UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 31, 1997
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Templin Hall attractive to returning residents
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
A survey by the Department of Student Housing showed that many students who live on campus want to live in Templin Hall next year.
The department sent intent to return cards to current residents at the beginning of the spring semester. The residents filled out their intent to remain or to leave on-campus housing and their hall or room preferences.
The housing department has compiled the results and mailed contracts to the residents who wish to live on campus next year.
Kami Thomas, assistant director of the Department of Student Housing, said that 175 current residents wanted to live in Templin next year. The number was the highest among all residence halls, although Templin's maximum occupancy is the lowest at 290.
"Since it's new and renovated, students are interested in Templin." Thomas said. "The suite is also attractive to them."
Thomas said that 1,400 students will come back to on-campus housing next year, according to the occupancy report compiled on March 21.
Six hundred students in residence halls, 320 students in scholarship halls and 480 students in Jayhawker Towers plan to stay on campus next year.
These students were 21 percent of the current residents, Thomas said.
Intent to Return
Results of intent to return cards as of March 21:
600 students for residence halls
320 for scholarship halls
480 for Jayhawker Towers
■ Corbin Hall—5 (320)
■ GSP Hall—16 (430)
■ Ellsworth Hall—129 (650)
■ Hashinger Hall—61 (320)
■ Lewis Hall—56 (420)
■ McCollum Hall—101(950)
■ Oliver Hall—56 (650)
■ Templin Hall—175 (290)
*Numbers in parenthesis are the maximum occupancy.
The percentage was slightly lower than last year, but some students haven't returned the cards yet.
The housing department gives hall or room preferences to students who returned the cards by February 21. Upon receiving the cards, the housing department sent a contract to the students. If they sign the contract and make a payment by April 1, they will get priority status.
But even if students returned the cards before the deadline, it does not necessarily mean that they will be able to live in Templin.
The housing department has a separate selection process for Templin residents due to the hall's academic focus. University scholars will have the first priority, followed by new Honors Floor and KU Experience program students. Returning residents and new KU students will have the last chances to get a room in the residence hall.
"Since it's new and renovated, students are interested in Templin. The suite is also attractive to them."
Kami Thomas assistant director department of student housing
The cost for a Templin room varies from $4,700 to $4,860 while the cost for other residence halls is from $3,736 to $4,644.
John Yoo, Independence, Mo., junior, indicated that he wanted to live in Templin on his intent to return form.
"I have been here for three years, and I wanted to try something different," he said.
Technology funding debated
Regents seek money for modern equipment
By Ann Marchand
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Funding for technology improvements at Board of Regents institutions yo-yoed this week as the House and Senate debated parts of the budget bill.
Gov. Bill Graves, in his State of the State address in January, said that he would support a one-time $7.5 million technology expenditure.
Maintaining high-caliber technological equipment is a priority for the Regents this year, executive director Steve Jordan said earlier this month. The Regents requested a one-time $12 million allocation to upgrade technology at the six Regents institutions.
But the House did not endorse the Governor's recommendation. The appropriations committee proposed a one-time allocation of $4 million.
When the budget bill reached the House floor for consideration, conservative members attempted to delete the technology funding from the legislation. The amendment passed. But after later reconsideration, the $4 million was restored.
Rep. Troy Findley, D-Lawrence, said that providing students with cutting-edge technology would be a continuous expense for the state and should not be a one-time program.
"Technology improvements are definitely going to be an ongoing expenditure," he said. "We need to address short-term needs as well as long-term needs."
Members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee agreed with Findley. The committee recommended that $4 million be built into the base funding level for higher education so that the Regents could count on the money each year.
Ways and Means chairman Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, said that the rapid rate of technological advancement meant universities would need to upgrade equipment every year.
"It was our belief that the Regents would be better off with a smaller amount of money that they could count on every year," he said. "If we buy $7.5 million worth of equipment now, three years down the road we're faced with obsolescence, and we have to do it again."
But Kerr said that the ongoing funding could be abolished this week as the House and Senate tried
The proposed amount of money The Board of Regents will spend on technology next year has changed many times since January.
Technology Funding
Amounts indicate a one-time allocation unless otherwise noted.
Noah Musser/KANSAN
Graves will support whatever funding level the legislature hands him. His press secretary, Mike Matson, said that the governor trusted the decisions made by the House and the Senate, but that he would like to see some money for technology included in the final package.
to hash out their differences over the technology funding.
"He is obviously pleased that there is still money there," Matson said. "Ultimately, he will support whatever the legislature comes up with."
Classified Senate member in hot water
By Sean Demory
Kansan staff writer
Policy shifts and re-evaluation marked a special procedural meeting of the Classified Senate Wednesday.
The meeting was called to discuss the actions of a member who had been reprimanded for leaking information to the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition.
According to a letter sent by Richard Kershenbaum, Classified Senate member and manager of Technical Services at the Computer Center, statements were made by Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, regarding the status of GTAs.
Thelma Simons, president of the Classified Senate, which represents classified employees of the University such as some secretaries and members of KU police, had been approached by GTAC to speak at a rally. She asked her fellow members of the public relations committee whether to attend and whether attendance would be in the best interests of Classified Senate.
According to Kershenbaum's letter, Hutton said that graduate teaching assistants have nothing in common with classified staff because they are not employees, but merely interns who are preparing for a privileged position in society.
Hutton was unavailable for comment about this statement.
Kershenbaum sent e-mail documenting this to Karen Hellekson, former president of GTAC, who passed the message on to the Kansas Association of Public Employees.
He also sent a copy of the e-mail message to Simons who, acting on a vote from the executive council of Classified Senate, wrote a letter to Kershenbaum reprimanding him for acting against the spirit of Classified Senate's code. Kershenbaum responded by tendering his resignation.
At the meeting, Simons said that the significance of Kershenbaum's actions were based in the potential damage done to Classified Senate. There was some disagreement about whether Kershenbaum's actions were actually harmful to Senate or merely not in its best interest.
Although there were irregularities in the procedure, the assembled senators agreed that Kershenbaum's actions were not in the best interest of Classified Senate. The senators voted to have a letter sent to Kershenbaum stating their willingness to have him serve out the remainder of his term.
Dave Young, a member of GTAC's steering committee and a graduate teaching assistant in Spanish, attended the meeting as a representative of GTAC. He said that he hoped that Kershenbaum's actions and the response to them wouldn't strain employee relations at KU.
"The most important thing is that we are all employees of KU," Young said. "Attacks are coming down at all levels on public employees. We have to work together."
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