Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-06-03

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" u tom00' 00 Patsy H. Sampson, former liberal arts dean at Drake University, was chosen from six finalists.
Patsy Sampson
Stephens College names first woman president
By Major Garrett
Mlaaourian staff writer
Stephens College's first mman president, Patsy
Sampson, brings with ber from Drake University
in Dca Moines a reputation as an administrative
pioneer and communicator.
" Through careful contingency planning, Patsy
began two new acsdeniic programs with an essen-tially
stagnant budget," said7 WQliam Klipec, as-sociate
dean of Drake's Liberal Arts College. " She
provided careful leadership that was well re-ceived
by faculty."
Ms. Sampson, SO, former liberal arts dean at
Drake, was named Tharsdayto bead Stephens.
KUpec said Ms. Sampson was Drake's only dean
to address the need to plan for possible retrench-ment
in light of decreasing enrollment at private
colleges.
" We havent cut or reduced any programs," he
said. " But Patsy has showed us what works best
for us."
Faculty involvement in negotiations over which
programs held the highest priority was a hall-mark
of Ms. Sampson's three- ye- ar tenure at
Drake, he said.
" She quieted fears of the faculty by assuring
mem they would have a say in any new program
plans," he said. " The faculty always knew her
plans were evolutionary instead of reactionary."
Ms. Sampson enhanced communication within
the college by bringing faculty scattered across
campus under one roof. " Stephens College now
has an excellent administrator and leader," he
said.
Reaction at Stephens was just as positive.
" I'm wonderfully excited for Stephens' future,"
said Micheal Bowling, mathematics instructor
and member of the presidential search commit-tee.
" She's going to bring new direction the col-lege
will be able to rally around."
Jean Roeschlaub, chairman of Stephens' Board
of Curators, said, " Dr. Sampson is uniquely qual-ified
to provide the strong leadership the college
needs."
Ms. Sampson was selected by the curators from
a field of six finalists, and will assume leadership
of the predominantly women's college July 1. She
replaces Arland Christ- Janne- r who announced his
intention to resign last October. Christ- Jann- er has
acted as president since the formal search for
president began four months ago, and will stay
until Ms. Sampson takes command.
Chnst- Janner'- s eight years as president were
marked by falling enrollment, budget deficits and
faculty discord.
The faculty's opposition to Christ- Jann- er came
to a head in 1980 with a " no confidence" vote fol-lowing
a series of faculty layoffs.
Because of those layoffs, Ms. Sampson will in-herit
a budget that's nearly balanced. Nonethe-less,
she doesn't deny that Stephens has problems
" We have to work to heal the wounds of this col-lege,"
she said. " We have to emphasize academic
vitality and growth."
Bolstering enrollment to stabilize the college's
cash flow will be a top priority, she said
Ms. Sampson said her first task will be to ac-quaint
herself with the complexities of Stephens
Only then, she said, can she plan for the future.
" I have a strong feeling that Stephens holds
great promise," she said. " We must unite to solve
the present problems."
Ms. Sampson said careful scrutiny of the col-lege's
academic programs is essential. " We have
to determine our strengths and weaknesses," she
said. " And in that process we may find areas
where reductions in favor of stronger programs
will be necessary "
But before any cuts are made, Ms. Sampson
promised to consult and confer with the Stephens
community.
Faculty reaction to Ms. Sampson's appointment
was markedly different than it was when Chnst- Janne- r,
the 18th male president in the college's
history, was appointed. Barnes said Chnst- Janne- r
was given an icy reception by faculty. They re-quested
that he reconsider accepting the presiden-cy
since they had unanimously supported the oth-er
candidate, Martha Church, president of Hood
College
The situation was different with Ms. Sampson.
A reception with faculty and staff before the an-nouncement
early Thursday was jubilant, Barnes
said More than 300 faculty, staff, students and
alumnae were present As Ms. Sampson entered
she was greeted with a standing ovation.
Panel endorses
for University
By Tom Dixon
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A day after
a House- Senat- e Conference Commit-tee
agreed only to disagree, the 10
legislative conferees made headway
Thursday on settling differences on
the state budget, particularly the
University budget
The committee tentatively ap-proved
a proposal giving the Univer-sity
system $ 1 million less than the
current fiscal year for its general op-erating
budget
The committee now must give fi-nal
approval to all other appropria-tion
bills Each chamber then must
ratify those recommendations
University lobbyist Duana Luwille
called the conference committee ac-tion
a good compromise
" I am very happy," she said. " It
could have been worse Lord, we
were way down there in the begin-ning"
If the committee action holds, it
means the University system would
get $ 166 million for the fiscal year
beginning July 1.
The conferees tabled discussion of
any increase to state public schools.
Senate Appropriations Committee
Chairman Edwin Dirck, D-- St Ann,
said the conference committee
would not decide on increasing the
current level of $ 699 million that the
School Foundation Formula is re-ceiving
this year until the governor
acts on the schools' opening bill
Waiting on Gov. Christopher Bond's
desk is a bill designed to bolster
state tourism by delaying school
openings until after Labor Day
" We want to put the governor's
seat to the fire," he said ' fye'Uwait
to decide on that until after we've
considered all the bills "
The Senate on Tuesday had fin-ished
paring more than $ 100 million
from the House's budget recommen-dation
Dirck said he wants the state
to have a $ 120- milho- n operating re-serve
so Bond would not have to
withhold any state appropriations
The Senate's conference commit-tee
chairman also argued that the
state cannot afford the House's pro-posed
$ 34 million increase for state
aid to public schools and $ 16 million
for higher education
The Senate last week approved the
appropriations committee recom-mendation
that the University sys-tem
receive $ 3 million less than this
fiscal year But the House two
months ago approved a proposed $ 2
million less than the $ 169 million that
the General Assembly approved.
The first few days have been typ-ical
by conference committee stan-dards.
As in the the early rounds of a
boxing match, both sides were sizing
each other up while not backing
down Dirck fired the first shot when
he refused to yield on any increases
for public schools
Still, Rep. Francis Barnes, R- Kirk- w-ocd,
offered a proposal that would
boost the School Foundation Formu-la
and higher education budget $ 12
million and $ 6 million, respectively,
above the Senate's figure But he
said there would be an operating re-serve
of $ 96 million.
DC-- 9 bursts into flames,
killing 23 of 46 aboard
FLORENCE, Ky ( UPI) - An Air
Canada DC-- 9 jet with 46 people
aboard burst into flames in flight
Thursday night and crash- lande- d at
Greater Cincinnati Airport. At least
23 people were killed
Witnesses said the flames burned
numerous holes in the body of the
plane, which came to a halt in the
middle of the runway. The fire was
extinguished quickly, officials said
" There are 23 fatalities," airport
spokeswoman Lynn Sutter said. " We
do not know how many others are in-jured
" The plane was en route from
Dallas- Fo- rt Worth International Air-port
to Toronto with 41 passengers
and a crew of five
Two people were admitted to Wi-lliam
Booth Memorial Hospital for
smoke inhalation and other minor in-juries,
officials said. Three people
were admitted to St Elizabeth South
Hospital in Covington, Ky, across
the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
Crash photo Page 10A
Thursday's disaster on Air Cana-da's
Flight 797 was the third serious
incident in less than a week involv-ing
a DC-- 9 aircraft.
A crash earlier Thursday in Jakar-ta,
Indonesia, killed three people
Last Saturday, a Republic Airlines
DC-- 9 made an emergency landing 18
miles short of its Phoenix, Anz , des-tination
because it had not been re-fueled
before takeoff.
Shortly before the crash, the
plane s pdot radioed the regional air
control center in Indianapolis that an
engine was on fire, FAA officials
said He was instructed to make an
emergency landing at Cincinnati
Airport
Late Thursday, airport officials
continued their search of the wreck-age
to be sure they had removed all
passengers and crew.
Murray's lawyer questions liability and negligence of agencies
ByTcmLacey
Mteaourian staff writer
tBae attorney who defended Robert Murray
agwjst charges that he unjustifiably shot
narajs& iiis adoptive but abusive father, is
rata0tt3& that local social service agencies
SeaipKg with the dead man were negligent in
plac children in the Murray home.
As evidence, attorney Timothy Harlan
points to file suffering of many foster chil-dren
all of whom were boys during their
stay in the Darryl Murray household.
Daring his three- da- y manslaughter trial
last week, Robert Murray said his father
was too strict with the adopted and foster
children, mat he often beat them with belts
and paddles. Robert, 24, also told of enemas
that Darryl gave the boys and of the homo-sexual
overtones mat often preoccupied fam-ily
life inthe Murray home.
Rarlan thinks the agencies that placed the
boys in the home should bear some of the ha--
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bOity for the abuse they experienced. He
says that if the state Division of Family
Services had answered a complaint prompt-ly,
the investigator would have found the
home in an uproar.
" Darryl Murray was gone three days a
week," Harlan says, who contends Murray
could not manage the other children without
Robert's help.
Spokesmen for the Division of Family
Services say there is only so much they can
do in investigating cases under their juris-diction.
Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley says,
" The case is complete as far as I know." He
anticipates no further criminal actions
against anyone with regard to the Murray
case and dcesnt plan to pursue the case.
Moseley says that incidents of alleged
abuse in the Murray home remain unclear
because of conflicting testimony He also
says he does not know of any negligence by a
state official that would involve criminal ac-tion.
But imposing questions remain un-answered
in the Darryl Murray case
k-- Does liability for the alleged sexual and
physical abuse of children extend beyond
Darryl Murray as Harlan suggests?
f How is it possible Murray could have
obtained as many juveniles as it has been al-leged
he did?
Why were they all boys between the
ages of Sand 12?
v And how could Darryl Murray's alleged
abuse have remained undetected for so
long?
In the placement of children in the Murray
home, Harlan says that there is " no question
that there is some negligence involved"
Robert Murray's testimony in court indi-cated
that some of the 30 to 40 juveniles sent
to the Murray home for foster care over a 10- ye- ar
period were physically and sexually
abused at the hands of Darryl Murray after
he became licensed as a foster parent
According to court testimony, agencies be-sides
the Division of Family Services were
involved.
Troy Pogue, social services supervisor at
Family Services m Columbia, could not com-ment
on the number of the juveniles sent to
Murray that originated with Family Serv-ices
He does say, however, that the 30 to 40
juveniles generally cited by the press is
wholly in error. He says that there is no indi-cation
other than newspaper accounts
that anything like that number of boys were
involved.
Pogue says that it is not the nature of
Family Services to be investigative as a po-lice
agency might be It is the purpose of
Family Services to evaluate applicants for
foster care and adoptions and to investigate
charges of abuse and neglect when they are
made to the division office.
But Harlan maintains that Family Serv-ices
did not live up to its stated objective in
investigating reports of this nature in the
Murray case. Harlan points to an anony-mous
report made to the agency office at
4: 50 pm on the day before Thanksgiving last
year Harlan says the person who took the
report testified in court that she was follow-ing
office policy m not immediately respond-ing
to a report until after the holiday period
because it was vague and did not seem to be
an emergency.
Pogue says this is not true. He says it is the
policy of the agency to attempt to follow up
such reports within 24 hours If the social
service worker can't respond, it's his or her
responsibility to assign the problem to some-one
who can
Short of a police state or of electronic sur-veillance
devices in the home, Pogue says
See TRIAL, Page 1CA.
Study shows industry bears brunt of electric bills
By Donna Biddle
Mteaourian staff writer
m 1977, a study showed that residential
users weren't paying their fair share of
electric costs. The Water and Light Advi-sory
Board and the City Council respond-ed
with a 12 percent across- the- boar- d rate
increase.
A city study presented Wednesday
night to the advisory board has concluded
the same thing.
Now the advisory board faces several
cottons. It can recommend either that the
rate structure be changed or that the elec-tric
rate be increased. Or both.
According to the city study, Columbia
residents paid $ 10.5 million to the electric
utility in fiscal year 1982. However, it cost
the utility $ 11.8 million to provide them
with electricity. Industrial and commer-cial
customers subsidized residential us-ers
and made up for the utility's losses.
" There certainly will be a base rate in-crease,"
said David Wollersheim, chair-man
of the advisory board. " How large of
one, I have no idea."
" But I don't think there's any way to
have the residential class pay its own way
all at once. It just wouldn't be good busi-ness,"
he raiiL
Wollersheim said there are two reasons
why residential users aren't paying as
much in the long run. One is mat com-mercial
customeis dont have to pay out
of their own pocket, he said. It is easier
for them to pass on the cost increases
The other reason is a question cf politics,
he said. Fewer voters are involved when
you raise commercial rates.
tWheo" lTlreehrsseihdreeeimntiaswlaicedlr. aes" sEvisneornyootnsreeuakrlpnlyorwipssaeytsihn, a" gt their fair share. But it's not typical of lust
Columbia."
" In 1975, Columbia residents paid the
highest average electric bills among test
cities. In a similar survey taken in 1980,
Columbia customers had the third highest
bills. Columbia ranked fifth highest
among 10 cities surveyed last month. In-dustrial
electric customers in Columbia
now have the second highest bills among
test cities.
;
Although odds favor a rate increase,
other options are being discussed And
none of these options are exclusive,
Wollersheim said
More rate incentives will be offered, he
said. " Now it's easier to generate differ-ent
rates because of computers."
Water and Light Director Dick Malon
suggested looking at ways to give people
breaks for energy efficiency, which helps
to decrease the system's load during peak
hours
Lower rates could be offered during
non- pea- k hours daily and seasonally, said
Bill Schneider of the department's rates
and fiscal planning division. He wrote the
See UTILITY, Page 10A.
Commercial Electric Bills 1
for 2,000 KWH May 1 983
( Single Phase, Secondary Voltage 10KW)
Board of Public Utilities, Kansas City, Kan .$ 200 67 1
Kansas City, Mo, Power & Light .$ 182.03 1
Missouri Public Service, Sedalia $ 176 72
St Joseph Light & Power $ 174 50 i
Missouri Power & Light. Jefferson City $ 166 05 1
Empire District Electric, Joplin $ 132144 1
City of Independence $ 12479
City of Columbia $ 12154 8
Union Electric Company, St Louis $ 118 25 I
Southwest Electric Cooperative, Oliver $ 11580 I
Boone Electric Cooperative, Columbia . $ 114 70
Webster Electric Cooperative, Marshfield $ 108 75 J
City Utilities, Springfield $ 108 59