University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. December 7, 1988
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Copying cuts affect faculty
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The memo was titled "Budget Emergency."
The hire man was given "Budge extra, general."
It was a plea from Norman Saul, chairman of the history department, for faculty and staff to keep their copying costs down.
"It has simply gotten out of control," Saul's memo read.
By mid-November, with less than 50 percent of the fiscal year complete, the history department had used 70 percent of its $17,000 budget for copying, telephones and postage.
Saul said the budget crunch was a result of stocking up on overdue supplies, increased supply costs and a 40 percent enrollment gain in the department over the last three years.
"The bulk of the students are now moving into sophomore and junior classes, where there are more handouts and greater use of equipment," he said.
Saul met the problem by conservation measures. Faculty have staff do the copying. Materials are copied on both sides of the page. Teachers are encouraged to put handouts on hold at Kinko's Copies whenever possible, so students can pay for their own copies. They must also log their copies.
Saul's problem is not unique. Across campus, departments are losing the battle of meeting the increased cost of copying handouts and other materials.
“An overwhelming percentage of our other operating expenditures budget goes for copying,” said Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department. “We've already spent a lot in the year, but we are clearly hitting the halfway point early.”
One way the English department meets the increased copying costs, which especially affects its poetry and creative writing classes, is to make students pay for class handouts.
Chris Haven, Weatherford, Okla., sophomore, paid $20 this semester for handouts for his fiction writing class. But he said he did not have to buy a text, so it worked out for the better.
"It was cheaper than my other classes," he said.
"It was cheaper than my other classes," he said. The sociology department has been inundated by copying costs, said Norman Yetman, chairman of the department.
Yetman said faculty members must adhere to a copying budget for their own research and teaching needs, although not for their classes. They pay per page when they go over budget. Yetman called it a hidden tax.
"We're charging our faculty for the very things the University should pay for, for the privilege of doing their
Saul calls the copving crunch a University problem.
"We're starving," he said. "One faculty member told me. The University is doing less and less for me. It's a morale problem when it gets harder, a danger of a loss of trust, or not being doing anything for me why should I do anything for the University?"
Fictionally speaking
During an open mike night sponsored by Poets Alive, Mary Giles, Lawrence graduate student, reads her short fiction titled "Chapter One. An Introduction of Sorts, And The One Necessary Premise." About 30 people attended the event last night, in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Legislature sets year's agenda
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
Partisan division in the state Legislature is one of the biggest problems confronting state representatives and senators, speakers at the Institute for Kansas Legislators said yesterday.
Kansas Senate president-elect Paul "Bud" Burke, R-Leawed, presided yesterday and said after the speeches that while he was excited about his new position, he was also overly challenged.
The institute, held at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive, featured eight speakers throughout this week. The topic yesterday was "Strengthening Legislative Leadership."
"The euphoria hasn't hit me," said Burke, who ran against state Sen. Fred Kerr, M-RP, until Kerr withdrew from the race Sunday. "Part of that is because he doesn't know how long it time to heal before getting to the task of settling down."
He said that the Legislature will be facing the issues of a highway plan, the second phase of the Margin of Excellence, prison overcrowding, the possibility of rewiring school finance, medical malpractice insurance and reapportionment of the House and Senate.
"It's going to be partisan." Burke said. "Especially the reapportionment, because we're going from five to four congressional seats. In my view, the role of president is to make things move, make things happen."
Legislators from other states also spoke about partisan division and the role of senate and house leaders.
New Jersey State Rep. Charles Hardwick, a republican and speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, told a group of about 150 Kansas legislators that votes in his assembly were usually divided along party lines.
"I it's highly partisan," Hardwick said. "But you have to have regard for your members."
Connecticut State Rep. Irving Stolberg, a democrat, agreed with Hardwick. Stolberg is speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and also spoke at the meeting.
"Our budget is going to be the partisan issue of next year," Stolberg said. "The states are laboratories of democracy but there is competition within the Legislature."
The representative said that as long as he is the speaker, he'll continue to set the agenda.
Hardwick gave the audience his definition of the role of a leader in the Legislature.
"We've passed some pretty significant bills." Hardwick said. "You have to have the ability to move a group of people together."
But Stolberg said that the leadership must be sincere. He said that constituents needed to believe in their rights.
Stolberg, who is serving his third term as speaker, said that he had been adamant about the peace movement and the human rights movement.
"You have to show people that you believe things and that you're committed," Stolberg said. "You might lose votes because of the commitment, but you have to pursue the things you really believe."
Worker throws wrong switch causes power outage on campus
Kansan staff writer
By Mark Fagan
Kansan staff writer
Human error caused a power outage that left virtually all of main campus without power for about five minutes yesterday afternoon, a facilities operations official said.
Anytime you shut the whole campus down without power, it's a big problem. We were all scrambling all over the place.'
Richard Perkins, associate director of facilities operations for utilities management, said a facilities workers worker threw a wrong switch and caused the loss of power. The outage occurred sometime between 1:15 and 1:30 p.m.
- Richard Perkins
- Richard Perkins associate director of facilities operations for utilities management
"Anytime you shut the whole campus down without power, it's a big problem." Perkins said.
The worker was checking a capacitor bank, which stores electricity temporarily, when he threw the wrong switch. It tripped a
The only buildings unaffected by the outage were Green Hall, Learned Hall, Burge Union, Allen Field House, Anschutz Sports Pavilion and Burt Hall next to Learned.
breaker in the west relay station, in Burt Hall, which cut off the 12.470-volt power line that supplied power yesterday to all of main pumping plants.
Usually two lines serve main campus, but Kansas Power & Light was working on one yesterday, and it was not in service.
Perkins said the worker, who has been with facilities operations for about a month, thought he was opening a door that would allow him to look inside the capacitor. Instead, he threw the switch.
"He just wasn't as familiar with the system as he should've been," Perkins said.
He said although the outage did not cause any major problems, it
did keep facilities operations workers busy.
Not all buildings were blacked out for the entire five-minute period. Watkins Memorial Health Center and Mallett Hall, home to many science laboratories, have supply immediate power
"Hell, we were all scrambling all over the place." he said. "We had to go around and restart a lot of people. They didn't time checking all the buildings."
Phone lines also were knocked out in some buildings. Perkins said phone lines were tied into the main power lines in many of the buildings, and were thus knocked out for the five minutes.
Panel addresses women's interviews
By James Farquhar
In job interviews, an applicant hopes to sell himself as an asset to potential employers.
an important vocational employer.
But sometimes interviewers shop for workers in illegal and discriminatory ways, said Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Kansan staff writer
Ten people gathered in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union last night to learn about inappropriate questions asked in job interviews, and sexual harassment in the workplace.
"When they ask me, as a woman, questions that they wouldn't ask a man," she said, "that that's illegal and discriminatory."
The hour and a half seminar included two speakers: Ballard and Mike Rollet, assistant director of affirmative action. The event also had a two-person panel about women in the workplace.
The KU Commission on the Status of Women and Mortar Board co-sponsored the workshop.
Ballard said that when a woman interviewed for a job, she needed to understand that she had something to offer the potential employer, just as the employer might have a job to offer the applicant.
And when an interviewer asks questions which might distinguish one applicant on the basis of sex, it is illegal. For example, the interviewer oversteps his bounds when he asks questions about pregnancy or child care.
"When was the last time an interviewer asked a man, 'Do you plan to have a family?' " Ballard said. "When that sort of thing happens, it's important to recognize it and stand up against it."
She said if a question like that was asked the woman should say that the question was not relevant.
"First there's verbal harassment, which includes crude comments and propositioning," she said. "Nonverbal harassment includes cat calls and whistles. And physical harassment includes touching and patting."
Rollet said a person who fell harassed must first confront the person who was making him or her feel
She said that at the University of Kansas, a person who felt harassed could come to the affirmative action office for advice and intervention.
Marily Rbudy, Lawrence resident, and Ann Gardner, Lawrence resident and editorial page editor for the Lawrence Journal-World, were the panelists for the discussion of women in the workplace.
She defined sexual harassment as repaired or unwanted sexual attention, behavior that made another person uncomfortable because of sex. She divided sexual harassment into three categories.
The two-person discussion capped the seminar. Rhudy and Gardner spoke about typical situations facing
Rotlet's presentation included video excerpts to demonstrate sexual harassment in school and in the workplace.
"I think that when you do encounter sexism or conflict, it really helps not to come across confrontationally," Gardner said."
Rhudy said women sometimes applied inconsistent standards to themselves and their co-workers.
"Sometimes you can't have it both ways."
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