University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 6, 1990
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Director's dismissal under investigation
By Melissa M. Bulgren
Kansan staff writer
A two-person panel has been appointed to review the dismissal of Tom Anderson, former director of facilities operations.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig appointed Richard Mann, University director for information resources, and Keith Nitcher, University director for business affairs, to review Anderson's appeal. Mann and Nitcher will make recommendations to Budig after the review.
"We'll just have to look at what happened," Mann said. "If the facts are correct, then we'll see if the remedy is correct."
David Hauber, Anderson's attorney, said Anderson was fired May 23 for using state telephone and fax lines for personal reasons.
Anderson, director of facilities operations from 1980 to 1990, declined to comment Monday on his dismissal. Anderson and Hauber will meet
tomorrow with Mann and Nitcher to discuss the appeal, Hauber said.
Hauber said Rodger Oroke, University director for support services, fired Anderson after receiving a letter that suggested Anderson might have been fired. Rodger Oroke refused to comment Monday on Anderson's dismissal.
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Board of Regents, received the letter from Joe Schaerer, chief executive officer of the Venture Bank, who based his letter on a book about motorcycle club. Koplik forwarded the letter to Oroke.
Anderson serves on the society's board of directors.
According to the letter, Schaerer and other society staff members had received numerous business calls from Anderson during business hours. Schaerer could not be reached for comment...
Hauber said Anderson made calls to the Las Vegas-based society as
part of a personal investigation of the non-profit society's finances.
"There was no intended misuse of state resources." Hauber said. "Mr. Anderson has reimbursed the University. He had intended to pay the University before the end of the fiscal year."
Huaer said that during a period of two years Anderson made personal long-distance telephone and fax calls from his office. Bills from the University were also sent to the University a $1000 check after the allegations were made, Huaer said.
According to the Handbook for Faculty And Other Unclassified Staff, personal telephone calls must not be charged to University telephones with the expectation of reimbursing the department.
my position is that the breach of guidelines in using the fax or telephone may be technical, but not intentional," Hauber said. "It doesn't justify him losing his livelihood."
New dean's philosophy is librarian as educator
By Ann Sommerlath
Kansan staff writer
William Crow, who will become the new dean of KU libraries Aug. 18, said he wanted to develop better partnerships between students and faculty to teach students how to better find information.
Crove, who has been assistant director for administration and technical services for Ohio State University's library system since 1983, will replace Jim Ranz, who will vacate the dean's position July 1. Ranz has been dean of libraries for more than 15 years.
"The major challenge of this job will be to teach students to think critically by working with the faculty to learn information-seeking skills." Crowd said. "It won't happen overnight. I try to have the students get the most out of the library."
Crowe grew up in Boston but said he loved coming to Lawrence.
His wife, Nancy Sanders, is a graduate of the 05.KU and a former Lawrence resident. Crowe has visited Lawrence several times.
"This is an extraordinary opportunity for me," he said. "It's the rare coincidence of three important factors coming together. The people who work with you, and community are all quite attractive to me." Crowe said.
Crowd will oversee more than 2.6 million volumes, a budget of $10 million and a staff of 455 professional assistants and part-time student workers.
The KU libraries are ranked 19th among public universities and are the largest among Big Eight Conference schools, according to the Association of Research Libraries.
Brower Burchell, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said to continue to upgrade this high ranking, Crowe will be challenged to convince the state to resume the Margin of Excellence and keep it going until the libraries are at the appropriate level.
are at the topmost level. Although Crowe will face budget and staffing problems, he sees the challenge as more philosophical.
"The major challenge is to find ways to prepare students for the world of the next century," Crowe said.
The library teaches people how to accomplish what they need to in life — how to write papers, give speeches and be educated voters, he said.
he said.
"Librarians are educators too," Crowe said.
At Ohio State, Crowe oversaw the acquisition and cataloging of library materials and supervised a staff of more than 100 full-time employees, he said.
Union to negotiate contract for nurses
employer. Prior to that, Crowe was assistant to the director of Ohio State's libraries.
By JoLee Fishback Special to the Kansan
The University of Kansas Medical Center's new nurses' union has begun working on a contract to present to administrators, the union's president
Jane Starz, president of the Kansas University Nurse* Association, said the contract probably would be presented to the administration within four or five months, signaling the formal start of the negotiation process.
The association, formed last year,
began representing Med Center
nurses May 3 when nurses voted 247-
to-53 and the union became the
nurses' union.
Starr said that despite the close vote union membership had continued to increase during the last month.
In the next two weeks the union will ask administrators for the information needed to prepare the contract, Starr said.
The association, which had 60 members before the vote, now has about 100 members, she said. Nurses have a month to be members of the union.
It will be the union's first official contact with administrators and probably will lead to informal discussions between the two groups, she said.
Paul Friedman, Rick Tamblyn and Paul Meler act out a scene from "Parking Squad."
The delay means the union probably will miss its August deadline for the 1991-92 budget, she said.
To help prepare for the potentially lengthy negotiations, union officers attended a collective-bargaining workshop last month in Omaha, Neb. Starr said. As a result, they decided to take more time to prepare the initial contract than originally planned, she said.
"If we want something that costs money, we can see if the funds can be reallocated." she said.
Starr said the union planned to take a close look at current Med Center funding by the State Legislature.
Richard Mann, University director of information resources, said the administration was pulling together members of its bargaining unit.
He said Jackie McClain, director of personnel at the Med Center, would handle the negotiations for the administration. Mama said she had been negotiating a negotiating team because of her history of working with the Med Center nurses.
ing will win the contract. Starr said union leaders would distribute a survey to about 650 full- and part-time nurses this month to determine what issues nurses wanted included in the contract.
Salaries and staffing would probably show up on the survey, she said.
ably show up on the survey, she said. "Of course pay is a primary concern," she said. "But stress is also a factor."
factor.
Some nurses leave the Med Center because it cares for more and for sicker patients than other area hospitals, Starr said. The Med Center admits patients with more serious illnesses because it is a regional medical center.
measures that Starr said she would propose a more stable patient-to-nurse ratio to help alleviate stress.
ransass law prohibits state employee union strikes but Starr said she did not think that would limit the union's bargaining power.
"You may have four patients one day and eight another," she said.
Live radio program ends season
"We feel like we have other ways to get what we want," she said. "We could try to get the public behind us."
Once contract negotiations are completed, both sides will sign a memorandum of agreement, said Monty Bertallt, executive director of the Public Employee Relations Board. The agreement's salary and benefit terms require the Legislature's approval.
KANU's show performed for sellout crowd
By Bryan Reber Kansan staff writer
Audience members smiled and laughed as The Imagination Workshop performed Saturday at the life show, which has live broadcast of its fifth season.
The workshop added a second show because tickets to the first show sold in four days, said Darrell Brogden, writer, producer and director for the workshop and program director at KANU.
The second performance of "The Best Of The Imagination Workshop," was broadcast live on KANU FM 90.1. More than 400 people attended the two shows, Brogdon said.
The Imagination Workshop, which had its first live broadcast on May 4, 1965, had ten actors this year. Autho- rised to hold each year for cast members.
In April, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting presented the Gold Award for Best Live Entertainment Program of the Year to the workshop:
"The competition is really stiff," he said. "We were pleased and shocked that we got it."
In 1989, the workshop received silver awards for Best Live Entertainment and Outstanding Technical Achievement.
Brodigon has been producing live radio shows since he was a student at the University of North Texas in Denton, now north Texas State University. It was then that he produced The Rocky Mountain Halloween night in 1975.
week night in college.
After completing his college education,
Broggen worked for several radio stations before joining KVLU.
Beaumont, Texas, as program director.
"One of the callers in the 'Mix. Fix' it skit was from Beaumont, Texas," said Brogden. "I don't know the names or other references from my experiences."
Brogdon said he wrote all the segments for Saturday's performances.
Paul Friedman, who played many characters Saturday, said the workshop was a labor of love.
"A number of us in the cast go back"
to the era when the primary entertainment was radio," said Friedman, who has been with the workshop for two years. "We have a great fondness for it. I feel sad at how radio is being homogenized today.
The comedy skirts ranged in length and subject. In addition to the longer skirts there were short commercials for Mom's Restaurant, "Where you eat what's put in front of you — or else" and Friendly Friend's Found Food, "Found on the highway where the trucks drive real fast."
Wes O'Neal, 9, said he encouraged his family to attend the Saturday performance of the workshop.
"I saw them when I went with a friend to the Good Time Radio Revue at Liberty Hall," O'Neal said.
O'Neal's grandmother, Opal Long, visiting from Colorado Springs. Colo., was among the family members whom the nine-year-old brought to the program.
to the prog. im.
"Besides being entertaining, it's interesting to see the whole process," said Long.
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