UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 17. 1996
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KU hopes for administrative muscle
By John Collar
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas would gain greater control of tuition payments from a Board of Regents plan that has been endorsed by Gov. Bill Graves.
The tuition-accountability plan would allow the University to keep a portion of tuition income when enrollment is greater than previous levels. The University now must send the surplus to the state.
"It will allow us to retain tuition and direct those resources to institutional priorities," said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor, said the plan would allow administrators to hire new instructors when enrollment increases. In the current system, the University has a two-year time lag in responding to enrollment jumps, he said.
Last year, KU's enrollment fell below projections. The Legislature
should have provided funds to make up the shortfall but decided not to, said State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, and director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
"They changed the rules." she said.
They changed the rules, she said. As a result of this change, the Legislature trimmed $1.58 million from the governor's proposed budget for the University. This reduction was worsened by a $1.2 million decline in overhead funds for research. As a result, the University delayed faculty raises until this month.
"There's never been a deficit of the magnitude we had last year," said State Rep. Troy Findley, D-Lawrence, who supports the accountability plan.
Following the tuition dollar...
The plan would require the University to make up the income shortfall when enrollment falls below previous levels, but the benefits from keeping the additional tuition would offset this situation, administrators contend.
Student enrollments are expected to increase in the coming years, Ballard said.
Source: Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice-chancellor Noah Musser/KANSAN
The tuition-accountability plan would be implemented in July at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
The governor's total budget package for the University proposes $313 million in fiscal 1997, a 1-percent increase from last year's budget.
New town center to receive alcohol permit
By Amanda Traughber Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission last night requested city staff to prepare an ordinance allowing alcoholic beverages to be served in a new recreation center.
The ordinance would allow liquor and cereal malt beverages to be served in the new Union Center Depot, 402 N. Second St., which will be the home of a visitor's center and two public meeting rooms.
Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation, said a need existed for the ordinance because the department already had received several requests to rent rooms for private parties.
"We think we can control it, and there's a market for this in the community," he said.
Mike Wilden, city manager, said that in most public parks, consumption of cereal malt beverages, or 3.2 percent beer, was allowed. However, consumption of hard
liquor is not permitted. The only city building that now allows cereal malt beverages and liquor is the Lawrence Arts Center. The ordinance would require people wishing to rent rooms at the depot to accept the following restrictions:
guests of private parties at no charge.
Alcoholic beverages cannot be advertised, and it is the applicant's responsibility to provide the beverages.
Alcoholic beverages cannot be
served to minors, and the applicants must assume responsibility to determine consumers' ages.
Alcoholic beverages cannot be taken outside the building or be accessible to the public.
The permit to serve alcoholic beverages must be posted in plain view where the beverages are being mixed or served.
Applicants must see that guests do not become intoxicated.
GTAs' complaints will be heard soon
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer.
KU officials plan to meet with GTA union members and the Kansas Association of Public
A hearing to settle a complaint filed in August by KU graduate teaching assistants against the University of Kansas has been scheduled for Jan. 31 at Robinson Court in Topeka.
Richard Buck, chairman of the GTA union negotiating committee, said University officials maintained that GTAs were to be excluded when Kansas legislators voted last April for a 3.5 percent pay raise.
Employees to determine whether the University used un-fair labor practices by denying GTAS at a 3.5 percent pay raise that was given to KU faculty this January. The case will be tried before a Public Employee Relations Board officer.
"We feel it is a retaliatory measure for us unionizing," Hellekson said.
The GTA union has asked key legislators to testify in the hearing to prove a mandate did not exist, Hellekson said.
Buck said that certain legislators had indicated to the union that they were not interested in forcing the University's financial hand but that they had allocated
Karen Hellekson, GTA union president, said after speaking with legislators that she did not think the mandate existed. Instead, she said she thought the denial of a raise was a form of punishment from the University.
the appropriate funds to the University and would allow it to spend the money as it deemed necessary.
"We think it's going to be clear, hands down, that there wasn't a legislative mandate." Buck said.
Because the University has said following a legislative
decree, proof gained through legislator testimony that there was no mandate should force the University to approve the $160,000 GTA payraise, Buck said.
The original Dec. 7 hearing date was postponed because Scott Stone, executive director of the association of public employees, requested more time to gather key witnesses. Stone will argue on behalf of the GTA union.
Air Force ROTC aims high by scouring for new pilots and navigators
by David Teaka Kansan staff writer
We need pilots.
So says the sign outside the Air Force ROTC offices in the Military Science Building, advertising the service's need for students who want to fly or navigate planes.
Since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the military services have seen an unforecasted trend develop. The military has downsized, and military
operations involving the United States in regional conflicts such as the Persian Gulf War, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia, have increased, said Col. Rick Hunter, professor of aerospace studies at the University of Kansas.
"The tempo of our operations has increased more than we thought," said Hunter.
The result has been an increase in the need for Air Force pilots and navigators.
20 percent increase in pilot and navigator slots available to newly commissioned Air Force officers, Hunter said. The numbers are expected to double next year, he said.
This year, the Air Force has had a
Hunter is well-suited for the job of recruiting students to enroll in Air Force ROTC.
He flew combat missions for one year in Vietnam and spent 12 years flying the F-15, acquiring nearly 4.000 hours of flight time.
The Air Force program at the University has seen an increase in students who have gone on to pilot and navigator training. One student who graduated in May 1995, 2nd Lt. Steve Tittel, left last week to start pilot training at Shepherd Air Force Base near Wichita Falls, Texas.
Another student, 2nd Lt. Rick Karn, is "snowbirding," a term used to indicate an officer is waiting for a flight school to start. Since graduating last May, Karn has had his school date changed three times. At this point, Karn doesn't have an actual
"I was kind of upset at the time," Karn said.
school date, so he's keeping busy doing administrative work for the various ROTC instructors.
Karn said it was standard for graduating students to have to wait for a year or more before they start a school.
Despite the long wait for schools, Hunter said he was seeing young people get more interested in the Air Force, and because of recent changes regarding women in combat, the opportunities for women were just as good as those for men.
"They can fly anything in the inventory," Hunter said.
Air Force ROTC expect eight students to graduate in May, Hunter said.
Two women have been selected for pilot training.
Overall, Hunter said, Air Force ROTC has seen enrollment numbers increase from 1,477 in fiscal year 1995, to 2507 expected for fiscal year 1997.
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