University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 23, 1990
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Proposed cuts worry SenEx
Committee leaders criticize Hayden's budget recommendations
Bv Pam Sollner
By Pam Sollner
Kansan staff writer
Reaction to Gov. Mike Hayden's budget proposal for fiscal 1991 topped concerns yesterday at the first Senate Executive Committee meeting of the semester.
Hayden's budget proposal excludes Margin financing because of the state's strapped financial status.
"Certainly, this is a year to be active," Scott said.
"We are not in an emergency by any means, but we do have some problems," said William Scott, chairman of SenEx.
He said it was important to coordinate efforts with the University administration and the Board of Regents to lobby for third-year Margin of Excellence financing.
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their schoolships and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
Scott and SenEx's presiding officer, Ray Moore, said other facets of the proposed budget were important, including student wages, money for enrollment adjustment and shrink-
He told the Regents about increased concern about the governor's proposed new method to calculate shrinkage rates. Shrinkage is the amount of money saved from hiring replacement faculty or staff members at lower salaries and from the time lag to fill an empty position.
Moore said he reminded the Regents at their meeting in Topeka on Thursday of the impact of Hayden's proposed cuts. He said the substantial reduction in the budget not only would wipe out the third and fourth years of Margin money, also would take back second-year financing.
The University estimates its shrinkage rate. Moore said that money remaining from the year's research was spent for research equipment.
would use actual shrinkage rates from the previous fiscal year, rather than estimates, to figure shrinkage.
In Havden's plan, the University
The rate established for one year might not cover the rate of the next year, leaving the University short of money for equipment, Moore said.
Moore said Regents institutions would be less competitive nationally as a result of the governor's proposal.
He said the lack of wage increases for state student employees compared with federally sponsored work-study employees could pose problems. When the federal minimum wage increases to $3.80 an hour, state student employees at KU will remain at $3.35 an hour under Hayden's plan. Moore said that two students could work side-by-side, doing the same job, and one would be nailed less each hour.
Artist strives for truth in expression
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, will address budget issues at the University Council meeting on Thursday, Scott said.
It did not take long last night for New York artist and photographer Duane Michals to get the attention of a packed auditorium at the Spencer Museum of Art.
"I am here to contradict you," Michals said. "It will happen by the friction of what you know and what you don't. I am the dreaded secular humanist that they all warned you about." Michals, this week's guest for the Hallmark Symposium Series, spoke to about 260 people.
Kansan staff writer
He said his techniques were simple and original. He works without a private photography studio or dark room and uses inexpensive photographic equipment, although he is
based in the visual arts hub of New York City.
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His final product is an "upside down" art in which he aims for truth's expression, he said.
"The subject of photography shouldn't be beauty but truth," he said, "and truth isn't always beautiful."
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In his multifaceted work, the spectator finds a collage of different artistic forms under one concept — expression.
"The key word is expression, not photography, not writing," said Michals, whose art includes photography accompanied by simple poetry or paintings, all of his own creation.
lacking," he said. "I write to tell you what you can't see in my pictures.
"I began to write about my portraits because I found photography
Thomas Allen, design professor for the school of fine arts, said that this was Michals' second appearance at the Hallmark Symposium lecture series, presented every other week to visual communication majors.
The product of Michals' 30 years in the visual profession includes 14 books of poetry and photography and numerous contracts with Vogue, New York Magazine, Esquire and many other publications.
"KU is in the middle of the country, and the students don't have the opportunity to see the art that's out there," Allen said. "With the lectures, they'll get a taste of what's available."
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