University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 18, 1988
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Faculty union yet an issue
Margin of Excellence financing will be a major factor
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
One year ago today, KU faculty and staff decided not to form a union, but a union organizer said yesterday that the issue was not dead yet.
"I think it will re-emerge," said Tom Madden, organizing director for the Kansas National Education Association.
On Nov. 18, 1987, faculty and staff decided with a 51.9 percent vote not to unionize the K-NEA received 25.5 percent of the votes, and the KU received 30.6 percent of the University Professors received 22.6 percent.
Kansas law prohibits conducting a second union election within a year of the first one.
Madden said that although he thought a second vote would be taken, the K-NEA did not have any plans in the works right now to call for an election.
"How soon that occurs I couldn't tell." Madden said.
Marion "Pat" Bickford, professor of geology and president of the KU Independent Faculty, a group that formed to oppose unionization, said that the group was only in skeletal form now.
"If the need arose, we could get
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Madden said that the Margin was a factor against unionization, but that the issue remained unresolved whether the distribution of Margin money to faculty was fair and equitable.
back together." Bickford said. "We hope never to do it again. I don't anticipate any renewed push for one as long as things go as well as they are now. It depends on what happens in Topeka and Strong Hall."
Bohn Hob, professor of education,
was spokesman for the KU-AAUP
last year during the vote. He said
that the KU-AAUP also would look
toward Topeka before deciding what
to do next.
"I guess we're going to wait and see how much support there is for us in the state legislature," Hohn said.
Bickford said that although the University of Kansas was not perfect, programs like the Margin of Excellence were helping.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring Regents schools to 95 percent of their peer
institutions in total financing and to 100 percent of their peers in faculty salaries.
Madden said that the Margin was a factor against unionization, but that the issue remained unresolved whether the distribution of Margin money to faculty was fair and equitable.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that the University had been successful.
"We are doing everything to distribute the money as fairly and equitably as possible," she said.
Ramaley said that a recent Regents review of the Margin's effects on all seven Regents institu- tions is being conducted to finan- cing fight was not over yet.
"We have a long way to go," she said. "I am certainly putting all my waking hours, one way or the other, on this research and more fundal for the University."
Ramalay said that KU had made some substantial gains but that work still had to be done to secure enough faculty financing.
"It is not enough to make me relax," she said.
She said that KU had made some substantial gains in the past year and that she saw a lot of support among faculty and staff.
Campus press group hoping magazine will make KU laugh
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
The Pinch Press Corps thinks humor should return to Mount Oread.
Mark Johnson, president and editor in chief, organized the registered campus group to produce a humor magazine. Five people attended the group's first meeting Wednesday night in the Kansas Union.
"We were looking to find stuff to fill in between the covers," Johnson said.
Johnson said that the idea of Pinch Press came to him at the end of September. He named the group Pinch Press for several reasons.
"The amount of puns you can derive from 'pinch' are amazing." Johnson said. "If we are ever in a jam, we can plagiarize under a column called 'Pinched.' But we're not going to do that."
Johnson, a Roland Park senior who is majoring in psychology and film, said he never had published anything that was on his mind. That he was discovering new talents.
At Wednesday's meeting, the Pinch Press decided on a 9-by-11 inch
magazine with 32 pages. Johnson said he didn't know when the first issue would come out because it was only in the planning stages.
The club is considering having about five fairly long humor essays in its magazine.
"Then we need what we call 'killer filler.' "' Johnson said.
Johnson and the press staff went to Student Senate for financing but probably ill be granted only enough money for office supplies. Student Senate will decide how much money the group will get next semester.
"Since we are a brand new organization, the odds of us getting $2,000 to $3,000 to print a humor magazine weren't good," he said.
So the Pinch Press will try to pay for the printing itself, a cost that Johnson said would run around $2,000.
Johnson said that anyone on campus was welcome to come to meetings and submit writing.
"We'll print anything if it's funny," he said.
Chris DeLong, the club's secretary and art director, said he was inspired
And the club brings a bit of lightness to DeLong's life as a senior in graphic design.
by his poetry teacher George Wedge,
who works on "Cottonwood of English,"
works on "Cottonwood of English."
"With the JKH format change, you're kind of depressed from time to time. The Wichita senior said, 'I feel like we're not ready and bring fun to the rest of campus.'"
DeLong would like a lot of satire in the magazine.
"we came up with some fun ideas at our first meeting." DeLong said. "We thought about putting up sheets in bathroom stalls so people would write one-liners on them. Then we'd go and collect them."
The staff at Pinch Press hopes that students will recognize its difference from "Disorientation," an alternative resource magazine.
"Our purpose is humor, while theirs is social consciousness," DeLong said. "'Disorientation' is a really valuable thing. It's pretty heavy stuff, but it's not really funny."
Shauna Norfleet/KANSAS
Joshua Dislmire, 2, and his brother, Jesse, 2; cruise through their neighborhood in a battery powered toy truck their grandmother bought for them. The two were out playing yesterday afternoon.
AT&T offering lower rates for students in residence halls
Kansan staff writer
Bv Jeremv Kohn
The University of Kansas' housing and telecommunications departments this week gave residence hall students another opportunity to make cheaper long distance calls through AT&T.
Company representatives registered 300 to 500 students yesterday and Wednesday at Ellsworth Hall and Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall for the new service, said Scott Jones, project manager.
The service, which provides reasonable long-distance rates for college students, began this August at KU when more than
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The service, called AT&T College and University Systems (ACUS), offers less expensive long-distance rates to students using a personal access code.
2. 100 students applied, Jones said.
2. IBD students applier:
The service called AT&T College and tuition (ACUS), offers less expensive long-distance rates to students using a personal access code.
"In all circumstances, the ACUS service
will be cheaper than a credit card call, and certainly a collect call," Jones said.
According to an A&T advertisement, a seven-minute ACUS call to Chicago, Ill., from KU would be $1.65 cheaper than a collect call, and 70 cents cheaper than a credit card call. Students would not have to pay any fees except their monthly bills.
Before the new AT&T program, residence hall students could only call collect or use credit cards for long distance calls.
Jones said each student would have a separate account, and could use the service only with their personal access code. Accounts have a $7 credit limit each month.
and service would be cut off if that amount was exceeded. However, students could use their credit card to make long-distance calls even if their ACUS account was full.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he accepted the system because it offered a less expensive, direct-dial service for students.
Brent Lamb, KU telecommunications customer service coordinator, said telecommunications was responsible for the University's phone service and AF&T's contract with the University. He said the department accepted the new long-distance option for students because of its cheaper rates for
students.
Although cheaper rates mean less revenue for AT&T, Jones said the company would still earn immediate profits. One goal of the program, he said, was to familiarize students with AT&T so they would continue service after they graduated.
And at least one KU student's parent said she liked the service's credit limit and cheaper rates.
Lana VanGiesen, mother of Lori Van
Giesen, Poplar Bluff, Mo., freshman at GSP,
signed her daughter up for the service.
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"If we could lower the rate and keep it to $75, that would be great," she said.
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