Vol. 99, No. 32 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday October 11, 1988
Fall rents could rise because of higher tax
By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer
An increased property tax for Lawrence this year could be partly responsible for higher rents next fall.
William L. Lemesman, Lawrence apartment owner, said that some landlords might take advantage of renters who are using their rent by up to 10 percent.
But he estimated that the rent to tenants of his apartments would increase by about 3 percent because he owns a private apartment market in Lawrence.
An increased property tax for Lawrence this year could spur local apartment owners to raise rents next year. But some owners say increased competition may keep rents down.
"People will be fighting for ten ants, and one way they will do this is to keen rent down," he said.
Lemeshow and his family own their complexes, including West Eight University Apartment, University Terrace Apartments, 502 Country Club Terrace, and Avonion
"They don't have to increase rent to cover it, but they usually do," Pitner said.
Darlene Hill, county budget directive,
amounting to $200, or 18% tax rate, increased
to $350, in 1987 and 1697 mills this year.
A mill is $1 in taxes for each $1,000
mill.
Julia Pitner, president of the Lawrence Tenants Association, said apartment owners should not use the carpet as an excuse to inflate their rent.
This means that property owners will pay 4.8 percent, or $13.20, more for each $1,000 dollars of assessed property value.
The prospect of paying more rent next fall doesn't appeal to Shelly Roths. Shawnee senior.
"Trying to make it now is difficult enough." Roths said.
"With that much more, I don't think we'd live there next year," she said.
"Because of the competitive market, we may have to stay at the same price." Burch said.
She said that a 10 percent increase in rent at their apartment would be problem for her and her five roommates.
However, some apartment managers and owners said that because of the increase in their rental market, they didn't know how the tax increase would affect the rent.
But Ray Thurlow, owner of Naims丛平 Place Apartments, 1502 W. 25th Court, said he had not used the money to buy the apartment determining his $3/2 to a percent rent increase next fall. He said he would not keep rent down because of a
Jalene Burch, manager of Heatherwood valley Village Apartments, 240 Heatherwood Drive, said that most apartments increased by rent this year. She was sure how the tax increase would affect her租金 next fall.
John Fickel, Prairie Village senior, prepares a metal sculpture for a building practicum class. Fickel was working in the courtyard behind Lindley Hall yesterday.
The work of art
Debate preparations start Nominees to compete in final round at UCLA
The Associated Press
George Bush and Michael Dukakis courted the support of Italian Americans in competing College Day appearances yesterday that left plenty of time to polish off a few weeks' week 2 and final presidential campaign debate.
Dukakis proposed a plan to make it easier for first-time home buyers to finance their residences. He then marched in a Columbus Day parade up Fifth Avenue in New York City and drove down New York Mayor Ed Koch and K.F. Kennedy.
Bush took a turn at a pool table in an Italian neighborhood in New Jersey, bouncing the 4. No ball in the corner pocket while the morning patrons cheered. After that came a speech on crime.
Both camps said they expected the 90-minute debate to be held at 8 p.m. by CPR Thursday night on UCLA campus, and the presidential rivals are flying to the West Coast today to prepare.
The candidates exuded confidence as they began the final four weeks of campaigning, which opened with two new polls putting the two candidates in a virtual dead heat.
Their daily campaign rounds over, both men hustled back to their political labs to resume preparations for the upcoming election.
An ABC News-Washington Post poll yesterday gave
bush 20% to percent 47% for降水. The survey
showed that the majority of Americans
point margin of error
A Los Angeles Times released poll results yesterday showing the effects of Quayle's press on the GOP. The poll found that 48 percent for the Republicans to 41 percent for the Democrats — but Bush leads Dakos 48-39 if the two parties don't collide.
Quayle was in Ohio and Michigan, where he offered another answer to the question in last week's debate that plagged him: what would he do if he suddenly became president.
"Obviously, you do different things under an assassination. The first thing you do in an assassination — I would go to the phone and call the head of the CIA and see what he thinks it was. You don't convene the CIA and say what he thinks it was."
He said he would make a request to speak to the nation and would consult with U.S. allies.
"You get your secretary of defense, your national security adviser, your Secretary of State and meet with them immediately. In the situation of an illness it would be a different type of situation," he said.
Campaigning in Levittown, Dukakis outlined a plan that be dubbed "Home Start" that would allow first-time home buyers to use their Individual Retirement Account or tax-deferred pension savings for a downpayment on a house. law prohibits the use of these funds without payment and in some cases advocates a penalty for withholding
Campus police under scrutiny about records
By Jay A. Cohen Kansan staff writer
The Kansas attorney general office last week completed an investment gation into the unauthorized release of the KU police department documents.
The department has not finished an internal investigation of the matter it began about two weeks ago, said Denney, director of KU police.
Denney said the documents in question, which were released between Jan 1 and Aug. 25, might have been lost or investigated and investigative records. The official documents have been recovered, but Denney didn't know whether copies had been made. The documents were not personnel records, he said.
Denney would not comment further on who was involved and how the incident happened.
Release of criminal history records is prohibited by state law. Investigative records and personnel records do not have to be released to the public because of the possibility of civil liability. Release of personnel records of Kansas civil servants is prohibited by civil service regulations.
Denney said the incident involving
the documents was discovered in late August and the chancellor's office requested the attorney general's investigation.
The purpose of the attorney general's investigation, Denney said, was to ensure the department should conduct the investigation. However, the department's investigation began before the general's investigation was complete.
Mary Horsch, press secretary for the attorney general's office, said that the report was finished last week and sent to the chancellor's office. She said the investigation was carried out by the Criminal Division of Attorney General's office but that did not necessarily mean a criminal act was involved.
Denny said that he had not seen the report and that he could not comment on the internal investigations orolved confidential personal matters.
Exhibition game ticket sales slow
Investigation records are kept confidential to the protect of the privacy of the person whose records become allegations and information in the records may be damaging or misleading.
Kansan sportswriter
It appears that few fans will show up for Danny Manning's return to Allen Field House.
It is even possible that Manning might not show up because he has yet to sign a contract with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Angeles Clippers.
As of wester day, only 3.25 tickets have been sold for the Nets-Jerseys New Jersey Nets NBA game sched uled for 7:30 p.m. thursday
Mike Mimis, events coordinator for Sports Productions Inc., which is sponsoring the event, said there were major reasons for the low ticket sales.
"A lot of fans don't make a decision to buy tickets until two weeks to 10 days before the game." Minnis said. "Also, we're having to battle the palisades with all games in the league." Obviously, we are far from sold out.
Manning's decision to hold out for more money might also have had an effect. His teammates from the Minns said he was confident that the 6-foot-10 Olympian would be a force.
"Once we get the Danny sign, it will be a big boost," he said. "Danny said in a recent article in the L.A. paper that he wanted to be there (the field where he worked) soon. When he does sign, we'll have a press conference and do some
exciting things that should generate more public interest "
Manning and the Clippers are reportedly 2 million apart in their negotiations. Manning is asking for $100 million, which the Clippers are offering 6 million.
Sports Productions, Inc. is sponsoring 23 NBA exhibition games across the United States this fall, and will be offering the games sold to near capacity.
The Chicago Bulls New Jersey Nets game scheduled for Oct. 28 at Devance Center in Lincoln, Neb. is the first of 14,000 tickets had been sold
At Kansas State, however, only 1,500 tickets have been sold for the Daila Mavericks San Antonio Spurs and the Chicago Bulls. The game will feature former Wildcat standout Rolando Brown and former coach Kansas Coach Larry Brown.
Dr. Davsbode, who works in the K-State ticket office, said poor marketing has contributed to the low ticket both at Kansas and Kansas State.
Mimis said that all bailout ticket sales had been sold at K.State, he expected them to pick up after Black Friday and the conference to promote the event.
Minnis said he was optimistic that a big crowd would welcome back Manning.
"We anticipate a large walk-up crowd." he said. "Many students probably won't make their decision whether we go or not until that night."
Tickets for the game are $15 for the general public, $10 for students and $5 for children.
Television class still without equipment
Semester production projects delayed six weeks by camera repairs begun in July
By Katy Monk
kansan staff writer
Luceyan Kerry, assistant professor of theater and film, teaches the lecture part of the class. She said laboratory equipment had been in illness since July for repairs by the manufacturer, AVIC
Students in Basic Television Production class may have had lights, but they've no cameras.
Editing equipment was returned Friday and cameras are expected as early as today, Kerry said. The first lab of the semester will take place this week.
"We've lost six weeks of work," said Joyce Benno, Leavaged junior. "We've missed it hours so far."
Enough time remains in the semester for students to complete class projects. Some laboratories exercises will be combined, and students will be given as much access as possible to the equipment.
But Craig Campbell, Coffeyville junior, said the situation would be hard on students.
(She 'Kerry) is trying to combine a whole semester into two months." Campbell said. "I'm going to be difficult for us to fit all that in. It's like doubling our class loads."
The problem, Kerry said, occurred because the equipment needed more work than either the school or the manufacturer realized at first. The school was sent out as early as the fiscal year would allow.
"There was never any intent that it was going to drag on this long," she said. "The whole intent of sending the equipment out was to avoid the risk of getting caught in a middle of production and everything breaks down."
The University of Kansas' fiscal year begins in July.
Kerry said he had expected the equipment to beACK by the first part of August.
Ronald Williams, chairman of the theater and film department, said part of the delay had been
acquiring funds for the additional repair costs. Because the equipment was in such bad shape, repairs cost about three times the original estimate, or more than $3,000.
"We were into the semester before we in fact found the money," he said.
But Wilms said the equipment could have been returned three or four weeks ago if the company had made a mistake.
Laboratory instructor Dennis Christies, graduate teaching assistant in theater and film, said he thought the class could achieve its objectives despite the delay.
“It’s only unfortunate that we haven’t had the leisure of time,” he said.
Christie said that he shared students' frustration but that problem caused by the delay were not.
Labs will begin this week whether the cameras are arrived or not. Christies said. Students can ask questions at the Labs.
"I think we'll be able to pull through." he said.
TOPEKA - The new list of the 400 richest people in the United States features four Kansans, including one billionaire, accorded by Magazine's "Forbes 400", which was released yesterday evening.
The Associated Press
The richest man in Kansas, with an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion, is the late Joseph Koch of Wichita. Koch inherited his fortune via Koch Industries, an urban plaza and office building.
Koch is one of 51 billionaires on the list and is listed at the same net worth as August A. Busch Jr.
Ewing M. Kauffman, the founder of Marion Laboratories and part owner of the Kansas City
Forbes lists 4 Kansans among richest in U.S.
Royals, has a net worth of $740 million. Although his company is located in Missouri, he lives in Mission Hills, Kan.
Donice Joyce Hall made his millions, an estimated $660 million, at Hallmark Cards. One of his sisters, Barbara Hall Marshall, with an estimated net worth of $285 million, calls Kansa City, Mo. home
the fourth Kansas member of the "Forbes 400" is Miller Nichols of Prairie Village. He made his estimated $300 million through including developing the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
Sam Walton, 70, easily held the No.1 spot in the United States for the fourth year in a row.