University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 21, 1991
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Number of journals at science library may decline
Extra $1 million needed to offset increase in price of publications
Kansan staff writer
By Eric Nelson
Science departments at KU are in jeopardy of losing some important resources.
The equipment is not test tubes or microscopes but rather scientific laboratory equipment.
An increase in the price of journals along with the devaluation of the U.S. dollar made a national nomic malaise that led to the University of Kansas, said William
Crowe, dean of libraries
The situation was discussed briefly at a meeting of the Faculty Executive Committee this week. Frances Ingemann, chairperson of FAcx, said the problem was University-wide.
She said operating expenses for KU had to be covered despite the budget crunch, which may limit the amount of financing available for the library from the Other Operating Expenses portion of the budget.
"There isn't a lot of fat that can be taken out of O'O'E, and diverted to
Crove said the future budget projections for the library looked dismal.
To keep consistent with the current number of journal subscriptions and other publications, the library would need an additional $1 million increase in the current budget, he said.
"We're planning for a potential crunch," he said. "We have to be ready."
Crowe said one reason for the great financial need of the library has to do with the growing number of users.
worldwide and the steep increase in the price of journals.
He said that many companies selling journals had increased their prices dramatically to make generous profits.
She said another problem was that more journals were being published
More professors are writing for journals because tenure is a concern, and Neeley said libraries could not afford to buy all of the journals.
Kathleen Neeley, librarian at the Anschutz Science Library, said some journals cost up to $6,000 a year.
Crowe said the library was meeting with representatives of faculty groups to discuss options. He said the
meetings were important because faculty would be gone in May when the budget was presented.
"The library can't make decisions by itself," he said. "We're setting the stage for a potential problem."
Crowe said the libraries were important to the campus because they served different departments on the campus. He said the money used in the libraries benefited the entire campus.
"After faculty, I think the best investment the University makes is in the library," he said.
Richard Givens, chairperson of the department of chemistry, said that because of cuts in the number of
journals KU received during the past 10 years, the sciences no longer could afford to lose publications.
"The sciences don't want to lose any more journals," he said.
Givens said cuts would be devastating because they would cut out information that could not be received elsewhere.
He said the library was an importa-
tion too, a tool that many could
attache to loss.
Neeley said further cuts could lead to employment problems for many department staff.
"I believe we will no longer really be a research library," she said. "It is time for us to go."
Jenny Koziakite, St. Louis, Mo., junior, gets a kiss from Kelly through a hole in a fence at the corner of 11th and Ohio Streets. Koziakite visits every day with her own dog, Maggie. Kelly's owner, Keith Middlemas, cut the hole in the fence when Kelly was a puppy so she could see out. As Kelly grew, the hole had to be enlarged to accommodate the dog.
Peek-a-boo
Budig insists that Margin must be financed next year
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA—In an effort to keep KU competitive with other universities, Chancellor Gene A. Budig insisted that the third year of the Margin of Excellence needed to be financed in fiscal 1992.
Budig appeared yesterday before a House Appropriations subcommittee to discuss Gov. Joan Finney's current resources budget recommendation, which does not include financing for the Margin.
The governor also has proposed a budget that includes Margin financing, but that budget assumes that all her requests will be passed.
Budig said failure to finance the Margin would have an adverse effect on KU's ability to hire and retain exceptional professors.
"The principal goal of the Margin program was to achieve 100 percent salary parity with peers," Budig said. "The reality is that after three years, we have made little progress."
After peaking at 92.1 percent of peer institutions' average salary level in 1987, KU salaries have slipped to less than 1 percent higher than they had been before the Margin was implemented.
"If our request is approved in full, we estimate we will improve to the 92 percent range," Budig said. "If the governor's current resources budget is approved, we could fall below 85 percent."
"Our vulnerability to a mass exodus of our mid-career faculty is very real today. In addition, within the next 10 years, 25 percent of our full-time faculty will reach the average retirement age. If we must watch a parade of departures of younger faculty and of retirements, the University of Kansas, as we know it, will no longer exist." Budig said.
there would be a problem finding money for the Margin now.
But committee members said
"My industry at home has been laying off 2,000 people, and those people feel that the faculty at the universities should feel fortunate to have jobs," said State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Needosa.
State Rep. Bill Wisdom, D-Kansas city, said, "There is no doubt in my mind that people in Kansas want good education. It appears to me that we're talking about the current resources budget, and that could be after today and in the weeks to come, but I understand the situation."
turn the state's problems around
"I'm not unsympathetic to what you're saying," he said to the committee. "But now is the time you've got to have strength in education, or you're going to be in more trouble down the road."
Budig said the Legislature also sympathize with the position, but they are not the students' efforts.
Budig said education could help
"The students have been effective in communication with both the governor and members of the Legislature." he said. "They have shouldered their part of the Margin through tuition increases, and it is important that the state, through the Legislature, meet its obligations."
'Black Honus Wagner' kept from majors
Kansan staff writer
By S. J. Bailey Kansan staff writer
A list of the greatest baseball players in the history of the sport would include some familiar names. Baba Ruth, T.Cobb, Ted Williams.
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams,
Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron . . .
However, few people, including followers of the game, would insert John Henry Lloyd near the top of their list.
But the legendary "Bambino," George Herman Rihan, did.
Asked whom he regarded as the greatest player he had ever seen, Ruth replied, "You mean major leaguers?"
"No, " the interviewer interjected.
"The greatest player anywhere."
In fact, Lloyd just might be the best player never to den the uniform of a major-league ballclub.
"T a pick john Loeye," Kuft said. "That's high praise coming from the greatest player many feel to be the greatest player of all time — but it's deserved praise."
Called "the Black Honus Wagner" after the great shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Lloyd left a lasting impression on the minds of many major leaguers. Wagner himself said after seeing Lloyd play that he was honored that they should name such a great ballplayer after him.
But Lloyd was more than a ball-
player. He was a gentle man who harbored no grudges against a society that kept him from doing the one thing he longed to do more than anything else — play in the major leagues.
Asked once if he regretted being born at the wrong time, Lloyd said, “No. I feel it was the right time. I had a chance to prove the ability of our race in this sport, and because many people are very proud of given the Negro a greater opportunity to be accepted into the major leagues with other Americans.”
John Henry Lloyd was born in Palatka, Fla., near Jacksonville, in 1884. He was given to his grandmother as an infant after his father died and his mother remarried.
Lloyd never completed elementary school but worked as a delivery boy until 1905, when he began playing baseball for the Macon, GA. Acres, and then visiting, and he soon was grabbed by the team X-Giants, a Black touring队
The next year, the X-Giants, who claimed to be the best Black team in the world, played the Philadelphia Athletics in a major-league exhibition game. The X-Giants lost the game and LloydCollins won five trips to the plate. From there, it was only a matter of time before some of the greatest major-league
ballplayers of the time began hearing of John Henrv Llovd.
In 1909, Lloyd was playing with the Havana Reds in Cuba when he had the opportunity to play in a series of major-league exhibition games, which featured the American League and base-stakeing champion, Tyn Cobb.
If there were any doubts that Lloyd was at the top of his game, they soon were put to rest. Lloyd outbitt Cobin in the series, batting .500 to Cobin's 369.
After a few managing stints, Lloyd returned to the field as a player and now Eastern Colored League batting champion with a 444 average.
Lloyd continued to play and manage and was instrumental in opening the club.
Furthermore, the cast-iron shin guards Lloyd wore to protect himself from Cobb's infamous spikes allowed him to attack the three consecutive attempts to steal.
LLoyd died on March 19, 1965, of arteriosclerosis after a two-year illness, but he left behind a legacy that would open the doors for other African Americans, such as Jackie Robinson, not their chance to live their dreams.
After the series, Cobb was livid and vowed never again to play in a game against Negroes.
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