Harper says apathy issue affected funding
The Kansas Board of Regent's decision to partially fund KU women's athletics through an increase in student fees is more important than a better carpenter, student body president, said Saturday.
"This is a basic struggle between student government and the Regents," Harper said. Of the $10.70 proposed increase in student fees, $2.40 was to go toward the women's athletic program.
That increase is expected to produce $68,000. The proposed budget for women's athletics during fiscal year 1979 was $271,053.
Harpel proper the Regents that KU student senators had overwhelmingly voted in April 1977 to cut funding for women's athletics from the Senate's budget beginning in fiscal 2013.
"The Regents are wary of the student government process because very few students have a good understanding."
"THEY DON'T think the student officials really represent the students.
"For example, I can get elected with 2,500 votes to govern a student body of more than 23,000. Our hands are tied because of the noninvolvement of students."
contribute to TX IX of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's federal regulations, which was enacted to prevent discrimination for opportunity for men and women must be equal.
KU had requested $375,284 for women's athletics from the Legislature, in addition to his own expenses.
However, the Regents, who determine KU's proposed budget for the Legislature, cut Chancellor Arche D. Rykes request of $375,248 for women's athletics to $191,048.
Dykes made an attempt during the final hearing of KU's proposed budget to recommend that the Legislature completely fund women's athletics.
If Dykes' proposed budget had been accepted by the Regents and the Legislature, the student fee increase for women's statistics could have been avoided. Harper said.
THE REGENTS overruled Dykes recommendation, however, and voted unanimously that students should partially fund women's athletics.
Harper said that student body presidents at each of the seven Board of Regents' institutions had supported the KU Senate's decision not to fund women's athletics.
"This was the test case for all the universities," he said.
Harper protested the timing of the University's announcement of the proposed fee increase, which was after the Kansan stoned printing for the semester break.
"They announced the fee one day after the Kansan stepped printing so that there would be fewer of them."
$34,000, the amount the Student Senate eliminated from their budget for women's sports.
Harper said that the University considered a cut in funding for the program of
However, he said, the University would risk a TIX injury by doing so.
The Regents informally accepted a recommendation by Harper that Student Senate surplus budget funds from less than 50 percent of the $50 fee in crease (for the year 1992 semester).
HARPER SAID that another alternative to the fee increase was to reallocate Student Senate funds, despite opposition from the Senate.
He said that the reallocation had never been tried by the University and speculated that such action would have created student outrage.
Harper said that the Student Senate had a surplus fund of between $45,000 to $51,000 from fiscal 1978 created by an unexpected large spring enrollment.
He said that the fee increase could be reduced to 50 cents if the surplus was used.
The surplus included student (ees
designated for the Student Senate)
HARPER said the amount of surplus funds could be calculated until September.
Currently there is no plan for reducing the fee for Fall 1978.
Harper said that part of the recreational fund, which pays the operation fees for Robinson Gymnasium and Allen Field, includes the sports of athletics the beginnin in the fall 1997 semester.
The use of recreational funds to reduce the student fee would require a vote of next month.
However, Harper said he did not know those funds would be replaced if used to pay the bills.
"But I would like to see the student activity fee used so that as many students as possible can participate."
There are 16,000 students who use the recreational facilities and only 200 in school.
HARPER SAID that because student senators had refused to pay for women's athletics, risking violation of Title IX, the elimination of the recreational fund may be
"It's either that or face a lawsuit, and I'm not sure that 'worse.' he said.
Harper also recommended to the Regents that the proposed budget for women's athletics be reduced. But the recom- ment was not discussed at the Regents board meeting.
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The Regents will make their proposals to the Kansas Legislature for funding of the seven Kansas Board of Regents' institutions in September.
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Harper said that he thought it was doubtful the Legislature would approve the Regents' total budget request for women's athletics.
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Lawrence, Kansas
vinyl and polychromed with oil paints, is currently displayed in the 20th Century Gallery on the fourth floor of the Helen Museum.
Monday June 19,1978
Perplexing people
A museum visitor takes a closer look at the lifelike figures created by Dune Hanson, "Couple Shopping," which is cast in
Police declare impasse; session to study conflicts
By DAVID LINK Staff Writer
Labor negotiations between Lawrence policemen and the city have been deferred at an impasse by representatives of the labor unions, Gary Sammon, spokesman for the union.
TALKS BETWEEN the city and police negotiators concerning a two-year work agreement, covering 1979 and 1980, broke off May 23 when the police negotiators rejected the city's offer of a 5.5 percent annual wage increase.
"We have a letter drafted to the city declaring an impass that should be in their hands sometime around the first of this week," Sampson said yesterday.
A provision in last year's agreement states that if a new agreement had not been reached by June 15, the representatives of the City Commission could study session before the City Commission.
The session must be held before July 1.
The City Commission has final responsibility for resolving the dispute, according to the terms of the agreement.
The process for resolving a stalemate has come to be called the impasse procedure.
Sampson pinpointed the salary issue as the essential disagreement between the two
Regents approve budget increase
An increase of 11.7 percent in the KU budget for fiscal year 1800 was authorized by the Board of Regents Friday. The increase was 5.3 percent less than KU had
KU administrators had requested a 17 percent increase, representing $10,518,326 in total operating expenses for the three months. The feature was to pay $7.6 million of that amount.
The Regents also approved a $10.70 increase in student fees. The increase will raise tuition for Kansas residents from the 1977-78 school year to $535.10 per year.
The fee increases included $1.50 a semester for women's athletics, $7.50 a semester for student health fees and $1.70 a semester to improve the KU bus system.
A 20.9 percent increase for the KU Medical Center was authorized by the Regents. KUMC and requested a budget of 33.3 percent increase of 33.3 percent from last year.
REGENT GLEE SMITH of Larned explained to the board that most of the Med student fell into this category.
necessary for moving into the new hospital on the Kansas City, Kan. campus.
KU's athletic program suffered the most dramatic budget cuts by the Regents. The University's original request of $222,430, $757,284 of which was intended for the women's athletics program, was cut in half by the Regents.
The Regents have yet to decide the total budget they will propose to the Kansas Legislature in September. However, further cuts in individual programs are expected and should be announced sometime next week. KU administrators said.
Although no new building projects were approved, the Regents authorized about $11.1 million for partial payment of projects in construction or already have been planned.
THE REGENTS also approved a
$2,290,000 loan for the renovation of
Washington University.
The biggest projects were the construction of a solid waste steam plant costing an estimated $13,474,000 and an estimated $11,500,000.
Each of the seven Board of Regents institution's chief administrators received salary increase and an increase in percent increase from $59,000 last year to $60,000 for fiscal 1979. Dykes received both the largest total salary increase and the largest percentage increase.
The new schedule would impose higher fines for all on-campus parking and traffic violations and eliminate reduced parking fees for a second car in the name of one resistant
THE CHANGES will become effective this fall and are expected to generate about $35,500, which would be used to pay for campus parking lot repairs and expansion, parking service salaries, supplies and other expenses of the parking services department.
- A new Lawrence campus parking fee and fine schedule. Permits will be available for mopeds and a special permit rate for car pools will be implemented.
Also approved by the Regents:
Dykes said the agreement would produce the first exchange program that KU had.
- A cultural exchange agreement with the National University of Tsukuba, Japan.
The agreement would allow 15 KU undergraduate and graduate students to receive Japanese language training and study in liberal arts and sciences in Japan.
The state is undertaking extensive testing of the panels to determine whether to sue the contractor, Casson Construction Co. of Topeka.
- A $ 5,000 appropriation for further testing of some cracked concrete panels on Kuling 164.
The cost of replacing the 17 cracked panels might be as much as $100,000.
Warren Corman, Regents facilities officer,
said Friday.
A DECISION on whether the state will file against Cannon Construction Co. is
The state is withholding final payment of $150,000 for the $ 9 million building until a
Student pay remains below minimum wage
- purchase of a $3,000 three-wheel
car and traffic control and traffic
and a $5,000 car for the
Despite a last minute appeal from student leaders Friday, the Kansas Board of Regents refused to make provisions for the inquest and requested requests of the seven Reents' schools.
KU student employees will pocket 20 cents an hour less than most other off-campus minimum wage workers by 1880 if KU's fiscal year 1880 budget request is approved as it now stands by the Kansas Legislature.
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Staff Writer
By law the Legislature must see to it that students are paid at least 85 percent of the
The proposed budget would set student wages at $2.90 for fiscal year 1980. Federal minimum wage becomes $3.10 in January 1980.
In their decision, the Regents said that
there was little hope that the Legislature would approve the fiscal year 1980 budget requests to keep student salaries in line with the minimum wage because the Legislature had flatly refused to do so for fiscal year 1979.
A BILL signed into law last month authorizes salaries of $2.56 an hour for students, although the minimum wage currently is $2.65. KU has been paying, according to Keith Nicher, University director of business affairs, said last month. However, when the minimum wage increases to $2.90 in January 1979, the university will receive will remain the same. Nicher said.
They may lag as much as 45 cents behind the minimum wage when it becomes $3.10 an hour in January 1980 unless the Legislature approves KU's budget requests.
The University cannot afford to make up
"It leaves us out in the cold as far as lob-
ers are made, as far as giving it a lot more
credit."
"WE DON'T have adequate resources to pick up the differences," Dykes said after meeting.
the disparities otherwise, according to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Dykes and the Regents agreed that some students' jobs could be jeopardized if wages were increased to minimum wage levels and approved by the Legislature. Earlier Friday morning, Regent Chairman Walter Hirsten stated that, as a tradeoff for approvals, any increases, the Legislature might require a stock in the total number of students working.
"Our concern is maintaining job opportunities for students."
STUDENT LEADERS were disappointed to the Regents' refusal to endure wage increase.
"We suffered a great defeat a few minutes ago," Mike Harper, KU student body
president, said immediately after the Regents' decision.
Although Harper said he was aware that the chances of obtaining student wage increases from the Legislature were slight in any case, he also said that there were few chances for the increases without the sanction of the Reems.
Student leaders lost their appeal for the Regents' sanction because the Regents see no clear-cut constituency behind the student leaders. Harper said,
A PAID lobbyist for students, Hannes Zacharias of the Associated Students of Kansas, summed up the impact of the Regents' decision Friday this way:
"It came down primarily to the fact that they don't even want to give us an increase that would match the cost-of-living increase," Sampson said.
The policemen have asked for an 11 percent pay increase in 1979, which they said would match increases in the cost of living.
"After we made our counterproposal at the May 23 session, they walked out and notified me the next day that their group had been forced to declare a impasse." Burt said.
Sampson said his group had made several overtures to the city since May 23 to reopen the talks, but Kevin Burt, director of city employee relations, disputed that claim.
1" informed them that an impasse could not be declared before June 15 and asked Mr. Mills to reconsider the decision.
SAMPSON SAID that the policemen's union assumed that the city had made its own decisions.
However, Burt said he was awaiting a response to the city's last offer and was unable to answer.
"We've just been waiting for the June 15 impasse date to come around because we're unable to deal with the city staff," Sampson said.
"We made the last offer at the May 23 session," he said, "and we have been looking for a counterproposal. We have received no response." The company expects an offer except that we could make another offer.
'And I don't view that as realistic. It's just not true that we have turned down of-
fires to reopen the talks. We'd be more than happy to listen to counterproposals."
SAMPSON SAID that his group had not been able to deal effectively with the city's personnel staff and that it hoped to be able to at least bring its position to the attention of the public when they met with the City Commission.
"We felt as if we were the only ones doing any talking at each session," Sampson said.
Burt expressed more hope concerning the city's negotiations with the firefighters, saying he did not think the impasse would have been used to reach an agreement with that group.
While negotiations between the city and police appear to be at an impasse, talks between the city and the firefighters' union are continuing.
Representatives to the firefighters' negotiations are scheduled to meet again
"Wednesday's session with the firemen was the most productive we've had so far." Burt said, "and I continue to be optimistic about the prospects for an agreement."
The firefighters' chief negotiator, Al Samuels, said during a break in Wednesday's bargaining session that the imple-mentation structure would only be used if all else failed.
"It would be foolish for us to declare an impasse now," he said.
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New fire chief appointed
An expert in fire protection and firefighters' training programs was named Friday as the new chief of the Lawrence fire department, the 38th to be bertger, who retires at the end of this month.
The new chief, James A. McSwan of Bethany, Kella, will join the department June 28 and work with Kasberger before returning to work, according to City Manager Brad Watson.
Keyin Burt, director of city employee
relations, said yesterday that he did not think the appointment of a new chief would have any influence on the city's talks with the local firefighters' union.
"That should make no difference whatsoever," Burt said. "We should be done by the men."
McSwan, 34, now works with the Oklahoma State University Technical Institute in Oklahoma City as an associate professor in the municipal fire protection program.
Tornado upsets boat
POMONA (AP) -- At least 14 persons were killed when a showboat capsized Saturday night after a tornado suddenly struck.
One person was missing and thought to be dead and 14 were injured. There were 59 passengers aboard.
At least six persons were trapped inside the capsized showbowl, Whipporwil. Their bodies were found when rescue workers were working to right the boat just before midnight Saturday. When the boat was righted, the only part of the boat that showed signs of substantial damage was a canopy over its upper deck.
The bodies of three other persons were recovered later, and divers discovered the bodies of five last night.
The 100-foot-long boat was about 100 yards offshore when the tornado hit about 4 p.m. Saturday. Ben Streater, manager of Vassar State Park, on the lake's shore, said the boat was being towed by a rescue boat.
THE AREA was under a severe tundster watch when the tornado struck. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning after authorities reported that the boat had been struck, according to Ron Crandall of the Topeka office. Crandall said the tornado was not sighted on radar.
Engineer Aaron Craig told William Tilman, Osage County deputy, that about 15 minutes after the cruise started, the tornado suddenly appeared on the water. He then opened the door to the cabin.
"There was no time at all." he told Tillman.
Of the 14 injured persons, at least two were listed in serious condition at a Topeka hospital, and twoothers were hospitalized in Emporia.
James Gibson, 19, a member of the Lakeside Players, who were staging the showboat musical, said the passengers were being served dinner when the storm struck.
"I was down below," he said. "The boat is two layers. Above is where the passengers eat. I walled out the food. We serve meals first and start the show, usually around 8 PM."
"I saw spray of water. I saw that and I wondered what it was. We closed the door to the galley because the wind started blowing. Next thing, the boat was tipping. I said, "The boat's tipping over," and grabshed for the door. The next thing I know was that water was gushing in. The boat overturned and went completely upside down."