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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 31, 1995
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Group funding isn't by fate
Senate votes who gets student funds
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
This group has more than $1 million of your money at its disposal, and it uses the money to finance events and organizations on campus.
The Student Senate has a budget of $1,291,300 for the fiscal year of 1995. This money is taken from the student activity fee of $28 and a majority of it already has been spent.
For a group to receive money from Senate, it needs a senator to write and propose a bill. The bill is sent to a committee, such as University Affairs or Arts and Events. If the bill passes its designated committee, the bill is sent to the Finance Committee. The committee either approves the bill and sends it to Senate or rejects the bill. If sent to Senate, the bill will either be passed or defeated. If passed, Student Body President Sherman Reeves has the option to veto it.
Finance Committee Chairwoman Stephane Guerin said members of a group usually know or trust the senator who proposes the bill.
The Finance Committee and Senate always have the option to amend bills.
Senate generally allocates funds to organizations in three different ways: it grants line-item allocations and block allocations to groups and also finances from an unallocated account.
Line-item allocations are financed on a one-year basis.
Groups that seek line-item allocations must be registered with the Organizations & Activities Center, and their requests are reviewed by the Student Senate Finance Committee between Feb. 1 and March 15 of each fiscal year.
An example of a group that received line-item financing is the Commission on the Status of Women. The commission received a total of $636 to finance a film festival and educational advertising
"They do scrutinize what you apply for, and I'm happy with that," said Renee Speicher, chairwoman of the commission. "There's only so much money, and everyone's vying for it."
Block allocations are given to groups for two-year periods. The Finance Committee had to decide by Nov.15 which groups receive block allocations.
For a group to receive block allocation financing, four criteria must be met: The group needs to show it provides a tangible benefit to KU; the group needs to show that it is a consistent, working organization; Senate must have allocated funding to the group for three years; and the group must show that it needs money on a two-year basis.
For the fiscal year of 1995, Campus Transportation received $332,950, the most block allocation given to any organization.
Last semester, after the Finance Committee denied block funding to the University Dance Company, Campus Transportation and the Elections Commission, Senate sent the Finance Committee's decisions back. Senate wanted the three groups included for block allocation funding.
Where the money goes
Here's a listing of the budget breakdown from student activity fees for the fiscal year 1995:
Senate Treasurer Chad Browning
Group allocated funds Portion of activity fee Total allocation
Black Student Union $0.36 $16,793
Campus Transportation $7.22 $332,950
Chamber and Concert Music Series $2.12 $97,700
Elections Commission $0.16 $7,200
Graduate Student Council $1.82 $83,700
Headquarters $0.76 $35,000
Hilltop Child Development Center $0.36 $16,441
KU Bands $1.78 $82,175
KU Forensics $0.23 $10,800
Legal Services for Students $4.29 $198,000
Multicultural Center Apportionment $0.43 $20,000
Rape Victim Support Services $0.52 $24,000
Student Bar Association $0.14 $8,320
Student Senate $1.78 $82,000
University Dance Company $0.16 $7,200
University Theater $1.36 $62,500
Women's Transitional Care Services $0.22 $10,000
Student Organizations $3.38 $156,000
Unallocated Account $.92 $42,521
TOTAL $28 $1,291,300
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Source: Student Senate budget
said Senate previously had the option to overrule the committee's decision and amend the bill.
"We changed the rule so that the bill would be sent back to the finance committee," he said.
Browning said the rule was changed because members of the Finance Committee were better educated to amend a bill since they had spent hours reviewing it.
account is given to groups throughout the fiscal year. The unallocated account began the year with a budget of $51,052.52 and now has $21,867.52. Browning said that those figures had not been updated since last Wednesday's Senate meeting.
The money in Senate's unallocated
An example of a group that had received funding from the unallocated account is Habitat for Humanity. The group received $249 for fiscal year 1995.
Burglaries increase in Oread area
Lawrence police report four burglaries occurring in a four day span last week
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
After visiting friends Saturday night, Mathew Hayes, Kansas City, Kan., senior, returned to his Jeep parked in the 1900 block of Massachusetts to find that his Franklin planner and personal checks had been stolen.
According to Lawrence police, Hayes had three strikes against him.
Sgt. Rick Nickell of the Lawrence Police Department said thefts in areas such as the Oread neighborhood were more common because of the high concentration of people and
and 17th streets. The neighborhood does not include University property.
No.1, he didn't have locks on his doors. No.2, he left valuables in the car. And No.3, his car was parked in an area that Lawrence police say is more susceptible to burglary
than less crowded neighborhoods elsewhere in the city.
Between Wednesday and Saturday, Lawrence police reported five crimes
— four burglaries and one criminal damage — in the Oread neighborhood. Hayes' Jeep was parked just outside of the neighborhood, which lies between Massachusetts and Michigan streets and between 9th
cars.
"What they have in the Oread neighborhood is a lot of parking on the street," Nickell said. "The cars are bumper to bumper, and that's what a thief is looking for, many opportunities."
will burglarize.
Nickell said that career thieves walk up and down the street, looking for valuables in cars and choosing the ones they
To prevent a break-in, students should make sure they have adequate locks and use them, Nickell said. Often, students will leave for a short
Buildings and cars are common targets for thieves because people don't lock them, Nickell said.
"There are people out there who work those arrests to get by," he said.
A crime wave in Oread Neighborhood
Between Wednesday and Saturday, four cars and two houses in or near the Oread Neighborhood were broken into. Police have not ruled out the possibility of a single thief, but are investigating each crime separately.
time and not lock their houses or cars, which puts them at risk, he said.
Nickell recommended that students lock valuables in the trunk when they leave their cars. Students should never leave valuables in their car, no matter what safety features the vehicle has, he said.
"If someone can see it, that will tempt them," he said. "If the item is valuable enough, it doesn't take much to pop a window and get it."
To protect their homes, students should lock down their houses as if
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they were leaving town. Nickell said
Lawrence police have not determined if the crimes in the Oread neighborhood were committed by the same suspect or suspects.
Nickell said that it was common for Lawrence police to arrest people on theft charges and discover that they had been involved in other burglaries.
Students who see a person or group of people walking from car to car and looking in are encouraged to call police, Nickell said.
KANU: Director fearful of cuts
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between cutting the staff he needs to operate the station and cutting his National Public Radio programming.
"It would have a devastating affect on our service, probably in the quality of our service, the kind of service, and it would have a devastating affect on our private income and our listenership," Hill said.
He compared the station's reliance on CPB funding as being like a domino effect. If the station loses federal financing and is forced to cut programming, they will lose listeners, listeners' contributions and corporate underwriting, putting an estimated additional $400,000 at risk.
An 18-year veteran of the station,
Hill has seen budget cuts before.
During the past five years, his budget has been cut 20 percent, forcing him to put off equipment repair, lose programming and eliminate an engineer, news reporter and program host from the staff.
Yet Hill is not the only one who faces difficult choices. Lawmakers weighing CPB financing against many other demands question continued support for public broadcasting in an age of increasing media diversity.
Dan Hubbard, Chesterfield, Mo., senior and KANU listener, is asking the same questions. "There is not a need for the public to fund a tax-based broadcast system," he said.
He said Americans had many choices on cable television, satellite television, the Internet, newspapers and magazines.
Hill has heard the argument before but said, "It's awfully hard to put cable in your car, or listen when you jogging. Most people don't have cable in their offices."
He said that public radio filled a
void in broadcasting, contributing to an informed electorate.
Hubbard said he wasn't convinced by such arguments.
Laws addressing radio licensing will not permit the station to make the transition to a commercial system should its funding disappear.
"The laws have been arranged so that they can't get the money they need," Hubbard said. "Let's change the laws so they can get the funding they need."
Those who support federal funding of public radio do not see this as the answer. Hill does not feel the market forces will be able to fund the same kind of cultural and news programming the station offers.
"We are doing some things that, while they are popular, they are costly," he said.
He said other stations did not offer the same sort of programming because there are so many contenders in the radio market that other stations cannot afford to produce this sort of programming and still make a profit. It is cheaper to have someone read the wire and play the music than to produce programming, Hill said.
The debate is far from over. The Budget Committee of the House of Representatives conducted hearings two weeks ago, and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico, the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, had asked his colleagues to submit lists of programs ripe for the budget ax. Hearings also will be conducted in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which oversees the subcommittee on communications. These hearings will not focus on the financing of public broadcasting but on its structure and whether it should exist at all.
The Associate Press
Senate rejects House version of sales tax bill
TOPEKA — Senate rejection of the House version of a sales tax reduction bill, abortion and unfunded mandates imposed by the federal government on states were prime topics as the Legislature opened the fourth week of the session.
The Senate turned down House amendments to the sales tax bill, sending it to a joint conference committee.
The bill started out as the Senate's effort to repeal two 2.5 percent sales taxes — on labor services for new construction and utilities used in manufacturing.
But the House added a raft of tax breaks, including amendments to remove the sales tax from remodeling and car repair services. House members also increased the rebate that low-income families receive
for the sales taxes they pay on food and exempted Girl Scout cookies.
The Senate's action came on a voice vote. Senate and House negotiators will attempt to work out a compromise version.
So far this session, the bill has become the focal point of legislators' efforts to cut taxes, which many see as a mandate from the Nov. 8 election. Six bills to reduce motor vehicle taxes also have been introduced.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee agreed to draft a bill that would make it a crime to cause a woman to have a miscarriage but not define the fetus as a human being.
The subcommittee decided to draft a bill patterned after a New Mexico law that sets penalties for people who cause a woman to have a miscarriage.
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