midwestern universities in salaries for professors, associate professors and faculty members. University ranked out of instructors' salaries.
Kansas Regents' schools have received salary increases for the past three years in an effort to bring them up to par with comparable Midwestern universities.
Salaries were increased 10 per cent the
first two years and 8 per cent last year,
after a 2 per cent cut by the legislature.
FUNDS FOR faculty salaries, including increases, are appropriated to the University in a lump sum. The increases are determined and distributed once a year through individual schools and departments.
Last year's salary increases were distributed according to the seniority of the employees.
According to statistics for continuing faculty (these faculty members who stay on year to year) given in the American Association of University Professors bulletin, KU instructors received a 12 per cent increase last year, assistant professors, 9.9 per cent; associate professors, 10.9 per cent; and full professors, 9.9 per cent.
ALTHOUGH THE legislature appropriated 8 per cent for overall faculty funding, some faculty members received more than 8 per cent in merit raises. The
See SALARY page five
Cheryl Wyckoff, Overland Park junior. learns American Sign Language in a noncredit class sponsored by the KU occupational therapy department. See story page seven.
Staff photos by DAVE REGIER