University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 9, 1975
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Drive started for ticket-subsidy referendum
A drive to collect enough signatures to make the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation's (KUAC) $147,000 student ticket subsidy a referendum issue in the spring began at last night's basketball game.
Dave Shapiro, student senate sports committee chairman, said he thought last night's effort at the KU-Notre Dame basketball game awaits a profitable one.
"I think we got a good start," he said.
"The table was crowded almost the whole time and I think we got about 400 signatures."
Stapha he planned to have tables set up to obtain more signatures at Thursday's and Saturday's games and to begin circus events through the organized living groups.
According to Shapiro, about 2,200 student
signatures must be obtained before the
admission process.
KUAC lost its student ticket subsidy a few
weeks ago, and the university's subsidy for
the subsidy for the 1977 faculty year.
Ed Rollfs, student body president, charged that the drive for the referendum was influenced by an administrator and that students participating in the petition effort were shown preference by being admitted before any other students were admitted.
Rifas said that Doug Messer, assistant athletic director, had persuaded the students to drop the satellite union from the university. He also said the petition would “confuse” the students.
be placed on the ballot by students, independent of any administrative in-
Shapiro said the original plan was not to place the two issues on the same petition, as Rofs alleged, but to set up two tables—one subdued and one subsidy and one for the satellite union.
"I fully support a wide variety of referendum questions being placed on the ballot," Rufs said. "However, they should
'He (Messer) was quick to say that he was willing to set up a table to get
signatures for the satellite union at some later date, but that to have two tables with two referencetions issues at the same time and continue the issue too much," Shapiro said.
He also said he received treatment no different than any other person or group wanting to set up a table and that he was even late in setting up.
Messer couldn't be reached for comment.
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Law wouldn't alter KU lobbying
By SHERI BALDWIN
Lobbying by the University of Kansas will not be affected by tough lobbying spending controls recommended by the Governmental Ethics Commission, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said last night. "I don't think they would affect the University," any way because we're not one of the more powerful lobbying groups," Dykes said.
In its annual report on Dec. 1 the Ethics Commission submitted to Gov. Robert F. Bennett and the 1976 Kansas Legislature the statement that no amount of expenditures by registered lobbyists,
THE COMMISSION recommended that lobbyist regulation laws be changed to more closely regulate a lobbyist's expenditures. According to the recommendation, a lobbyist who intends to spend more than $100 during the calendar year must periodically report the total amount of expenditures for lobbying, Gifts to any state officer or employee that exceed $10 would also have to be reported.
Dick Wintermorte, Alumni Association Director and KU's only registered lobbist, said "the changes would make absolutely no difference to us (KU)".
The commission also recommended that tougher regulations be established involving distribution and time payments by lobbyists. Both are methods used by lobbyists to avoid reporting accurate spending, under present regulation.
Present regulations requiring lobbies to report recipients of gifts by name don't require reporting of food and beverage provided as hospitality.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS included a provision that lobbyists be required to report amounts spent on legislators "in a hospitality setting" if the total amount spent on hospitality exceeds $50 per month. Hospitality expenditures would be reported as a gift and would name the legislative receiving the hospitality.
"We're not in Topeka very often," Wintermote said.
He said that he traveled to Topeka during legislative sessions only to deliver KU information to offices of legislators who had requested such material.
"IT'S NOT TO GO over and stand in the hall and lob it."
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provided to the legislators so they might have a better understanding of KU budget requests and programs.
"Sometimes the details are hard to understand unless we carry on a continual education process," he said.
He said that during the legislative sessions, members of the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees are annually prepared for dinner and a basketball game.
"Occasionally there are cocktail parties, Wintermuseum said," However, we'd prefer it not to be the case.
“THE COCKTAIL PARTY situation can be offensive to some people,” he said.
Wintermute said that the legislators weren't given tickets to athletic events, but must buy them. He said that as a gesture of courtesy, the legislators received season ticket information in time to purchase tickets for good seats.
This summer, chairmen of all major legislative committees visited the campus, and small legislative groups  $y$ metines to visit throughout the year, Dykes said.
Chancellor Dykes said that the largest single event for legislators last year was an annual dinner sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls.
WINTERMOTE SAID that voluntary dues to the Alumni Association created a general fund from which lobbying expenditures were taken.
"These are not alumni contributions, those go into the Endowment Association," he said.
State regulations stipulate that the Enowment Association may not become a member.
"A very low percentage, maybe two or three per cent of my time is spent with lobbying activities," Wintermorton said. "I think I've done a little the University is involved in."
Dykes said that there was no way to judge the quantity of lobbying KU is involved in as compared to the other five state educational institutions.
Wintermute said that the other institutions each do much of the same thing KI.
“It’s fair to say that the University of Kansas is located closer to Topeka and they (the legislators) are more likely to come because of that,” he said.
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TODAY: INTERSESSION REGISTRATION will continue at Window 1 in Strong Hall. Richard Ballard of the Chicago Theological Seminary will speak on "THEOLOGY AND POLITICS" at noon at United Ministries, 1204 Oread. Lakeside Studios will hold a sale and exhibition of MASTER ART PRINTS from 1 to 5 p.m. in the lobby of the Kansas Union. Yi-Fu Tuan, environmental geographer, will speak on the Kansas Union's 'ACE' at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. The FRIENDS LANGUAGES Department will speak on a lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union. THE DOUGLAS COUNTY GENEALOGICAL Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Lawrence Public Library. Fawwaz Ulaby, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Aharon Shashar, Ph.D., candidate from Jerusalem, will discuss "WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE U.N.'?" in an SUA Open Forums debate on Zionism at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Union.
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