THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.105
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, March 11, 1976
Nonchalance marks reports of FBI spying
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Committee OK's KU budget items
Bv SHERI BALDWIN
Staff Writer
TOPEKA-Subcommittee recommendations on University of Kansas budget requests were adopted by the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
The subcommittee placed Malott Hall above Robinson Gymnasium in priority and chopped $88,366 from Gov. Robert F. Bennett's recommendations.
Bennett had recommended $88,773,854 for KU operating expendits and capital improvement requests. Subcommittee recommendations of $87,906,488 were accepted, $3,751,991 less than KU's initial request of $81,657,479, made last year.
Budget recommendations by the KU Management Council, presented, but adoption was postponed until this afternoon, when recommendations for the Wichita State University branch will be made.
The committee's decision must still be approved by the full House, the Senate Ways and Means Committee, the full Senate and Bennett.
THE MED CENTER subcommittee recommended the hospital receive its full 12 per cent increase for other operating expenditures (OE). Nonhosting activities were cut from 12 to 10 per cent, as was the Lawrence campus' OE percent.
Also consistent with the Lawrence campus were reductions in unclassified teachers.
Med Center salary increase and OOE percentages had been excluded from the general policies of increases of 8 per cent for salary and 10 per cent for OOE set institutional institutions. Further subcommittee study was said to be necessary at that time.
Subcommittee chairman James Cubit, R-Garnett, said KU administrators had given a big pitch in the last two years for a science department that agreed that Malott Hall was overcrowded.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE therefore
recommended the Malott Hall addition proceed to construction and the construction of the Robinson Gymnasium as a replacement location of the Federal Revenue Sharing Program.
Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Aitwood, said, "We're saying let's take the planning money and get it planned (both projects), comes right down to it, let's build Malut."
Hayden said the Malott Hall addition would cost between $3 million and $4 million more than the Robinson Gymnasium adjoining it, also would require more planning funds.
"It's fiscal responsibility to spend more to build something of a lower priority," he said.
The subcommittee agreed with Bennett on most of his recommendations, including $256,314 for an additional fiscal 1978 utilities reimbursement package. The current higher-than-estimated enrollment. However, items differing from Bennett's recommendations made up the bulk of the report, including two program improvements that Bennett didn't recommend.
Occupational and speech therapy clinics at the Bureau of Child Research would have half the cost of two requested positions and one third would be souls so the two clinics could remain open.
THE ADDITION OF $20,000 for the audio-reader program was made because the program "seems to be very worthwhile, but it is low key right now."
A recommendation was made impacting $80,088 in fiscal 1976 expenditures and required the department to expect expected loss of capitation grant funds by the department of pharmacy. The capitation funds were received for the next year but are indefinite for fiscal 1977
maintenance and remodeling be reduced by $100,000 for recoording of Strong Hall.
KU didn't receive the roerophone funds last year and Bennett made no specific recommendation this year. It was understood by the committee, however, that Bennett intended the $100,000 to come from the $1.5 million Regent fund.
SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS said projects specifically requested should be specifically funded, not shelved into general funds.
In its tour of the Lawrence campus Feb. 2, the subcommission found a lack of maintenance on a number of buildings. Moisture See BUDFG.006.079
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Cigarette tax passes; radiation fund deleted
By SHERI BALDWIN
TOPEKA-A - One-cent cigarette sales tax increase was approved yesterday by the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. The medical Center were removed from the bill.
Originally Senate Bill 897 required that 10 per cent of the revenue collected by the one-cent tax would go to a Med Center radiation treatment fund, which the bill created.
Committee chairman Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, said the real objective in removing the Med Center clause was to quiet the tech industry. But he'll have would have a better chance to pass.
Guar said a 10 per cent allocation of the one-cent tax revenue to research funds would slight possible state and local government revenue receipts.
The remaining 75 per cent of the revenue now will go to the state general fund.
AS EARLIER provided, 25 per cent of the as-1 tenant tax revenue created by the bill will be distributed to Kansas counties on the basis of population. That money will be split between cities in the county on the basis of the population and the county general fund.
Lower satellite union cost sought
Staff Writer
The Satellite Union Task Force last night examined preliminary blue prints to determine where services should be placed in the new building. It also considered cutting some services and areas to save construction costs.
By MARTISCHILLER
The CUES survey, released in 1975, showed that 89.9 per cent of the students surveyed wanted a satellite union, he said, and a bookstore with a following services: a post office, snack bar, SUA ticket booth, information and sales counter, bookstore, meeting rooms, check-cashing service, lounge space, self-service department, typewriter rental service and supply
The task force also discussed the possibilities of including a travel agency service, a franchise food service and a disc bar similar to that in the Hawk's Nest.
Harry Wigner, Ludel junior, said he had talked this week with Pat Wolfe, administrative assistant to the Kansas Union, about the satellite union proposal.
TO CUT COSTS, the task force discussed the possibility of cutting the square footage of the satellite union. The original proposal called for a 40,000 square foot, three-level
Wigner said the first plans for the new union were drawn in 1988. In 1974, the development of a computerized Development (CPLRD) was formed and decided to do a survey, called the College Union Evaluation Systems (CUES), which would be included in a satellite union, he said.
structure the task talked about cutting the union to 20,000 square feet.
Ed Rolfs, task force chairman, said he thought the larger structure should be built. Because of high construction costs, it would be more economical to build the larger building now than to add on to a smaller building later. he said.
IN COMMITTEE hearings last week, representatives of the Kansas Tobacco, Candy and Vendors Association testified that the cigarette industry shouldn't be linked to a specific allocation of tax receipts.
Because of Wandotte County court cases dealing with contraband carried across the state line, the committee included an amendment so that vehicles carrying more than 50 cigarette packs (5 cartons) would be subject to seizure.
One possible alternative that could cut costs, he said, would be to leave some areas or one level of the union unfinished, to be used for University storage space.
SHARON GREY, Lawrence junior, gave report from Marritt Sankee, director of U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Grey said the original proposal called for 9,700 square feet of food service facilities. This would be 24.5 per cent of a 40,000-square-foot facility with possible seating capacity of 385 persons.
Also removed from the bill was a provision that would have decreased the allowance given dealers for stamping the tax on packages.
There is a trend away from the concept of fast foods from vending machines, she said, and a multikitchen service with a central kitchen for possible alternative to the vending machines.
Grey said Scheetz emphasized that food service equipment should be geared for efficiency and designed to be moved or adapted to changing food service demands.
GREY SAID food areas should be as physically attractive as possible, with windows designed to make the eating areas appear larger.
Instead, the committee will ask the Senate Ways and Means Committee to introduce a bill that would provide state funding allocations for Med Center research.
Grey also said that small, private alcove dining areas were being considered in addition to evening and "after-the-game" facilities and staff members.
The task force is considering cutting
many of the extra services that were originally proposed. It also is considering the omission of outside terraces and the introduction of large formal restaurant and branch library.
But the task force looked favorably at an expanded banking facility and a fireplace
The task force must have its final report submitted to the Student Senate by May 5.
Gear said that, in addition to a new bill, a line item for Med Center research would possibly be included with other University of Kargas requests in House Bill 2928.
GAAR SAI that it wasn't good to set up a myrid of special revenue funds, but that the Med Center research would become a natural magnet for additional revenue such as government aid and private research funds.
S. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, said the tax wouldn't be any more unreasonable than liquor taxes for liquor park or park areas or memorial parks of parks and other recreational areas.
“It's hard to oppose the bill concep-
tion,” Booth said. “If cigarette tax causes these problems, let's use the tax to help them.”
Descent of Mt. McCollum
The KU Mountain Climbing Club has a problem in being located in Kansas—a lack of mountains. They must make do with what they have. Mark Miller, Hutchinson senior, made use yesterday of the vertical east face of McCollum Hall, rappelling nine floors to the ground.
Concert, services mark decennial
Staff Writer
Rv ANNE SIGMAN
For 10 years a grey concrete structure has stood on the northwest corner of 15th and Iowa, sometimes filled with the sound of students singing, other times brightened by the lights of midnight masses and many years of worship by students of several faiths.
Paul Manz, organ recitalist, will give a "Recital and Hynn Festival" at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont, Manz, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts on the Reuter organ in the church. The University Lutheran Church, which is
The building is the University Lutheran Church, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with an organ concert, study and workshopers' workshop and a Celebration Day.
sponsoring the concert, will charge no admission but will take an offering.
THE WORKSHIPERS' Workshop May I will be offered to local churches to teach the planning of innovative worship, the Rev. Mr. Norman Steffen, one of the two University Lutheran Church pastors, said Tuesday.
Students are planning a unique Celebration Day church service, he said. The service, scheduled for May 2, will include music, recitals, recorders, flutes and a string bass.
Other 10-year anniversary activities involve several study groups, on which consideration has been made of the statements made by an interdenominational group about Christian humanism,
ANOTHER PROGRAM, "Unity of Faith and Dignity," be at noon during the
Fridays of Lent in Dunster Chapel, he said,
was sponsored by several campanile ministries.
Steffen said the church had just finished a Bible study series with Richard Jeske and Ian Bardwell.
The University Lutheran Church sponsors other community services as well, Steffen said. Students can always be found studying in our library and our first annual finals the church provides free coffee.
Last semester, the church raised money to help a bandicapped graduate student, Shirley Heinz, Greely, Colo., purchase a hydraulic lift, Steffen said. A benefit raised $500 to provide the down payment for the lift which Heinz has had since December.
ANOTHER SOCIAL service is the Summer Teens Employment program which helps young people to find employment.
periences for 65 to 70 young people every summer. he said.
The Emergency Service council was begun by a Lutheran graduate student in social welfare about three years ago, he began training the clergy of University Lutheran Church, along with other churches in the community, worked strongly in the program, which helped those affected by the welfare cut, Steffen said. It is not clear when the cut, said, when welfare again was changed.
The Rape Victim Support Service has an office in the church. he said.
SOME STUDENTS who attend the church are involved with a campus religious group, the World Hunger Action Coalition, Steffen said. The group gives out information about the world hunger crisis, he said, and stimulates involvement in Bread for the
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Experts probe marijuana's physical, mental effects
(Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series examining marijuana use by University of Kansas students. Today's story looks at debate on the effects of marijuana.)
By BRUCE SPENCE
Controversy over whether the use of maryjana is harmless has been going on steadily during the past decade.
The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse has tried to place the health and social effects of the use of marijuana into a realistic perspective, the fourth Department of Health, Education and Welfare report to Congress on "Marijuana and Health" reported in 1974.
Studies indicate that marijuana both causes and doesn't cause a variety of physical, psychological changes.
THE REPORT included more recent studies than the first three reports. These studies dealt with three areas of concern: male sex hormone levels, female sex hormone levels, and effects on fundamental cell metabolism. The report called for additional research in those areas but said there was no clinical evidence to indicate that any differences were significant.
Recent allegations concerning the effects of marijuana on health have appeared in scientific studies.
-Smoking marijuana permanently damages the brain and ages it prematurely.
- Smoking marijuana lowers the body's resistance to infectious diseases and cancer.
- Smoking marjuana increases the likelihood of birth defects and hereditary diseases.
-Smoking marijuana may lead to sterility or impotence or both among men.
TWO STUDIES, however, may answer some of those challenges or resolve one of the long-standing issues.
Smoking marijuana reduces motivation.
One of the studies, begun in Jamaica in June 1970 but only recently published, was commissioned by the National Institute of Mental Health. The study involved more than 2,000 Jamaicans, who live in a country where up to 75 per cent of the working-class population have used marjana as a daily custom
- Smoking marjuana causes precancerous changes in the lung cells and other lung damage.
a main reason cited for studies there was that a long-term consequences of using marijuana could be significant.
In Jamaica, the report says, marjiana is used in many ways. It is smoked, brewed as a tea, chewed and used in cooking, and it is an important element of folk medicine and superstition.
Researchers there found heavy smoking of a
much stronger variety of marijuana than most people smoke in the United States.
The report states that makes them, who smoked before and during work, increased energy output as well as thoughts about the job at hand after drug intake. The men smoked about seven joints a day.
USE OF MARJUJANA there wasn't found to be related to crime or the use of hard drugs, although few were available or affordable. The study did note, however, a psychological dependency when the smokers were asked to give up marijuana during the clinical studies.
The study's clinical tests examined 30 male marijuana smokers and 30 nonsmokers and reported few adverse effects and "no significant physical abnormality" in 28 of the 30 smokers.
X-rays of the lungs of both groups were found to be normal except for some scarring of the lungs in one of the nonmothers. However, impaired lung function was not assessed, whether tobacco or marijuana, the report said.
Chromosomes of the marjuana smokers were also found to be in good condition. They showed slightly fewer abnormalities than the control group, but the difference wasn't statistically significant.
Physical dependence, brain damage and psychosis weren't found to be related to marijuana
THE REPORT also says that examination about
regularity and continuity of employment and the frequency and nature of job changes showed no significant differences between smokers and nonsmokers.
The Costa Rican study, completed last late year, appears to support the Jamaican finders.
The Costa Rican study also indicated no physical differences between users and nonusers, except that users averaged about seven pounds in body weight and tended to have bloodhot eyes. No difference in the levels of testosterone, a male sex hormone, was observed in the characteristics could be found by researchers.
Mike Storms, assistant professor of psychology, uses the Jamaican report when he says the effects of marijuana are nil on motivation, certain hormone levels and psychological health. That report, he says, totally debunks many earlier conclusions about margarita drugs with a variety of harmful effects.
So how does marijuana work on the body?
STORMS SAYS there are only two physical effects of mitral annulus, an increase in the heart rate and pressure.
According to Storms, marijuana probably works the way it does because of effects produced by suggestion—an "active placebo" concept. The brain creates a new sense of reality someone feels better after taking an ineffective
sugar pill that the doctor tell him will make him feel better.
"The word 'active' is tagged on to that to reflect the fact that marjana does have some noticeable psychological effects—namely that it dries out her hair, but you rather specific physical senations," he said.
"Those effects themselves don't directly change your mental function, don't directly cause the problems you have. And tells you it's working. And that magnifies the placebo effect, the suggestions of what to expect."
WHAT A PERSON gets from smoking marijuana, Storms says, is exactly what that person expects to get. The person who smokes the first time with a group of experienced smokers will tell him what to do, and it can be much different experience from the person who initially fires marijuana alone in a room.
"that's why in the 1960s," he said, "maybe marijuanna was a more dangerous drug psychologically, because in the 80s people expected marijuanna to do bad things for them. They expected marijuanna to make them very paranoid; they expected marijuanna to interfere with their driving skills; they would scare people back out in the early- or mid-'80s when people were smoking for the first time.
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