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Vol. 99, No. 36 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday October 17, 1988
Hayden has Washburn plan Proposal to add school to Regents may be linked to Margin
By Laura Woodward
Kansan staff writer
Gov. Mike Hayden said Friday that the climate was the most favorable in his 16 years as a legislator and governor for bringing Washburn University into the Board of Regents system, and he gave strong indication that he would propose its admission to the 1989 legislature.
Hayden said that such a move likely would be part of a package plan including second-year financing of the Margin of Excellence and community colleges and vocational technical schools.
"The whole idea is to bring higher education into a more cohesive body in terms of funding," Kathy Peterson, Hayden's press secretary, said yesterday.
Peterson said the three elements in the package were not contingent upon each other, for approval.
Washburn is a property tax supported, four-year
city university in Topeka with an enrollment of about 6,500.
"I think municipal universities are a thing of the past," Hayden said.
Judith Ramahley, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday she wasn't surprised that there was a lot of activity on campus.
Stanley Kopilk, executive director of the Regions, has Hayden's package addressed three dominant elements on the agenda of higher education.
"First, Washburn is not a model that is effective Second, it is in the capital city," she said.
"The thing that I recognize in the governor's statement is that he is trying to bring all the answers together," she said.
Ramaley termed Hayden's proposal a "higher education package." She related some of what John Duggan, inaugurated yesterday as the president of Washburn, said at his inauguration speech.
"He (Duggan) reiterated that he has to assure the presidents of the Regents schools and the chancellor that the inclusion of Washburn into the Regents system could be done gradually and without jeopardizing the Margin of Excellence or base funding of Regents schools," she said.
Duggan said yesterday that he didn't want to make a statement until he had more information.
The Margin of Excellence is the Regents three-year plan to increase financing of the Schools schools to 95 percent of peer averages and faculty salaries 15-30 percent of their peers.
Hayden said he would visit with legislative leaders before he gave a final recommendation. He said the state was in a strong financial position and gave a general fund balance in excess of $800 million.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
KU student,18,dies after Missouri crash
By a Kansan reporter
An 18-year-old KU student died Saturday from injuries she suffered in an automobile accident early Friday morning.
said.
Kloeckel was traveling east on Interstate 70 east of Columbia, Mo. when she lost control of her car and collided with another passer car. Her car crossed the median and collided head-on at 7:35 a.m. with a westbound Lincoln Junction traffic block, 86 of Chesterfield, Mo., a suburb of State Highway patrol spokesman
Machena was taken to Columbia
Morgan Regional Hospital with serious
injuries. No other people were
interested in the case, the car,
driven by Michael Sandulo,
34 of St. Louis, Mo, slid into
the cars after the initial contact
Klocoe was active in Arnesty International, Express Club and Drunk Driving and Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a family spokesperson.
"She was an organ donor, which really illustrates her philosophy in life, that even in death she was still a leader to the lives of others," the spokesman said.
Steve Nguyen
Vietnam escapee's convictions forced him out of home
By Katy Monk
Kaneon staff member
Saigon was falling when Steve Nguyen fled Vietnam.
He was lucky. The United States, tearing for its citizens' lives, was intent on evacuating them as the city was under attack by a government worker to a U.S. beat.
He left the country with only a phone as his first diplomat, a phone from his high school, a diplomat to its town and barfoot, and he didn't know the boat he had boarded was for him.
The refuges spent seven days on the Pacific Ocean before the U.S. Navy rescued them.
It was 1975.
Nguyen is a U.S. citizen now. He has spent most of his time the past year at Learned Hall, doing research in computational mechanics and working toward a doctorate in computer science. He is on leave from a job with BRACImonea, a job he has held since 1982 the year he got his citizenship.
Last month, Nguyen was awarded a Strobel fellowship, one of the prestigious awards of the School of Engineering, a school official said. It was not the first time the university was the Robert M. Caray fellowship from the mechanical engineering
department. Together the two provide $12,000 this year toward his doctoral degree.
"At the beginning, I didn't plan my life this way," he said. "I was just picking up along the way."
His first job, as he saw it, was to pick up English. He had been sent to a refugee camp in Pennsylvania and after that he moved to Springfield, VA, where he was sponsored by townpeople. It was from one of his sponsors that he got the name Siron. In Saigon, he had been known as Ferdinand.
A part-time student at Northern Virginia Community College during that time, he was picking up hours, moving toward a degree or a degree.
In his first months in the United States, Nguyen worked as a cleaner, a dishwasher, a fry cook. Finally, he got a job repairing equipment for
"In 1979, when I saved enough money, then I moved on," he said. "I went to the University of Oklahoma, where my academic career started."
The bachelor of science degrees he earned in Oklahoma, in petroleum
Please see ESCAPE, 6. col. 3
Drivers take back seat advice
By Craig Welch Kansan staff writer
Once the bandannas were wrapped tightly over their eyes, the participants behind the wheel ate a "buy seat drive" order.
Eracing against the clock, each passenger navigated a blindfolded towel. She turned with cries of "turn here," or "make a hard right turn"
The two-person teams took the turf course and an on-the-road course suffaced with orange highway cues and hay bales in the parking lot of Gibson's home.
The event, sponsored by the Lawrence Jaycees, raised about $700. Their goal was to earn at least $200 to purchase a tombstone for Richard D. Settlemy, a 9-year-old Lawrence boy killed in July. The excess money will go to the elementary school where Settlemy was born. Settlemy, said Bob Forbes, administrative director of the Lawrence Jaycees.
"The whole thing was a very big success." Forbes said. "I think everyone involved went home feeling satisfied with the results."
All of the equipment for the contest, including three trophies, two golf carts and numerous cones, was donated by Lawrence
Many area businesses paid the $20 entry fee and sent employees to the contest.
Todd Nuss, Russell sophomore and Hillcrest Ames team most in need of a starting pitcher. He just asked if we'd like to go and I thought it sounded like fun so I
Every cone that was hit or run over cost the team 2 seconds. A dented hay hale was a loss of 5 seconds.
The winning team, Steve's Quality Meats, nabbed the first place after defeating Langhorne Real Estate teams and teams had tied for first place with a time of 90 seconds. Steve's won the drive-off with a time of 70
Randy Graves, the driver for the winning team, said, "I felt like I was on the moon somewhere."
While blindly navigating his way around a small track in the parking lot beside Gibson's Discount Center, 2825 Iowa St., Todd Nuss, Russell sophomore, takes directions from Janice Stephan, Bonner Springs
businesses. The only cost incurred by the Jaycees was the $100 liability insurance.
Sue Settlemyre, Richard's mother, watched the event with her family.
"I think it is really nice of them to do this for Richard," she said. "It makes me realize that there are still people who really care."
Traffic cones and hay bales lay the backseat driver's course in the parking lot beside Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St.
Apartment vacancies
Apartment surplus could mean lower rents
By Jeremy Kohn
As recently as last year, students had a share of difficulties in locating available apart-
Kansan staff writer
Jalenda Motley, Kansas City, Mo., senior
had no problem finding an apartment
"It was easier this year compared to other years because there are more apartment buildings."
*Last year at this time, you could beg, borrow or steal an apartment, said Price Meyer, an attorney for the firm.
And Glen Lemesay, manager of Southbridge Plaza apartments, 1704 W. 24th St., said that his complex usually was full by the end of August. Now it is at 88 percent occupancy.
But the pendulum of the apartment market has swung from high demand and low supply to a market where apartment units outnumber demand
"I'm still trying to rent apartments," Lea-
sany said at the end of September.
City officials and area apartment managers may an enrollment decrease this fall at the university of Kansas and overbuilding of apartments in long-term years has helped create an apartment glut.
This means students wanting to rent next night might find lower increases in rent. In this situation, the student may need to live arrangements, special services and reservations from apartments owner to attract more clients.
Enrollment decline
For the first time since 1883, KU's fall enrollment dropped. Lawrence campus enrollment decreased by 235 students, according to University Relations.
Gary Toeeben, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said the enrollment decrease affected changes in apartment construction and vacancies.
The Caplan study was commissioned by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
"The decreased demand coupled with increased supply means there is an increased number of apartments still available for rent," he said.
"They're going to have to take a little less of the pie." Clements said, referring to apartment owners.
Marvin Clements, Douglas County reappraisal coordinator, estimated that the current overall vacancy rate for Lawrence apartments was 14.3 percent and that the average percent vacancy rate for the first five months of 1987, according to a 1987 Lawrence residential market study by Richard Caplan and others.
Jane Allis, manager of Colony Woods Apartments, 1301 W. 24th St., also attributed the current rate rate at Colony Woods to the work of the staff. She answered to say what the exact vacancy rate was.
"Colony Woods is well over 50 percent full," she said in late September.
Cynthia Berner, Weston, M. mo., junior ivory-
Colony Woods Apartments, said extra parking
spaces, less noise and empty apartments
that are more people living there this
semester than last year
"The buses are as crowded. I haven't stood up once," she said. "There is a lot more room."
City records and the Capita study showed Lawrence had 9,018 apartment duplex, triplex
But fewer students live off campus now. The number of students living off campus has increased.
Fred McElhene, director of residential programs, said the number of off-campus students depended on inflation rates and the cost of living
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