University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. November 22, 1988
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Sunset solitude
Two boaters at Clinton Lake use the last rays of daylight to fish. The KU Weather Service is forecasting a warming trend, but with continuing cold nights. The service is predicting a high today of 56 degrees and a low tonight of 29. For more details, see weather forecast on page 2.
Rock Chalk acts announced; Fraternity finally breaks jinx
By John P. Milburn Special to the Kansan
Winners of the five acts for the annual Rock Chalk Revue were announced last night, including one group that will make its first appearance since 1968.
"We've finally broken the jinx," said Brian Lisle, director of P1 Kappa Alpha's act and Clarinda, Iowa, sophomore.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, with its partner Chi Omega sorority, ends 21 years without an appearance in the annual fundraiser.
sophora Lisi said the key to breaking the jinx was the way the two groups worked together.
worked together.
Other winning acts are Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha
Kappa Lamda and Alpha Omicron Pi, and Sigma Nu and Alpha Chi Omega.
Noelle Applegate, spokesman for the Rock Chalk selection committee and Hays senior, said 11 groups auditioned for the February 1989 show. They presented musical acts on the theme "It's Classified." The groups were judged by a board of seven members from Lawrence, Topeka and the Kansas City area.
The five winners of the between-act segments will not be known until December.
an effort was made by the Rock Chalk board to include the entire KU campus, Applegate said. The production has developed the image of being strictly a greek activity, although it
never was meant to be that way, she said.
To change the image, the board added two male members from residence halls and one female from the Black Student Union. The board visited all living groups to encourage participation. However, the 11 entries for the main acts were greek groups.
Pay raises scheduled for some KU workers
All money raised by the event will go to the Lawrence United Fund to benefit local programs. Last year, Rock Chalk was the second largest donor to the fund, raising nearly $17,000. This February, the group would like to contribute the most.
"We've set our goal at $20,000 to $25,000." Applegate said. "It will be tough, but we think we can make it."
Hayden implements plan to increase salaries of about 300 employees beginning in February
oy Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
After a two-year wait, about 300 KU classified employees in custodial and food services will receive a pay increase, to begin in February.
But about 40 KU employees with the same classification — mostly in law enforcement and security — will increase. June to receive a similar increase.
David Lewin, director of KU personnel services, said base wages for food service workers were about $125 per worker and for custodial workers, $10,056.
The pay raise falls under Phase III of a statewide reclassification of classified employees, begun under former Gov. John Carlin. Phase III will be implemented Dec. 18 by the governor's order after two trips through the Legislature failed to obtain the financing.
Lewin said most of the employees would receive a pay raise of about 2.5 percent. But some, mainly new employees in entry-level classes, could receive a raise as high as 10 percent.
Gov. Mike Hayden said partial implementation statewide would cost $6.9 million this year and $16 million in fiscal year 1990.
to bring salary ranges for state employees closer to those in the private sector.
The reclassification is an attempt
private Sector.
Judy Tomei, president of Classified Senate, explained the variation in size of the raises.
"Those (entry-level) classes are so far down on the pay scale, and they make such terrible wages. Those are the ones that need the most assistance," she said.
Tomei said she wished law enforcement and security classes would have been implemented at the same time, because those employees also faced salary problems. Classified Senate will continue to push for further implementation of the reclassification plans, she said.
sincere talk. Sgt. John Brothers of KU police and past president of Classified Senate, said he was glad to see implementation after a two-year delay.
But he said, "I'd like to see some assurances in writing for the people who haven't been (included) yet — something in stature."
Brothers said he was grateful to Hayden for having the courage to implement it essentially on his own, by executive order. At the same time, Brothers expressed some skepticism because of the delays.
"I don't think anybody's going to
spend it until they see it on their check," he said.
Carmela Sibley, legislative committee chairman for Classified Senate, said some KU classified employees still would need to be reclassified after Phase III was completed.
Phase III includes more than 8,000 state employees in direct care classes, primarily at Social and Rehabilitation Services institutions, in service work and in law enforcement and security.
Spud Kent, head of the compensation and classification unit for the state Division of Personnel Services, said Phase I, which included clerical classes, was implemented in December 1966. Phase II, implemented in December 1987, included labor and trade classes and also some health care classes originally for Phase IV.
Frank Ybarra, deputy press secretary for Hayden, said Hayden decided to issue the order rather than wait for the Legislature because the state's improved financial condition allowed immediate implementation.
Hayden last year vetoed an act by the Legislature that would have implemented Phase III in a limited scope and for a limited time.
Designing information
Lecturer works to make data less complicated
By M. Meredith Relph Kansan staff writer
Saul
"Most of the stuff around us looks like an airport, but it doesn't inform," it said.
Richard Saul Wurman has a singular passion in life — to make things understandable.
he said. "We react in a knee-jerk way to catchwords, but we really don't learn anything."
Wurman, an architect, designer and author, has spent 27 years trying to make information make sense to people. He spoke last night to about 100 people at the Spencer Museum of Art as part of the Hallmark lecture series.
Tom Allen, professor of design,
said the Hallmark lecture series was
designed to bring the best artists and
designers from all over the world to
“(Wurman's) business is understanding information.” Allen said. “He stands alone in his field.”
Wurman's company, Accesspress
Ltd., has offices in New York and San Francisco. He helps design Pacific Bell Yellow Pages, informational booklets and maps. Many of his booklets are color-coded and indexed by category and location rather than in alphabetical order.
Wurman said that a simple structure made things more understandable, but most data was too complicated.
ms work includes a medical information booklet that was named one of the 10 best medical books in the United States, and was the only book of the 10 not written by a doctor.
But Budig says KU still needs significant state support
Officials praise KUEA gains
By a Kansan reporter
University administrators are pleased with the increase in the Kansas University Endowment Association's assets but say KU needs to continue pursuing private support.
plum. "It was another good year," said Chancellor Gene A. Budig about the association's annual report released last week. "It is a clear reflection of confidence by many people."
According to the report, the value of the association's assets increased about $15 million to $207,460,992. That endowment leads Big Eight schools and KU's peer schools.
A.
"A state institution cannot be excellent in this day and age without significant private contributions," Budig said. However, Budig added, that the association could not solve the University's fiscal worries.
"It the assessee legislatures of state support," he said. Paveley, executive, vice chancellor, echoed
Budig said the association's support had given KU an edge over other universities.
" (The association) does not and should not replace legislative, levels of state support," he said.
A state institution cannot be excellent in this day and age without significant private contributions.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, echoed
-Gene A. Budig Chancellor
Budig's comment about private contributions to the University.
"Private support is vital to our future." Ramaley said. "It allows us to be more than we could ever be on our own."
Ramaley said private support developed scholarships and grants that attracted quality students and financed research.
"Our research mission will never be sustained by the public sector alone." Ramaley said. "Private support gives us that extra amount of energy."
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said the increase in asset value would allow the association to continue developing its University support programs.
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