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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Lawrence, Kansas
*Comparison of Topera rests in one of the painting studios after performing during the opera house at the Visual Arts building. He is a member of "The Lemming Family," a charity*
Vol. 88, No.125
The University of Kansas
After the act
Monday, April 10. 1978
Spending limit deletes funding
BvGENELINN
Staff Writer
KU-Y, the oldest student organization at the University of Kansas, was axed from Student Senate budget recommendations Friday as two committee members struggled to keep their recommendations within limits set by the Senate.
The Senate's Student Services Committee had to cut the $68,178 requested by 16 groups to $30,590 and the Academic Affairs Comms group to $29,298 requested by 26 groups to $9,077.
The Student Services Committee cut of KU-Y after four other groups already had been denied funds and deep cuts had been made in the other organizations' requests.
KU-Y, A GROUP with roots in the YMCA
However, the committee voted to ask that KU-Y and two other groups be supported by unallocated funds when the Senate meets April 11 and 12 to approve, review or refuse recommendations made by Senate committees.
Unallocated funds consist mainly of students enrolled in groups in a fiscal year and of excess activity fees collected when the number of students enrolled at KU exceeds the number of students enrolled at LSU.
and YWCA, has programs, that try to combat racism, sexism and "agreeism."
The services committee also decided to ask that another group whose request was eliminated, raise money by selling the pages rather than giving them away.
The People's Yellow Pages lists information about restaurants and what is stocked in the KIU information center.
The committee cut most of the requests reluctantly.
"I feel like a criminal," one committee member said as requests were being sliced for the third or fourth time late in the evening meeting.
In its fight to cut requests enough to In the Senate's limit, the committee decided not to fund such items as film festivals might be funded by another campus spur.
That move particularly affected the Native American Alliance and MECHA, a group that represents Mexican-American students at KU.
THE NATIVE American Alliance had
special projects. MECHA had requested $15 to
MECHA had requested $15 to
Groups such as KU Campus Veterans that
had large amounts of money still unspent in their budgets from this fiscal year also were
Campus Veterans, which has more than
150 employees and a budget, had its
proposal approved by the 62nd floor.
(AP)
After the committee had sliced the requests down to the Senate's limit, the members passed a resolution that protested the fact that the amount the committee could allocate this year was about $4,000 less than last year's amount.
Part of the resolution stated that it was wrong to cut the amount the committee could give when another committee had more funding or a Frisbee club and the KUHang Gliding Club.
In action by the Academic Affairs Committee, a recommendation was made to give the Kansas Defender Project $2,250 for the next fiscal year. Senate funding after the next fiscal year
"THE DEFENDER Project is very worthwhile, but it should be funded by the University," Susan Reger, committee chairman, said yesterday.
About 24 KU law school students participate in the project for academic credit.
mates at the Kansas Correctional Institution for Women, Kansas State Penitentiary and the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth.
The Academic Affairs Committee also cut requests made by two groups for money to recruit minority students to come to KU and would not fund recruiting, although it would not fund recruiting in the future.
"Recruturing enhances the prestige of the University and brings in new students, and we think the University probably should fund it," Regier said.
The two groups are Black tests, a black architectural students' club, and SCeRs a community college.
IN ADDITION TO Academic Affairs and Student Services, four other Senate committees held budget hearings last week and requested recommendations to the Senate this week.
One Student Services Committee member taded to take all of last week's request.
"We thought maybe we were taking the hearts out of some of the programs, but what they really thrill on is enthusiasm," she said. "We members stay active, the groups will be okay."
Budget cuts split in compromise
By TIM SHEEHY
Staff Writer
The Kansas Legislature gave its approval Friday to a conference committee report concerning the fiscal 1979 operating budgets for the six Regents schools in Kansas.
The committee report represents a compromise between amendments made to the bill by the House and the Senate. The final draft of the bill now moves to Gov. Robert F. Bennett for his approval or rejection.
Major changes in the bill were made in the areas of women's athletics and student salaries. In both cases the comprise was a tax on sports, including reintroduction of funds made by the House.
The conference committee made one unexpected change in the bill. They reinstated $125,000 in planning money for the renovation of Lindley Hall.
The money was not part of Bennett's original recommendation but was added by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The House later deleted the money, only to have it reinserted in the conference committee.
Liquor-by-the-drink bill marks Legislature's year
By TIM SHEEHY Staff Writer
TOPEKA-The 1978 Kansas Legislature reached its first adjournment late Friday after a deadlock in the debate.
The surprise came when both the Senate and House passed a bill carrying an amendment that would institute liquor by the drink in Kansas.
The Legislature will reconvene for three days April 24, 25 and 30 to clean up unfinished business and to take action on vetoes. Robert F. Bennett has made.
The bill was passed quickly by both the
The liquor bill would allow restaurants that derive more than 50 percent of their revenue from food sales to serve liquor by the drink.
However, supporters of the bill overlooked a state statute that prohibits retailers from buying liquor for resale. In many states, lawsuits against the right to sell liquor but not buy it.
BUT AN AMENDMENT was attached to another liquor-released bill late Friday that would allow the retailers to sell liquor to the restrooms that met the 50 percent requirement.
House and the Senate. It now awaits Bennett's approval, rejection or can simply be ignored and it will become law automatically.
State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, who proposed the original amendment, said that he was surprised the bill passed the House and Senate so easily Thursday night but that supporters were very organized Friday when the purchase problem was rectified.
BENNETT HAS NOT said whether he will veto the bill but he has expressed his displeasure at the way in which the bill was carried through the Legislature. Bennett said he did not approve of such 'midnight action' matched to bills in the final days of the session.
State Rep. John H. Vogel, R-Lawrence, voted against the bill because he said the amendment had been hastily attached and had not been discussed openly.
Several legislators expressed doubt as to whether the new bill was constitutional, considering the prohibition of open saloons in the Kansas constitution. State Rep.
The bill states that each county would vote on the bill, although it is not clear yet whether they would vote on whether to prohibit them from drink or whether to prohibit its adoption.
"in this game I think you ought to play fair," he said, " don't think the did with that."
The House sent to Bennett a bill that would approve $6.2 million for the renovation of Watson Library. No one dissented in the vote.
Denny Burgess, R-Warnego, "I can guarantee if this passes it will be a long wait."
THE SENATE passed and sent to Bennett a House version of a bill that would institute a presidential primary in Kansas the first Tuesday of April.
Prison campsite switched from Clinton
The Legislature also took action for this session on a number of other bills.
Candidates would receive delegates to the national convention in proportion to the number of votes they received in the primary, and nominated to a candidate only on the first ballot.
A provision of the bill states that the
shall contain space for write-in
candidates.
The state would reimburse the counties for the cost of the election and a candidate to attend a public meeting.
Clinton Lake area residents who oppose a prison honor camp near their homes can join the effort.
Staff Writer
In a surprise move Friday, the last day before the first 1978 adjournment, the Kansas Legislature decided to finance the creation of the camp at Toronto instead of at the expected and controversial Clinton Lake site.
By JEFF TEVIS
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, said the action was peculiar.
HOWEVER, THE ACTION is tentative until the end of the month when the Legislature regulates.
Senate Minority Leader Jim Parrish said Saturday that several senators had doubts
"People act a little batty near the end, you know," he said.
The proposed site at Clinton Park, four miles west of Lawrence, has created a lot of opposition from residents of the area who are interested in living near their families or property.
Parrish said that the senators said they thought that two camps might be too much for one town, even though the first camp was been popular among Toronto residents.
about putting the camp at Toronto because it was currently the site of the only existing
VOICES OF opposition also have been raised by land developers who hope to sell lots near the scenic lake. They say that a development area would hurt prices and marketability.
Friday's action, which occurred during a debate over a budget bill for the state Department of Corrections, was initiated by State Rep. Danny Burgesz, R-Waumeen.
Burgess surprised his fellow lawmakers when he asked for someone to volunteer their home district as a prison honor camp site.
rate of repeating offenders, the fewest walk-
rates and almost no offences among
people.
State Rep. Patrick Hurley, D-Leaseworth, and honor camps did not pose a threat to residents.
The House, which before Friday had been unable to find a district willing to take on the camp, quickly passed the bill on to the Senate.
AFTER READING a list of all of the main lakes in the state, Burgess finally got a reply from State Rep. C. Fred Lorentz, R.I., district includes the state lake at Toronto.
Bennett originally had recommended an increase in funding of $311,000 for women's athletics. The Senate cut that figure to only $46,000.
STATE REP. George Wingert, D-Ottawa, said the conflict over funding for women's athletics was solved mainly by splitting the State Repertoire into separate mentions and those made by the Senate.
UNDER THE compromise reached by the conference committee, $425,000 is allocated for funding student salaries. That figure is less than half of the federal minimum wage reaches $2.90.
The House reinstated Bennett's full recommendation but could not get the Senate approval.
the final draft of the bill, compared with a
$5,000 increase that they would have
had if the bill had been approved.
Committee recommended enough funds to pay the current number of employees $2.46
The House Ways and Means Committee in turn reinstated half of Bennett's figure, which would be an increase of $155,000 in funding.
"I think this will be an issue for years to come—until they feel they have caught up with it."
State Sen. Paul Hesh, R-Wichita, said he thought that funding for women's athletics would be worth it.
Under the final version prepared by the conference committee, funding for women's athletics will be increased by $90,000. The committee recommendation represents a comparison to the $40,000 increase Senate recommendation to the $150,000 recommended by the House.
Funding for women's athletics at KU will increase by slightly more than $21,000 under
Bennett recommended funds that would be sufficient to keep student salaries in line with the minimum wage increase of $2.90 an hour in 1979, but the Senate Ways and Means
The conference committee made no changes in the capital improvement funds to be used for Summerfield Hall, Robinson Gymnasium, the construction of a new power plant and the renovation of Marvin Hall.
The conflict over funding for student salaries focused on whether the state should continue paying students the increased minimum wage or a lesser figure. The state is not required to pay students the federal minimum wage.
1 "DON'T THINK the women fared too badly, considering the case they presented to us."
Also remaining intact through conference committee action was the 60 percent graduation tution fee waiver for those students who work as teaching assistants.
Rabin hecklers to be disciplined
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
and DARBARA JENSI Staff Writers
Disciplinary action will be taken against participants in the disruption of a speech Thursday night by Yitzhak Rabin, former prime minister of Israel.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said last night that disciplinary measures to
be taken against KU students, faculty or
staff who could be identified would range
from a verbal or written warning to expulsion from KU.
Shankel said some of the protesters were known to KU administrators and also could be identified by photographs taken during the speech by the KU police.
The police reportedly removed one or two protesters but no groups of protesters were expelled from Hoch Auditorium, where the disruption occurred.
"MR. RABIN asked us not to intervene and not to remove people from the
Dykes said he thought it was too early to specifically determine what type of action the university would take against the protesters.
auditiorium," Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said.
KU officials think some protestors at the speech were not KU students, Shankel said. Shankel said he thought some of the protesters were from Lawrence and other cities. KU can take no action against those protestors, he said.
After protesters disrupted a class being taught by Shockley, who theorized that
However, disciplinary action taken against the student demonstrators would be supported by the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, according to William Scott, AAUP president.
SCOTT SAID that AAUP would take the same public stand they took during the disruption of the 1975 visit of William Shockley, Nobel Prize winner.
blacks were genetically inferior to whites, AAUP took a stand that supported the right of freedom of speech, Frances Ingemann, AAUP member said.
She said AAUP had supported disciplinary action taken against those who disrupted Shockley's class.
AAUP's statement read:
most members of the academic community adhere to the principles of free speech.
There had not been any formal discussion of action against protesters before the election.
Dissent does not include the right to disrupt classes or to shout down speakers, but it also does not precedent of sort established at this university. Thus, it is important that the potential for such events as those surroundings and appearance be protected and prevented.*
"We had hoped there wouldn't be this kind of disturbance inside the auditorium," he said.
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Bomb halt causes concern
BONN, West Germany--Germany is still concerned that President Jimmy Carter's decision Friday to halt production of the neutron bomb will endanger the continued safety of U.S. European allies. Pravda, meanwhile, called Carter's move political, saying the development would continue. See story page two.
Humphrey to go domestic
ST. PAUL., Minn. — Muriel Humphrey, who stepped briefly from behind the shadow of her late husband, Hubert H. "Huber" Humphrey, to return to the privacy of her family. She told fellow members of the Democratic Farmer-Labor party at a fundraising dinner that she would not run for the four nominations in the presidential election would spend her time campaigning for party candidates.
Weather . . .
Showers are likely today, according to the National Weather Service. The high temperature should be 60 today and tomorrow. The probability of rain should drop tonight as skies clear and the temperature dips to 40.
Guerrilla attack reported
TEL AVIV—Army and police units yesterday searched the Israeli coastline south of Tel Aviv to check unconfirmed reports that Palestinian guerrilla might have made a raid on the military base at Rishon Le-Zion, five miles south of Tel Aviv, and commanded a vehicle of the Agrecox Agricultural Corps officials said the report might have been a false alarm.
VWs now made in U.S.
PITTSBURGH-Volkwagen will begin production of its automobiles in the United States today. The first of Wolkwagen's U.S.-produced Rabbit models will be rolling off the assembly line today at the almost completed New Stanton plant, 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. About 1,200 people are employed at the plant. See page two figure.
Locally . . .
The KU baseball team trounced Kansas State this weekend, taking four games from the Wildcats. KU stopped the Wildcats' 7-2 and 11-0 at Lawrence Saturday and 7-13 and 11-1 at Lawrence. The Jayhawks 'record now is 1-6-1. See page story 61.